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In court, a 23 year-old man's remanded in custody by a judge, | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
charged with the murders of a mother and her son in Stourbridge. | :00:10. | :00:14. | |
Aaron Barley's expected to face trial in the autumn. | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
Another blow for campaigners: children's A in Stafford to remain | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
It affects so many families and so many children. | :00:22. | :00:32. | |
When are they going to see sense and stop | :00:33. | :00:34. | |
After a wretched season, sunshine at last for 43,000 Coventry City | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
What a place to come and win the final. | :00:38. | :00:46. | |
We will find out why eight-year-old James has more reason to smile than | :00:47. | :00:59. | |
most. And spring is in full | :01:00. | :00:59. | |
flow this week. Largely dry, temperatures | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
in to the mid-teens, a few frosty nights, | :01:03. | :01:04. | |
gardeners take note. More details on that | :01:05. | :01:06. | |
in the forecast later. A 23-year-old man's been remanded | :01:07. | :01:13. | |
in custody charged with the murders of a mother and her son in the Black | :01:14. | :01:23. | |
Country. Aaron Barley, of no fixed address, | :01:24. | :01:25. | |
appeared before a judge Seated in the dock accompanied | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
by a female custody officer, the 23-year-old man accused | :01:29. | :01:36. | |
of the murders of a mother and son. 13-year-old Pierce Wilkinson died | :01:37. | :01:43. | |
at the family home in Greyhound Lane in Stourbridge along with his mum | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
Tracey. His father, Peter, Tracey's | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
husband, suffered wounds Any hearing that lasted seven | :01:52. | :02:02. | |
minutes, the defendants did to confirm his name. There was no | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
application for bail. His trial will likely take place in the autumn and | :02:08. | :02:08. | |
last up to two weeks. Yesterday the Wilkinson's 18 | :02:09. | :02:10. | |
year-old daughter, Lydia, who was away at university | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
when the attack happened visited the family home | :02:15. | :02:16. | |
to see the many floral Her brother, nicknamed Pippin, | :02:17. | :02:18. | |
she described as fun-loving, Mum Tracey was she said loving | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
and caring, a wonderful mother. In statement she also said | :02:25. | :02:33. | |
Aaron Barley had never lived at the family home but had been | :02:34. | :02:35. | |
helped by the family In court he's been described | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
as of no fixed address. Lydia's father, Peter, | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
remains seriously ill in hospital. Children's Emergency Services centre | :02:45. | :02:52. | |
at County Hospital in Stafford is to remain closed | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
after a review found that re-opening it would be | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
"unsafe and unsustainable". The centre shut last | :03:00. | :03:01. | |
August following concerns Since then a minor injuries | :03:02. | :03:03. | |
unit's been in place. That'll be replaced with an urgent | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
care centre to meet demand for treatment for under 16s | :03:09. | :03:10. | |
with minor illnesses. Here's our Staffordshire | :03:11. | :03:12. | |
reporter, Liz Copper. For more than six months now, | :03:13. | :03:19. | |
children from Stafford needing emergency treatment have been coming | :03:20. | :03:21. | |
here to Stoke-on-Trent. It is one of the larger | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
hospital A departments Now there is confirmation this | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
arrangement shall continue. The number of children | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
who would use this Therefore, it is much better | :03:35. | :03:36. | |
to treat this very small group of very sick children in | :03:37. | :03:45. | |
larger hospitals, such as the Royal Stoke | :03:46. | :03:47. | |
here or Wolverhampton. Since the Children's Emergency | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
Centre in Stafford was shut, up to ten extra patients per week | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
have been transferred to be treated The trust said it has made | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
the changes to make sure safe children's services | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
are delivered at both hospitals. The minor injuries unit for under | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
16s at Stafford will continue But 46% of patients have been | :04:08. | :04:09. | |
attending with minor illnesses. The plan is to start | :04:10. | :04:19. | |
a GP led services. Campaigners who fought to keep | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
services at Stafford view this It affects so many families, | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
so many children. When are they going to see sense | :04:27. | :04:34. | |
and stop doing this to us? The adult A department | :04:35. | :04:43. | |
at Stafford will be unaffected member of staff trained | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
in resuscitation on duty in Stafford It seems there's barely a week goes | :04:47. | :04:54. | |
by when we're not reporting on hospital closures - | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
either temporary or permanent. Our Health Corespondent | :04:59. | :05:00. | |
Michele Paduano is here - So what's the overall picture | :05:01. | :05:02. | |
