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That's all from the BBC News at Six, so it's goodbye from me, | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
The headlines tonight: Killed by a car being pursued by police, | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
a 45-year-old pedestrian dies in Birmingham City centre. | :00:12. | :00:13. | |
The hit and run driver had been chased by police for seven miles | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
I am shocked. I live in this area. I see cars lining up and going | :00:17. | :00:26. | |
high-speed and they are raising the motorbikes everyday. | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
Also tonight: I'm at a mosque | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
in Birmingham where a multi-faith vigil is being held | :00:35. | :00:36. | |
to remember those who died in London's terror attacks. | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
Helping the homeless in Coventry, but what happens | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
All of these people are someone else's relatives and you just want | :00:42. | :00:54. | |
to care for people. Find | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
out how this cat from Spain washed and the search to reunite | :00:59. | :01:00. | |
with her owner. And with the start of | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
British Summer Time came something quite summery - | :01:05. | :01:06. | |
a return to spring though this week, An investigation's begun | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
into the death of a pedestrian, who was struck by a hit and run | :01:10. | :01:26. | |
driver after a seven mile police One of Birmingham's busiest | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
roads was closed for more than 12 hours, causing long | :01:30. | :01:37. | |
delays for motorists The Independent Police Complaints | :01:38. | :01:39. | |
Commission is examining The police are still looking | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
for the driver of the car. Normally one of the busiest routes | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
in the city closed to traffic, a tent covering the spot | :01:47. | :01:55. | |
where a 45-year-old man It happened at twenty to midnight | :01:56. | :01:57. | |
on Belgrave Middleway, paramedics worked into the small | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
hours trying to save him. The car that struck him had | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
been chased by police. After one or two hours, we could see | :02:04. | :02:17. | |
them still pushing the chest. Doing CPR. | :02:18. | :02:18. | |
The pursuit began in the north Birmingham suburb of Erdington - | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
seven miles away in the city centre the Mondeo went through a red light | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
Moments later the collision happened - the Mondeo then sped off. | :02:25. | :02:31. | |
Two police vehicles have been removed for examination. | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
Investigators from the Independent Police Complaints | :02:38. | :02:38. | |
Commission spent the morning at the scene. | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
More than 12 hours after this accident, the road is just about to | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
reopen, the hunt for the driver continues. Police are urging him to | :02:50. | :02:50. | |
give himself up. Locals say they're tired of traffic | :02:51. | :02:52. | |
speeding past their doors. Totally outrageous. I am shocked. I | :02:53. | :03:03. | |
live in this area and I see cars lining up at traffic lights going | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
high-speed and they are racing the motorbikes. You see it everyday. To | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
me, it is an accident waiting to go off. Along this road it is like a | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
racetrack. And I would hope that they would put the cameras back | :03:19. | :03:19. | |
because this would save lives. The road closure led to congestion | :03:20. | :03:21. | |
and long delays for motorists Police are appealing for witnesses - | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
specialist officers are supporting A vigil is taking place this evening | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
to remember the four victims The country remains on high | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
alert after Khalid Masood drove onto the pavement, | :03:36. | :03:43. | |
killing and injuring pedestrians, Our reporter Nicola Beckford | :03:44. | :03:45. | |
is at the Darulbarakat Mosque in Birmingham, where vigil | :03:46. | :03:52. | |
is taking place, Nicola. Yes, well, this vigil | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
has been organised by the Small Heath Multi Faith Forum | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
to pay their respects It follows on from a number | :04:01. | :04:02. | |
of vigils which took place this weekend - | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
including a demonstration that was held in Victoria | :04:07. | :04:07. | |
Square in Birmingham. Joining me now is Toby Ephraim | :04:08. | :04:16. | |
who is of the organisers. Why was it important for you to | :04:17. | :04:26. | |
organise this? It is important because we would like to pay tribute | :04:27. | :04:34. | |
to the family of the PC who died and those who were injured. The | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
community now seem to be so divided and it is very important that the | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
community comes together to see that this has nothing to do with faith | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
and the community needs to see that they can work together to remove | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
misunderstanding. You mention that the community feels divided. What is | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
