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Hello and welcome to Midlands Today. | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
Fears that the Westminster attack has severely damaged | :00:08. | :00:10. | |
the image of Birmingham and its community relations. | :00:11. | :00:20. | |
Khalid Masood, who had lived in Birmingham, killed four people | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
We'll look at the impact on the second city's reputation. | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
Also tonight? A court hears how a surgeon gave a mastectomy to a GP | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
because she was cancer phobic - not to treat it. | :00:31. | :00:39. | |
The new ?1 coin with roots in the Black Country - | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
From holiday snap to global award winner, the architect whose hobby | :00:43. | :01:02. | |
And sometimes our weather can help provide the perfect conditions | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
for a wonderful photo - like this... | :01:07. | :01:07. | |
Sadly with plenty of cloud around, today wasn't quite as good. | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
But will things get better this week? | :01:11. | :01:12. | |
"You can't judge a community based on the actions of one individual." | :01:13. | :01:24. | |
That's the sentiment of a charity worker, | :01:25. | :01:26. | |
who fears the actions of the man responsible for the Westminster | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
attack has severely damaged the image of Birmingham - | :01:30. | :01:31. | |
The world's media descended on the city following the killings | :01:32. | :01:41. | |
last Wednesday, committed by Khalid Masood, who'd | :01:42. | :01:43. | |
Our Special Correspondent, Peter Wilson has been to meet two | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
men, who in recent months have done so much to change perceptions about | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
Wheater two men walking through Birmingham. | :01:50. | :02:11. | |
They've recently become TV and internet sensations. | :02:12. | :02:13. | |
Two ordinary Brummies talking about being proud | :02:14. | :02:15. | |
Last week's attack in London and the link with Khalid Masood | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
to the West Midlands has focused not just Britain's, but the world's | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
For me it is not about a Muslim or non-Muslim, it is about a Birmingham | :02:22. | :02:34. | |
thing, about us as a community, and we need to deal with this and I am | :02:35. | :02:47. | |
very eager to show the world to look at the positive things we're doing. | :02:48. | :02:54. | |
You cannot judge a whole community based on the actions of one | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
individual. Are you surprised this man was living in Birmingham, Khalid | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
Masood? Yes, like I said, I had never heard of him. I have been | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
asking around, I do not know anybody who has ever heard of him or known | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
him, but it doesn't seem like he was a very, you know, social person or | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
part of the community, or maybe even had many friends. | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
Masood's wife, now living in London, has condemned his murderous outrage. | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
But for many Muslims there's a sense of anger that they are all expected | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
to apologise for this man's criminal actions. | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
Everybody wants to hear what Muslims have got to hear about it -- to | :03:34. | :03:40. | |
think about it, and for me that is depressing. When people want to know | :03:41. | :03:49. | |
if the Muslims condemn it, that is insulting. We are always expected to | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
condemn it. People should be smart enough to understand that whether we | :03:53. | :04:02. | |
verbally make some sort of statement or from our hearts, everyone is | :04:03. | :04:03. | |
going to condemn it. We human. The message linking terrorism | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
to Birmingham has not just been on the national agenda | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
but also international one. To try to improve relationships | :04:10. | :04:18. | |
between communities and people of different face, and you go up and | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
down the country to do all these things, and then one thing like this | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
happens and it ruins everything. Something like this brings you back | :04:28. | :04:28. | |
to square one. Both men work for a charity and next | :04:29. | :04:30. | |
week risk their lives going to iraq There's still very little | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
information coming to light Very little information about what | :04:35. | :04:53. | |
he was doing in Birmingham, and the Metropolitan Police say they | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