like around the region, Michele? Reducing the number of children's | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
units and emergency departments has been on the cards for more than ten | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
years, but the speed is increasing Well, there's a national shortage | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
of children's and emergency consultants and safety regulations | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
mean that there should be consultant European working time regulations | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
also mean that more doctors Stafford has today downgraded | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
children's services The Emergency department is only | :05:27. | :05:35. | |
open 12 hours a day and the plan going forward is likely | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
to be complete closure. In Worcestershire, a public | :05:41. | :05:48. | |
consultation has just and children's had already moved | :05:49. | :05:49. | |
from the Alex in Redditch The A in Redditch is likely only | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
to be equipped in future In Shropshire, children's services | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
moved from Shrewsbury to Telford, but could now move back | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
to Shrewsbury because the plan has changed | :06:03. | :06:04. | |
and they now want to close In Warwickshire, they are still | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
arguing, but the George Eliot in Nuneaton is the most likely | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
to lose services as it is smallest And in the Black Country the most | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
at risk of losing out As well as having fewer specialists, | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
you don't have to have surgeons and anaesthetists | :06:21. | :06:29. | |
and all the operating staff Modern medicine does say | :06:30. | :06:31. | |
concentrating expertise in bigger hospitals leads to better outcomes, | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
but what frightens the public is how you deal with those patients | :06:37. | :06:44. | |
who are dying children when you have to drive past the front | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
door of a hospital. Police have released images of a man | :06:48. | :06:58. | |
they believe murdered a stranger in a random attack at a Birmingham | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
tram stop during Friday 57-year-old Anthony Banting suffered | :07:02. | :07:03. | |
multiple stab wounds Ben Sidwell is by the tram | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
stop for us now, where So what do we know | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
about the attack, Ben? The attack happened just before five | :07:11. | :07:17. | |
o'clock on Friday. He got off the tram here and made his way across | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
and up to the exit where he was attacked. It seemingly random attack | :07:22. | :07:28. | |
and was stabbed multiple times and sadly died at the scene. The judge | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
transport police have released CCTV footage. That is of a man they | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
believe may have carried out the murder. The very keen to speak to | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
him and anyone who knows who he is. The also saying there were two Asian | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
women here around the scene at the time. They may have witnessed | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
something, maybe the man leaving and maybe the attack itself. We are keen | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
to speak to them as well. With the murderer still on the list, there | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
are concerns around here. The senior investigator says he understands | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
that are doing everything they can to make everybody feel safe. | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
Understandably, I think people would be concerned. | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
I would reiterate that we have increased our patrols on the | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
We are working in close proximity with | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
our colleagues in West Midlands Police and we are doing everything | :08:18. | :08:19. | |
What more do we know about the man who died? Anthony was 57. He has | :08:20. | :08:33. | |
been described as the loving and family man. On the day he was | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
heading to see his son at a local pub and that is why he got off at | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
the start. Plenty of floral tributes to him here. The British Transport | :08:44. | :08:50. | |
Police say if you know anything get in touch as soon as possible. -- at | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
this tram stop. Thanks for joining us | :08:56. | :08:56. | |
here on Midlands Today I've walked my legs off | :08:57. | :08:58. | |
the last couple of days! The forecast later with Shefali, | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
also this evening: If you go down to the woods today, | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
you'll find them trying to create And celebrating a special | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
anniversary down by the riverside at the birthplace of | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
the industrial revolution. Well, what an occasion at Wembley | :09:14. | :09:21. | |
yesterday as Coventry City won their first silverware | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