the feeling in the community now? Today when you see how people look | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
on each other, whether you are Muslim or Christian or another | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
faith, today is not the time to prove our faith but what matters | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
today is to see that we understand as a human being because we are all | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
from Adam and Eve regardless of the faith we have, but we have to bear | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
in mind that we are only human and yet we have to bring the community | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
together. Birmingham has been in the spotlight following these dreadful | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
atrocities. Is there a fear that Birmingham is a hotbed of extremism? | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
What can be done to tackle this, do you think? It is very important if | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
you are in Muslim member of the community that we encourage the | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
mosques to be open for everyone. The community should have a forum like | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
this we are seeing today that people have opportunity to share their | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
views and understanding. Thank you very much indeed for joining us. One | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
man has been arrested this weekend. Another man who was arrested in | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
Birmingham is in custody. Thank you for that. | :06:01. | :06:02. | |
Police have released CCTV images of a | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
man they want to speak to in relation to the death | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
19-year old Kaydel Williams was found dead | :06:10. | :06:11. | |
A 34-year-old man was charged with manslaughter | :06:12. | :06:23. | |
and kidnap in November - but officers say they think more | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
people were involved in Kaydel's death. | :06:27. | :06:27. | |
Police are investigating after an unexploded grenade | :06:28. | :06:29. | |
was found by a removal man in the Nechells area of Birmingham. | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
Officers were called to Trevor Street after it was | :06:33. | :06:34. | |
The bomb disposal unit have removed the device for safe destruction. | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
A gun dealer from Gloucestershire has denied "deliberately smuggling" | :06:40. | :06:41. | |
hundreds of illegal firearms into the UK. | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
65-year-old Paul Edmunds is on trial for making | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
and supplying home-made bullets, which the prosecution say were found | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
at more than 90 crime scenes, including fatal shootings and a gun | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
Our reporter Ben Godfrey was at Birmingham Crown Court. | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
When Paul Edmunds was arrested in 2015, Police found three | :07:00. | :07:11. | |
separate armouries at his home in Hardwicke in Gloucestershire. | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
The prosecution say "tell tale" markings on ammunition - | :07:15. | :07:16. | |
bullet casings - found at more than 90 crime scenes since 2009 | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
were linked by ballistics experts to tools used by Edmunds, | :07:20. | :07:21. | |
They say he's a man with "almost excyclopaedic" knowledge of gun laws | :07:22. | :07:30. | |
who imported hundreds of pre-war weapons and sold them illegally. | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
He denies conspiracy to supply firearms and ammunition. | :07:36. | :07:47. | |
That he dealt in obsolete, legal guns. | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
But under-cross examination today, Edmunds admitted lying on records - | :07:52. | :07:53. | |
by incorrectly stating some of the guns he imported | :07:54. | :07:55. | |
were over 100 years old, and therefore antique. | :07:56. | :07:57. | |
Antique weapons are legal and don't require a license. | :07:58. | :07:59. | |
So this was - said the prosecution - a deliberate attempt | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
to smuggle live firearms - untraceable guns sold | :08:03. | :08:04. | |
Edmunds gave a firm "No" to that suggestion. | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
Next, he was asked "How do you explain gun cartridges found | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
at crime scenes had markings matching tools from your home?" | :08:11. | :08:12. | |
Well, he said he had sold some of his tooling | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
"Who did you sell this particular die-set to?," he was asked. | :08:16. | :08:30. | |
"I have no recollection", he replied. | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
A group of churches in Birmingham has come together to raise money | :08:34. | :08:42. | |
to help those affected by the famine in East Africa. | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
Their campaign is called Feed the People. | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
Members of the group have been speaking to our reporter. | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
Aid agencies have described this as the largest racketeering crisis | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
since 1945. In parts of East Africa, up to 20 million people are facing | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
the threat of famine. It does not take a scientific mind to actually | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