continue to question two men arrested in Birmingham | :04:57. | :05:07. | |
arrested in the city on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts. | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
They've searched nine addresses in Birmingham and are continuing | :05:11. | :05:12. | |
to search at one of those addresses, where he either lived or visited. | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
At the same time it's important to say Khalid Masood lived | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
in as many places as he had aliases - London, Crawley in Sussex, | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
Today his wife Rohey Hydara, who lived with him in Birmingham | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
until the end of last year, sent her condolences to the families | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
of the four victims who died and has asked for privacy for her family - | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
A surgeon has been a telling a court that he carried out | :05:32. | :05:44. | |
a mastectomy to prevent cancer, not to treat it, | :05:45. | :05:46. | |
Ian Paterson is charged with 20 counts of malicious wounding | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
of ten patients after performing unnecessary breast surgery. | :05:53. | :05:54. | |
Today he's been giving evidence in his defence. | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
Our Health Correspondent, Michele Paduano joins us now | :05:59. | :05:59. | |
So the first patient discussed today was Rosemary Platt? | :06:00. | :06:13. | |
yes, Doctor rosemary Platt was a GP, and she had had one operation in | :06:14. | :06:22. | |
which she had taken part of her breast and removed lymph nodes from | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
under her armpits, then she had two mastectomies, one after the other. | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
He insisted there was good evidence for doing that operation, but also | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
said that Doctor Platt suffered anxiety and had a cancer phobia, and | :06:35. | :06:54. | |
he said you cannot underestimate the difficulty in treating a patient who | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
has medical knowledge, and he said it would have been poor management | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
on his part if he had not discussed his case with her and the | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
possibility of a mastectomy. What did Ian Pattison have to say about | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
other patients? Another patient had a mistake to me, he said there was | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
good evidence she had cancer, and the team had discussed it among | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
themselves. Then another women did not have cancer, but thought she had | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
a different condition. He said she had body image issues and had had | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
surgery to lose 10.5 stone. He actually went through psychiatric | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
assessment for her to see whether she was in a position to have | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
surgery because she was complaining about pain in her breasts. What is | :07:28. | :07:35. | |
the likely timescale for the trial? He has to give evidence and chief | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
for seven other patients he treated, then he will be cross-examined and | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
we would expect the fireworks to take place then. That is the | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
question of how many witnesses he has himself, but we do not expected | :07:50. | :07:56. | |
to be more than a couple of weeks. Thank you. | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
A man has been charged with murder, following the death of a 55 year | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
Mark Beresford died in hospital on Saturday, after being found | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
with serious head injuries at his home in Offmore | :08:08. | :08:09. | |
22 year old Henry Lewis Jones, also from Kidderminster, has appeared | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
at Redditch Magistrates Court today. | :08:13. | :08:14. | |
Staffordshire police has announced its new Chief Constable. | :08:15. | :08:16. | |
Gareth Morgan, who's currently the deputy chief constable | :08:17. | :08:18. | |
at the Avon and Somerset force, was appointed out of | :08:19. | :08:20. | |
He started his career at West Midlands police in 1990 - | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
and has also worked at Warwickshire and West Mercia. | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
A new surgical procedure - which has been trialled in Shropshire - | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
could give hope to thousands of people who have a | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
The pioneering surgery was trialled at the Robert Jones | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic hospital, near Oswestry. | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