for 30 years. They won the Checkatrade Trophy - | :09:25. | :09:25. | |
roared on by 45,000 Sky Blues fans, among them one young fan who has | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
a very special Yes, I am. Welcome to the Howden | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
area of Coventry. Welcome to the Coundon area | :09:32. | :09:49. | |
of Coventry and the family home Now James has a pair of boots that | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
won't fit him for a very long time. That pair of boots helped Coventry | :09:53. | :10:01. | |
City win yesterday. We will speak to James in just a moment. Here is the | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
story of an incredible day. Surrounded by thousands, | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
alone with his thoughts. This is the moment Gael Bigirimana, | :10:10. | :10:11. | |
a deeply religious man, fell to his knees gave thanks | :10:12. | :10:13. | |
for the most amazing And not just because Gael had scored | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
Coventry City's opening goal. To set alight this Wembley | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
final against Oxford ... And not because he was in the right | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
place at the right time to clear off the line in the final minute | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
to guarantee Coventry's 2-1 victory Oh, no, what really made | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
this weekend special. was that 24 hours earlier Gael had | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
watched his wife Natalia give birth If your baby had been born 24 hours | :10:39. | :10:52. | |
later, would you have missed this Wembley final? That is a hard | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
question. My wife wanted me to play but all I can do... I can't complain | :10:57. | :11:04. | |
but give God thanks for planning how things have turned out. It is | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
unbelievable. He is a great lad. I am really pleased for him. He scored | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
the goal and he did that and what you we can for him. Outstanding. | :11:14. | :11:20. | |
Earlier, Coventry's day had got off to a flying start. Seven members of | :11:21. | :11:28. | |
the Prichard family had chosen to wear seven variations of shouts. | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
Mary and clear how does all in stitches. They had noted figures of | :11:32. | :11:41. | |
every player from that famous if a cup win over Spurs. Wembley Way | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
hasn't welcomed Coventry fan since 1987 and this was an opportunity not | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
to be missed. The silver lining in a season of very dark clouds. How | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
fitting that it was George Thomas, one of several academy graduates, | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
that scored the second goal. The majority of Wembley went wild and so | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
did George, just one week after his 20th birthday. You are dreaming | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
about how it is going to go and I could never have pictured what | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
happened out there. To get the winner in the final, that is what | :12:16. | :12:23. | |
dreams are made of. Coventry City are the winners 2017. Had he been in | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
touch with the owners? I have, indeed. And their reaction? | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
Delighted. No wonder street vendor 's were still selling Coventry stuff | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
in the city centre today. Great for the city. It's fantastic. I was just | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
discussing how good it was. We never thought we would see this day again. | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
I'm thrilled to bits. It is great when something after all this time. | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
Before the end of April, relegation looked almost certain. But for 90 | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
minutes, winning at Wembley but the smiles back to the fan's faces. | :12:59. | :13:05. | |
Let's get the story of James and his bits. Why do you have them's | :13:06. | :13:17. | |
at the end of the match when all the players were holding the trophy, | :13:18. | :13:29. | |
then came out and handed the football boots over to me just over | :13:30. | :13:36. | |
the fence. Can you believe you have is here of football boots that won | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
at Wembley? No, it is a rear chance to get them. -- a chance to get | :13:42. | :13:54. | |
them. Will you ever wear them's maybe I will wear them once but I | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
probably will not clean them. Lisa, could you believe the other 24 hours | :14:00. | :14:07. | |
and these football boots? It has been incredible. We have been | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
speaking to local radio and television, 24-hour is for the young | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
boy 's dream to come true likeness was amazing. It has been incredible | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
and it is nice to think so much publicity has been given. It also | :14:23. | :14:29. | |
makes young people get behind the club and the city. I could not say | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
it better myself. We will be back later with the rest of the sport but | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