see that there is a real need for people to be fed in the short-term. | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
We can deal with the political issues later, but we must deal with | :09:16. | :09:22. | |
the practical reality that someone is hungry. At holy Trinity Church in | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
Perry Barr, they are discussing how to help. They are planning to raise | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
money for the disaster appeal. We are asking the churches and others | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
to make a big collection to give to Christian Aid so that we can respond | :09:36. | :09:42. | |
to this crisis. We want to try and relieve the suffering, give hope to | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
those people to know that there are brothers and sisters outside of | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
their particular domain who are thinking about them and not only | :09:52. | :09:54. | |
thinking about them but actually doing something to help them. The | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
judges are planning to make Easter Sunday the focus for their | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
fundraising efforts. We certainly aim to work with people of other | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
faiths and no faithful, businesses and any other group that feels that | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
they will want to work with others so we can have a coordinated | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
response. The need for aid is immediate. Churches in the West | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
Midlands are determined their donations will help those most at | :10:19. | :10:19. | |
risk. Thanks for joining us | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
on Midlands Today, this Killed by a car being pursued | :10:23. | :10:24. | |
by police, a 45-year-old pedestrian We will have the weather later. And | :10:25. | :10:43. | |
also they are warming up for Wembley. The teenagers looking to | :10:44. | :10:44. | |
bring the cup back to Shropshire. I'll be getting tips | :10:45. | :10:46. | |
from the nation's best window cleaner a little later | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
in the programme. Volunteers and organisers | :10:51. | :10:58. | |
at a winter night shelter in Coventry say they're concerned | :10:59. | :11:00. | |
rough sleepers will simply end up back on the streets - | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
when it closes this week. The 16-week programme rotated | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
around community centres and churches in the city | :11:09. | :11:09. | |
during the coldest Joan Cummins has been looking | :11:10. | :11:11. | |
at the impact the shelter has had Early Monday morning at one of seven | :11:12. | :11:24. | |
temporary night shelters run and operated by volunteers in Coventry | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
churches. I was asked why I do it. My answer was that I do this for the | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
same reason that people send money to Africa for the drought. It is the | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
same sort of thing. You are helping unfortunate people. Once a week | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
during the winter, Saint opens opens its doors as part of the winter | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
night sheltered project, offering a bed and food to some of the city's | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
homeless. It can happen to almost anyone and so if you are put in that | :11:54. | :11:56. | |
situation, how would you like your son or daughter to be treated? If | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
they had ended up homeless or your mum or dad. All of these people are | :12:01. | :12:07. | |
someone else's relative and you just want to care for people. Many of | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
those using the shelter have experienced relationship breakdowns | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
or addiction issues. Jason says it is helping him turn his life around. | :12:17. | :12:23. | |
Muscles can happen to anybody. We argue, anybody at all. It could | :12:24. | :12:32. | |
happen to anybody. And don't judge. It just means that you do not have a | :12:33. | :12:39. | |
warm bed to sleeping. Four years ago, Lee found himself slipping | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
broth. Now he volunteers with the homeless. Homeless communities have | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
just grown and it is getting bigger and there are a lot of people out | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
there on the streets. We have a lot of people out there at the end of | :12:54. | :12:56. | |
the day. The arrival of spring means the end of the winter project for | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
another eight months and first on a return to the streets. | :13:01. | :13:02. | |
The West Midlands can boast many award winners, | :13:03. | :13:04. | |
now there's a new one to add to the list - Window | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
Robert Baker has been cleaning windows for more than 50 years - | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
he's now scooped the industry's top award. | :13:12. | :13:12. | |
So what does it take to be top of the ladder? | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
Rebecca Wood is with him now to find out, Beccy. | :13:16. | :13:26. | |
Yes, yes got some top tips for hours in a minute, but first of all, it | :13:27. | :13:33. | |
was a glorious weekend. We had some absolutely stunning weather Watchers | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
pictures sent in from fantastic sunsets to beautiful blue skies and | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