It involves operating through the side, rather | :08:43. | :08:43. | |
Experts are now recommending that the NHS should | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
West Midlands Police are appealing for information after a car | :08:48. | :08:57. | |
was set on fire outside a house in Birmingham. | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
CCTV footage, shot during the incident in January, | :09:01. | :09:02. | |
shows three men smashing a rear passenger window of a Mercedes - | :09:03. | :09:04. | |
parked outside a property in the Selly Park area of the city. | :09:05. | :09:12. | |
Up to ?5 billion of investment in Birmingham Airport, | :09:13. | :09:14. | |
the National Exhibition Centre and local universities | :09:15. | :09:16. | |
has been promised - at the biggest-ever business forum | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
staged by the British and Qatari governments. | :09:21. | :09:22. | |
The Prime Minister delivered the keynote speech, as she prepares | :09:23. | :09:24. | |
tomorrow to commit Britain to leaving the European Union. | :09:25. | :09:26. | |
Our political editor Patrick Burns is at the International Convention | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
Centre in Birmingham, where the event was staged. | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
Ministers are leaving it to us to join the | :09:35. | :10:00. | |
But clearly it sends out the message that the Midlands Engine is firing | :10:01. | :10:13. | |
The most visible Qatari presence here at the moment is the daily air | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
And the airport itself is one of the potential beneficiaries, | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
along an assortment of transport projects. | :10:23. | :10:23. | |
Theresa May signalled how much store she sets by all this | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
by finding time to speak here, even as she prepares to take | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
the plunge tomorrow and set Britain on course to leave the EU. | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
I asked one of her cabinet colleagues if global links like this | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
would be enough to make up for the loss of European investment. | :10:36. | :10:37. | |
This is investment on top of whatever else we negotiate. This is | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
a real bonus, a real plus, a vote of confidence, not just in the United | :10:43. | :10:44. | |
Kingdom, it is a vote of confidence in Birmingham and the Midlands. And | :10:45. | :10:52. | |
that is as it should be. How did the message come across to people on the | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
receiving end of the charm offensive? | :10:56. | :11:04. | |
What's not to like about ?5 billion of inward investment, | :11:05. | :11:06. | |
in areas like global sport, cyber and security, | :11:07. | :11:08. | |
But of course business hates uncertainty and Brexit does | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
The people of Birmingham will benefit through the new life | :11:12. | :11:20. | |
sciences Park, new technologies to intervene with new therapies, and | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
also the people of Birmingham will benefit from enamoured -- inward | :11:26. | :11:33. | |
investment and to the stopper opportunities this will bring. | :11:34. | :11:44. | |
Theresa May likes to point out that Britain is the only member running a | :11:45. | :11:55. | |
surplus trade with China... Jaguar Land Rover boss has expressed real | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
worries about what might happen if Britain loses open access to his | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
biggest markets in Europe. That is a very big concern and it will weigh | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
on her mind. Thank you very much. Have you seen one of | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
the new ?1 coins which went A teenager in the Black Country | :12:13. | :12:15. | |
was particularly keen to get his hands on one - | :12:16. | :12:18. | |
because he designed it. David Pearce won a Royal Mint | :12:19. | :12:21. | |
competition two years ago - and his initials feature | :12:22. | :12:23. | |
on the new coin. But today was the first | :12:24. | :12:25. | |
time he saw it. David Pearce has every | :12:26. | :12:27. | |
reason to be proud - he designed the back | :12:28. | :12:30. | |
of the new pound coin, From the Royal Coronet, there is the | :12:31. | :12:43. | |
English Tudor Rose, the Welsh league, the Scottish thistle and the | :12:44. | :12:45. | |
Northern Irish shamrock. They're tiny, but David's initials | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
are beneath the coronet on the right of the coin, | :12:50. | :12:51. | |
but he's pretty modest. Quite humbled to have a part in the | :12:52. | :13:00. | |
creation of this kind of coin. It is a nice experience. | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
He entered this drawing in a Royal Mint competition | :13:04. | :13:05. | |
with the encouragement of his teacher at Queen | :13:06. | :13:07. | |
Mary's Grammar School in Walsall, and won ?10,000. | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