Fairweather cloud. It really was a very picturesque weekend. We had | :13:43. | :13:45. | |
some lovely pictures sent in. But I don't know if you are anything like | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
me you might have noticed that the weather did show up some smudges on | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
the windows. Now, we happen to have the country's best window cleaner | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
here and there is no harm in getting a bit of work done. Robert may have | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
thought he was coming in to do an interview but I thought I would get | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
him to do this window. He is very quick so I thought I would get him | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
to do that. Come out here and show as how it is done. Robert, you are | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
of the country's best window cleaner. How does that feel? | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
Fantastic, actually. I am very proud to have won the award. Very proud | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
indeed. You have been doing it now for more than 50 years so you know | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
what it takes to get a window free of sticks. What do you need to do? | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
It is all about having the right equipment. You need this pad and | :14:33. | :14:35. | |
applicator and the more you practice the better you become. In those 50 | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
years, you will have scaled some pretty tall buildings in your time. | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
What is the highest you have gone? 50 feet. That is like the City | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
Hospital. That was the highest I have ever climbed. 50 feet. That is | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
quite spectacular. You have been at the City Hospital today. Yes, | :14:57. | :15:03. | |
cleaning the eye and Sheldon building at City Hospital. Today it | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
has been sunny and we have some smudges on the windows. What we need | :15:08. | :15:10. | |
to do to make sure our windows look as good as you manage to make them? | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
It is all about having the right equipment, like I said. This pad | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
applicator and squeezy and I always use very liquid. The more you | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
practice the better you become. How do you get that action going? It is | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
all about experience. The more you do it, the better you become. So | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
there you go. The more you do it, the better you become. We have got | :15:34. | :15:36. | |
loads of Windows and so if you do not mind, crack on. That is a bit | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
cheeky, isn't it? He is the best in the country. He is quite good at it. | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
He has got about 500 more windows to go. Thank you. | :15:49. | :15:49. | |
It's a big week for Coventry City with a trip | :15:50. | :15:51. | |
Dan Pallet has joined me - they've survived relegation | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
Coventry City will head for Wembley this weekend, | :15:56. | :15:58. | |
knowing they can't be relegated before their CheckaTrade Trophy | :15:59. | :16:00. | |
Their 1-0 home win against Bristol Rovers keeps | :16:01. | :16:07. | |
alive their faint hopes of survival in League One. | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
And the Sky Blues aren't the only Midlands team playing | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
at Wembley on Sunday, as Ian Winter reports. | :16:16. | :16:25. | |
In six days' time, they will be running out at Wembley to play the | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
biggest game of their lives. Will you be going down the night before | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
to get a good sleep? Lots of energy and then hopefully you'll enjoy the | :16:35. | :16:36. | |
game and come back with the trophy. A timely pep talk from Paul Hurst | :16:37. | :16:38. | |
the Shrewsbury Town manager. Because on Sunday, these teenagers | :16:39. | :16:40. | |
will swap a deserted For the final of | :16:41. | :16:42. | |
the Kinder Girls Cup. They've beaten teams from all over | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
the country to get this far. And 70,000 fans will be | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
there to see if the under 13's Can bring the silverware | :16:50. | :16:52. | |
back home to Shropshire Not everyone gets to play at | :16:53. | :17:07. | |
Wembley. But it is nice to have something and someone there and it | :17:08. | :17:10. | |
is great that it is in the girls game as well. It shows that it is | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
growing and the opportunities are there for them as well as the men. | :17:14. | :17:20. | |
What will be scored be? Bristol City one, as three. Good luck. By the | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
time they run out at Wembley on Sunday afternoon, the battle to | :17:27. | :17:28. | |
avoid relegation from League 1 will have taken another twist. At least | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
Coventry City can't be relegated before they play Oxford in the | :17:34. | :17:45. | |
trick-or-treat final. They are still 11 points behind Shrewsbury. | :17:46. | :17:48. | |
Saturday's defeat by Bolton means the shrews are now only one point | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
above Port Vale who drew 0-0 against the MK dons. Will this go right to | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
the wire? I think it is looking that way. I have said recently when I | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
first came to the club, you wanted to make sure we could try to be part | :18:04. | :18:09. | |
of it. We have managed to do that. The players have had some good | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
results on the way and we are in there fighting. Cheltenham Town are | :18:14. | :18:20. | |
still six points clear of lead relegation but no such worries for | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
the girls as they make their final preparations for that Wembley date | :18:26. | :18:26. | |
on Sunday. Good luck to them. Congratulations to Hereford FC | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
who were promoted for the second They're up to Southern League | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
Premier Division level now. And to Birmingham City Ladies | :18:36. | :18:38. | |
who knocked the holders Arsenal out of the FA Cup | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
with a 1-0 victory yesterday. They will now be at home to Chelsea | :18:42. | :18:43. | |
in the semi-finals. It was a big weekend at both ends | :18:44. | :18:46. | |
of the table in rugby I think they are safe | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
despite losing to Wasps yesterday. The bottom club Bristol lost | :18:50. | :18:58. | |
to Gloucester on Friday night. And then we had a sensational game | :18:59. | :19:01. | |
at the Ricoh yesterday. Wasps won 40 points to 33 with two | :19:02. | :19:04. | |
tries form the league's top But Worcester also earned two | :19:05. | :19:07. | |
bonus points in defeat. They scored five tries | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
and lost by just seven. So Worcester are now nine | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
points clear of Bristol It seems we could have | :19:19. | :19:20. | |
a future star in the world Yes, Joe Fraser from the City | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
of Birmingham club has been a very promising junior for a couple | :19:26. | :19:35. | |
of years now. But on Saturday he won | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
the British senior gymnastics Now admittedly a couple | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
of our Olympians weren't competing. But it was still | :19:46. | :20:03. | |
a fantastic weekend. The challenges of growing up | :20:04. | :20:06. | |
with autism in the 1980s is getting It's been a personal | :20:07. | :20:08. | |
mission for Kevin Healey, who wasn't diagnosed | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
with the condition until he was 26. As a child he was labelled | :20:14. | :20:16. | |
as 'eccentric' - and he struggled Now, he's highlighting | :20:17. | :20:19. | |
it all in a film. Here's our Arts | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
Reporter Satnam Rana. Kevin, no talking in class! School | :20:24. | :20:40. | |
was very stressful. I felt overloaded so I started to use my | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
right hand as a puppet. He became a close friend and was with me | :20:45. | :20:46. | |
wherever I went. Just some of the challenges | :20:47. | :20:48. | |
Kevin Healey faced as a child Dramatised in this film | :20:49. | :20:51. | |
Twin Brothers Worlds Apart. Neighbour Trish remembers how hard | :20:52. | :21:00. | |
it was growing up for young Kevin in Knutton in Newscaster Under | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
Lyme. I was different. You were different | :21:05. | :21:13. | |
and there was no other way of putting it because I didn't | :21:14. | :21:16. | |
understand what you had got but I knew your heart was bigger than | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
anything and I used to get angry and I used to come in and stamp my feet | :21:21. | :21:26. | |
and cry and I thought, hang on a minute. Kevin doesn't let it get him | :21:27. | :21:34. | |
down. He holds his head up high and you always have done and I am so | :21:35. | :21:35. | |
proud of you, Kevin. Back in the 80s then no one | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
knew Kevin was autistic. His twin brother was diagnosed | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
with autism at 18 but Kevin was diagnosed when he was 26 | :21:44. | :21:46. | |
with a milder form. This is the park I grew up in as a | :21:47. | :21:53. | |
child and used to play here regularly. Why did you want to put | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
your personal story out there? To raise more awareness of autism and | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
to move away from the misconceptions of autism. | :22:02. | :22:02. | |
According to the National Autistic Society 700,000 people | :22:03. | :22:04. | |
are on the autism spectrum in the UK - that's more than 1 in 100. | :22:05. | :22:11. | |
As a child, what was it like before being diagnosed and what is it like | :22:12. | :22:19. | |
now as an adult? As a child, I found it really hard to interact with | :22:20. | :22:22. | |
other children and communicate with them as a child growing up. As an | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
adult now, even though I can communicate quite articulately, I | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
still have problems with communication. People not | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
understanding me or people thinking I can be quite literal and to the | :22:37. | :22:38. | |
point. After tonight's premiere, | :22:39. | :22:39. | |
it'll be taken to film festivals Satnam Rana, BBC Midlands Today, | :22:40. | :22:41. | |
Newcastle Under Lyme. Now we all love a happy ending - | :22:42. | :22:50. | |
and when it comes to losing a pet - there's nothing more rewarding | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
than being reunited with them. But this tale has | :22:55. | :22:56. | |
a slightly unusual twist. Darcy, a young female cat, | :22:57. | :22:59. | |
was found sheltering in the storms a week ago, | :23:00. | :23:00. | |