The headmaster put this as his top achievement in the last academic | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
year, so the school as a whole are very proud. His friends are | :13:17. | :13:23. | |
impressed as well. Thousands of people entered this, and it had to | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
be one of my mates from my class to design the coin, it was a great | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
achievement for David. What do you think of it? Green it is beautiful, | :13:32. | :13:42. | |
I like the design, and how he incorporates the togetherness of the | :13:43. | :13:43. | |
country. The pain machines and things like | :13:44. | :14:03. | |
that have to be changed now. What do you like about it? The general | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
design, it will be hard to counterfeit. Back to David, and he | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
may have been to Downing Street and met the then Chancellor, but we | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
couldn't resist showing you what happened during the interview. | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
Well, David will be in his forties by the time the new coin ceases | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
But before then he has A Levels this summer and an offer | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
from Cambridge to study architecture. | :14:32. | :14:39. | |
And if you still have some of the paper ?5 notes | :14:40. | :14:41. | |
in your purse or wallet, you have until 5th May to spend them | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
- or take them to the bank to exchange for the plastic ones. | :14:46. | :14:48. | |
Thanks for joining us on Midlands Today. | :14:49. | :14:49. | |
Rebecca will be here later with the forecast, | :14:50. | :14:51. | |
They are in the last eight in Europe, can wasps make it all the | :14:52. | :15:02. | |
way to the final? And how a holiday snap in Berllin | :15:03. | :15:05. | |
landed an architect, not one, Potholes, they're the bane | :15:06. | :15:08. | |
of drivers' and cyclists lives. A report published today says that | :15:09. | :15:17. | |
roads in the West Midlands are in such a state of disrepair - | :15:18. | :15:19. | |
it will take more than ?1 billion to get them into reasonable condition - | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
that's more than ?96 million, Last year 208,000 | :15:25. | :15:26. | |
potholes were filled Nicola Beckford is at Barton under | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
Needwood in Staffordshire, to give us an idea of the state | :15:33. | :15:39. | |
of the roads there. It is one of those things, potholes, | :15:40. | :16:00. | |
that gets People's Court. We're at the roundabout off the 838, and this | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
road is littered with potholes. Take a look at this one. You'd saw a car | :16:05. | :16:11. | |
move around it. It is absolutely enormous. You can see the way the | :16:12. | :16:24. | |
cars are weaving their way and to avoid it. Painting at this | :16:25. | :16:26. | |
roundabout, again we are looking good old look at it. It is littered | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
with potholes. Earlier I saw cyclists trying to weave their way | :16:32. | :16:34. | |
around, and motorcyclists trying to do the same. The reason we're | :16:35. | :16:37. | |
talking about potholes is because there is a new survey out which says | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
some of the Midlands roads have real problems with potholes. They say the | :16:42. | :16:49. | |
backlog for road repairs are so bad it will take nine years to clear it. | :16:50. | :16:51. | |
But the problem is, each local authority would need to have ?5 | :16:52. | :16:54. | |
million extra in their budgets to solve it, according to the report. | :16:55. | :16:56. | |
Inevitably there are calls for more funding. Every so often the | :16:57. | :16:59. | |
government gives out a potholed front -- pothole fund, reacting to | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
the crisis. But we need to plan longer term funding and have a | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
greater proportion of what drivers paying motoring taxes ring fenced | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
just for maintenance. We do not have time to give you all the information | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
on social media on potholes. Have a look at Facebook. The Department for | :17:18. | :17:23. | |
Transport say they are providing ?6 million over six years to maintain | :17:24. | :17:25. | |
roads and repair potholes. When the boss asks you to raise | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
some money for charity - But one Gloucester financial firm | :17:32. | :17:34. | |
went a bit further - by raising ?50 million | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
and helping 3000 charities. The difference, it says, | :17:39. | :17:40. | |
is the ethical and responsible way the company is run - | :17:41. | :17:43. | |
without having to answer But just how easy is it to be | :17:44. | :17:45. | |
ethical and profitable? Here's our Gloucestershire | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
reporter, Steve Knibbs. As insurance companies go, | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
the office may look But Ecclesiastical is doing | :17:55. | :17:57. | |
something different. As well as insuring some | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
of the world's most impressive buildings - | :18:04. | :18:05. | |
like St Paul's cathedral - it works to plough | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
profits into charities. The new chief exec challenged his | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
staff to put fifty million to good causes in just three years - | :18:16. | :18:18. | |
it took them just over two. He says the fact they're owned | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
by a charity and don't have to pay dividends to corporate | :18:24. | :18:26. | |
shareholders is key... When you have a charitable ownership | :18:27. | :18:44. | |
and you are driven by the right thing, rather than the topline and | :18:45. | :18:45. | |
bottom line, you do not do that. Just a mile down the road - | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
and on a much smaller scale - a company that sources ethical | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
coffee from Tanzania and Brazil. And profits they make go back | :18:53. | :18:55. | |
there - in this case into a new fresh water supply | :18:56. | :18:57. | |
into a village in Tanzania. Being ethical has always | :18:58. | :19:00. | |
been their mantra - but it's something that you have | :19:01. | :19:02. | |
to live and breathe. Business is a really powerful tool | :19:03. | :19:09. | |
to change the world. It is often seen as a necessary evil, which I do | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
not believe. I think business can be used to serve the greater good. Back | :19:14. | :19:28. | |
here, Mark wants to challenge his staff even further. What is driving | :19:29. | :19:30. | |
us is the contribution to good causes. Ethical doesn't work for | :19:31. | :19:38. | |
everyone, but for some people the incentive of just doing good seems | :19:39. | :19:40. | |
to be enough. Dan's here to talk sport - | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
specifically rugby union. You've been catching up with Wasps | :19:46. | :19:47. | |
ahead of their big weekend. Yes, the training ground felt | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
different today. On Saturday Wasps face Leinster | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
and a crowd of around 50,000 as they bid for a place | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
in the European Champions For the English players in the Wasps | :20:00. | :20:01. | |
team it's a quick return to Dublin - the scene of their Grand Slam | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
disappointment in the 6 Nations. It is the one blemish on a perfect | :20:07. | :20:08. | |
record. England's defeat to Ireland didn't | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
cost them the 6 Nations - but they did lose the grand slam | :20:13. | :20:15. | |
and a world record. But this weekend there's a form | :20:16. | :20:17. | |
of rematch as Leinster boast a host of Irish Internationals - | :20:18. | :20:20. | |
and Wasps have four England players. I'm sure they carry a little bit of | :20:21. | :20:31. | |
fire in the belly about that game, but I think the overriding emotions | :20:32. | :20:34. | |
will certainly be to get the job done. | :20:35. | :20:36. | |
Prop Matt Mullan is one of the England players now | :20:37. | :20:39. | |
And he's relishing running out in Dublin in front | :20:40. | :20:42. | |
It is incredible. It is what you work so hard fought on the training | :20:43. | :20:50. | |
ground Monday to Friday. You put in the hard yards to get the chance to | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
showcase your talent as a team and individual on grounds like that, on | :20:55. | :21:00. | |
big stages. Everyone is desperate to go there and try to play well. You | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
can feel the buzz in training today, a different atmosphere. Hopefully we | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
can put on a good show. Wasps are in the quarterfinals in Europe. But not | :21:10. | :21:16. | |
any silverware. Everything we have done counts for | :21:17. | :21:40. | |
nothing, it does not amount to any silverware at the moment, so we | :21:41. | :21:43. | |
would like to translate that into silverware. | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
Last weekend Wasps victory over Worcester in the Premiership | :21:48. | :21:49. | |
Don't expect the same again this weekend. | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
So Wasps are looking forward to next weekend. | :21:55. | :22:05. | |
But the fall-out continues from Sunday's game with Worcester. | :22:06. | :22:07. | |
It was arguably the turning point on Sunday's game was the sending-off | :22:08. | :22:16. | |
of Worcester's Bryce Heem for this dangerous tackle on | :22:17. | :22:18. | |
We learned today that Le Roux suffered concussion so must go | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
through the necessary protocol and could miss Saturday's | :22:25. | :22:26. | |
Heem has pleaded guilty to an RFU disciplinary charge and has been | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