and was rescued. When she was taken to the vets | :23:01. | :23:03. | |
to check if she had a microchip - Laura May McMullan | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
takes up the story. Returning home and back where she | :23:07. | :23:18. | |
belongs. Hello. It's been quite a tale | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
for this little lady. Darcy went missing three | :23:24. | :23:30. | |
weeks ago in Birmingham When he took her to | :23:31. | :23:32. | |
the vets, however - her microchip was registered | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
in Valencia, in Spain. I was absolutely speechless | :23:38. | :23:39. | |
and so was the vet. He just looked at the screen | :23:40. | :23:45. | |
and went "what" because it's Despite an international | :23:46. | :23:48. | |
search, and an appeal on Midlands Today this morning - | :23:49. | :23:59. | |
it turns out the answer lies here in Birmingham in January | :24:00. | :24:01. | |
which brings in cats It has been true love ever since. I | :24:02. | :24:23. | |
genuinely never thought I would see her again. So to get her back and to | :24:24. | :24:26. | |
see her in good health, today is a good day. The best part of all was | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
handing her back to Matthew. That was absolutely brilliant. I can't | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
stress enough how important it is that details are updated immediately | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
if people change address or if the pet is re-homed. Without having a | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
microchip, it reduces the chances of owners to be reunited with their | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
pets. The international database currently has more than 67 million | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
pets registered on it. And that number is growing every day. Do you | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
know how much I have missed you? the corner all along - | :25:00. | :25:05. | |
already making her home in Isn't that gorgeous? And also a | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
gorgeous end to the day. Glorious spring sunshine over | :25:10. | :25:23. | |
the weekend, but in short supply today, how's it | :25:24. | :25:25. | |
looking for the week? Well, if you like whether mild, we | :25:26. | :25:34. | |
have more of that to come but it will also be more unsettled. You | :25:35. | :25:36. | |
know we are getting brighter days and sunlight but I am afraid there | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
will be a bit of a change as we head to this week. We are starting to see | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
things breaking down. We keep the mild weather. We will have some | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
sunshine at times. Some showers will start to push on and by the time we | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
get to Wednesday and the second half of the week, that is where we will | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
see rain moving in. So it really is going to start to break down from | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
the settled weekend that we had. As for tonight, we did have plenty of | :26:02. | :26:04. | |
cloud around but that did start to thin and break and we have seen a | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
glorious end to the day but through tonight it will bubble back up and | :26:09. | :26:11. | |
we will start to get more pushing its way up from the south and west. | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
A change is on the way. Our wind direction is changing so that is | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
bringing in some warmer error but temperatures overnight ranging | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
between 3-6 C. The battle between high pressure and low pressure is | :26:25. | :26:27. | |
taking place. We will see low-pressure squeezing that high | :26:28. | :26:30. | |
pressure out of the way. It will change our wind direction but it | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
will also open the floodgates for weather systems or for the start of | :26:35. | :26:37. | |
the day tomorrow there will be some bright spells of sunshine and also | :26:38. | :26:40. | |
cloud but then we will start to see showers pushing their way in from | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
the South West and as is the nature with showers, they could arrive just | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
about anywhere through the day. They could be heavy with thunder as well. | :26:51. | :26:53. | |
Temperature is doing better than they did today. 13-15 C. As we had | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
through the remainder of the day tomorrow, we will see those showers | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
continuing to come through on the breeze. They will start to ease | :27:03. | :27:04. | |
overnight eventually but we will keep the cloud overhead. It will be | :27:05. | :27:11. | |
10-11 C. That is about as good as we 10-11 C. That is about as good as we | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
had today so it will feel much milder. To the end of the week, that | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
is when we start to get that break down. More weather systems working | :27:20. | :27:25. | |
in from the West. Heavy rain. Something a bit fresher as well. | :27:26. | :27:29. | |
Temperatures will be up to 13-15 C for most of the week. Something to | :27:30. | :27:34. | |
cling onto their although the pesky showers are back. | :27:35. | :27:35. | |
Thanks, Rebecca, and thanks for all the weather watchers | :27:36. | :27:37. | |
If they don't appear on the programme, they're often | :27:38. | :27:41. | |
That's on tomorrow's programme at 6.30pm. | :27:42. | :27:43. | |
That's all from us for now, I'll be back at 22.30pm | :27:44. | :27:47. |