List you all miss him, he has been playing well. -- Worcester will miss | :22:31. | :22:47. | |
him. If you enjoy taking pictures | :22:48. | :22:49. | |
on holiday, you'll be The Birmingham architect landed | :22:50. | :22:51. | |
a double win in the world's largest photography competition, | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
with this photo. Tim is an architect, | :22:56. | :22:56. | |
with a natural eye for buildings. But he's not a professional | :22:57. | :22:58. | |
photographer. So today's announcement has | :22:59. | :23:00. | |
caught him by surprise - as our Arts reporter Satnam Rana | :23:01. | :23:02. | |
has been discovering. He's an amateur photograher who's | :23:03. | :23:04. | |
picked up not one but two wins in the Sony World Photography | :23:05. | :23:07. | |
Awards. And it was this shot of the Federal | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
building in Berlin that I never thought I would enter it | :23:13. | :23:25. | |
into any awards. I just saw this amazing circular building and | :23:26. | :23:27. | |
thought I need to wait here for these people to get into the shot. | :23:28. | :23:29. | |
Taken by Tim Cornbill from Birmingham. | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
He's won in the Open Category section for architecture globally | :23:34. | :23:35. | |
and has also picked up the UK national award. | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
Yes, I got a call at work actually and I just had to say, are you sure | :23:40. | :23:46. | |
you've got the right person? I could not quite believe that. | :23:47. | :23:52. | |
Closer to home Tim Cornbill is known on social | :23:53. | :23:54. | |
media for taking photos in Birmingham - a place | :23:55. | :23:57. | |
Most of us think we are budding photographers. | :23:58. | :24:08. | |
But there are top tips we can pick up. We have perfect weather today, | :24:09. | :24:20. | |
so always look for the weather and where the light is good. The light | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
is hitting the front of the library, so put up your camera, balance the | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
library in the shot, then touch on your screen to get it in focus. And | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
then shoot away. It could be an award-winning entry! | :24:35. | :24:41. | |
By profession he is an architect. A winning combination, really. You | :24:42. | :24:57. | |
look for facades, and elements like the large photo that won the award. | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
He has taken a day off today to celebrate, by taking more photos. A | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
talented guy. And given the number of pictures we get from weather | :25:08. | :25:13. | |
Watchers, there are plenty of amateur photographers at home. | :25:14. | :25:26. | |
We have a loyal team of weather watchers who send in some fantastic | :25:27. | :25:29. | |
pictures like these - but we're always looking | :25:30. | :25:31. | |
It's really easy, all you need to do is sign up to | :25:32. | :25:39. | |
Take a picture in landscape, and upload it. | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
It could end up on Midlands Today one evening. | :25:44. | :25:51. | |
I have had a look around some of the other regions, and let me tell you, | :25:52. | :25:58. | |
ours are the best. It helped tell today's story. We had mist and fog | :25:59. | :26:06. | |
out there today. Not very pleasant. In some spots did get lovely, which | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
helped to boost temperatures. We made it to in some spots. We have | :26:11. | :26:19. | |
got some heavily scattered showers and rumbles of thunder, which | :26:20. | :26:27. | |
started to work their way across Birmingham. At Edgbaston there was | :26:28. | :26:37. | |
cricket today, it is almost like mother nature knows. Temperatures | :26:38. | :26:44. | |
got up to 13, but by this afternoon the rain started and tempers | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
underneath the rain dropped by 4 degrees. The shower is really did | :26:49. | :26:51. | |
have an impact. We continue to see them filtering through the West | :26:52. | :26:54. | |
tonight, and then we get a persistent area of rain moving its | :26:55. | :26:56. | |
way through. Eventually it will clear, with cloud over and. | :26:57. | :26:58. | |
Temperatures are in double figures. These are the daytime highs | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
yesterday, but low-pressure dominating. Tomorrow rain will move | :27:04. | :27:12. | |
on from the West, with cloud around. For the least we could get something | :27:13. | :27:15. | |
attach brighter, with temperatures getting up to 13 or 14. But the | :27:16. | :27:21. | |
breeze will continue to keep filtering in the match milder air. | :27:22. | :27:25. | |
It will be a much milder end to the data model, with rain moving and. | :27:26. | :27:31. | |
Temperatures 11 to 12 Celsius. Thursday the best of the brightness | :27:32. | :27:37. | |
will be further east, so make your way there. At the end of the week | :27:38. | :27:42. | |
things will start to brighten up. That is all from me. I will be back | :27:43. | :27:45. | |
with your late news at 10:30pm. Goodbye. | :27:46. | :27:46. |