the fans are smiling. I would have given anything at your age to have | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
something like that happen to me. Wonderful. | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
Highways England says it growing increasingly concerned | :14:51. | :14:52. | |
about the number of road workers being killed or seriously injured | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
There've been a dozen deaths in the past decade, | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
many as a result of being hit by a motorist recklessly entering | :15:03. | :15:05. | |
The road may be coned off - workers wearing high vis gear - | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
but it doesn't stop some drivers ploughing on. | :15:11. | :15:12. | |
This lorry driver makes a mockery of a lane closure. | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
Menacing behaviour with the human cost. Les Bramwell was hit by a car | :15:16. | :15:27. | |
whilst repairing a pothole in Stoke-on-Trent last year. These | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
images capture the moment before impact. The grandfather of four was | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
left with a broken neck and leg and he is not able to return to work, | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
when you're on. Lucky to be here. I am trying to get the date out of my | :15:44. | :15:49. | |
mind and get on with my life but that overtakes everything. Highways | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
England say 12 road workers have lost their lives doing their job. We | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
have seen figures that suggests more than 300 have been injured in that | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
time, making it the 16th most dangerous occupation going. At the | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
traffic control centre, this camera was trained on the mortuary this | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
afternoon after a serious crash. It gives the sort of idea that... We | :16:13. | :16:20. | |
have recorded since last May incidents of cars driving | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
incorrectly. I would say to people, just imagine what it would be like | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
if heavy goods vehicles were driving through your place of work. The | :16:31. | :16:36. | |
driver who injured Les was fined and given three points on his licence. | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
Do you think that was a good penalty for him? No, it will not be a | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
deterrent. Driving behaviour is difficult to predict but that has | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
not stopped highways England setting itself a target to ensure no good | :16:51. | :16:53. | |
worker is killed or injured by the year 2040. How will climate change | :16:54. | :17:08. | |
affect a English forest? Scientists are artificially creating the | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
atmosphere of the future across acres of Staffordshire woodland, the | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
Sting Green how is gas levels to see how the trees and plants react. I am | :17:16. | :17:21. | |
not a scientist but this is an intriguing long-term experiment. | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
At first sight this wood in Norbury in Staffordshire | :17:27. | :17:28. | |
Ancient oaks are just about to burst into leaf. | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
But this entire wood is now a massive scientific experiment. | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
The important thing about this experiment is that we have taken the | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
laboratory into the woodlands. It is very much about how the plants | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
interact with the microbes in the soil, the insects and so on. | :17:52. | :17:52. | |
These masts will pump out greenhouse gas carbon dioxide... | :17:53. | :17:55. | |
Artificially raising levels of the gas to where scientists think | :17:56. | :17:57. | |
Then they'll see how the wood reacts. | :17:58. | :18:06. | |
Only the researchers and scientists can actually go inside the heart of | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
the wood inside the tower is because that a area is packed with | :18:13. | :18:18. | |
instruments. There are high tap two Tech robots. Shortly, this is going | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
to be the most measured with land anywhere in the northern hemisphere. | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
We want to follow the carbon that we are adding in as it comes into that | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
woodland, it is taken up by the plants through photosynthesis. We | :18:34. | :18:36. | |
want to follow it as it goes through the ecosystems. Some of it will be | :18:37. | :18:43. | |
stored and some of it will come out. We were here when you're a goal. The | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
entire aim is to keep the impact on the wood to a minimum. Making sure | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
any changes are down to the extra carbon dioxide and nothing else. | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
When it is all over, everything will be removed. When we are finished, we | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
will answer them and tick the towers away. We will let the Forest go back | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
to its natural resting state. For the next ten years, this weird is | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
the site for an extraordinary scientific experiment. | :19:13. | :19:14. | |
Let's get back to sport and Ian's here. | :19:15. | :19:24. | |
Have you recovered from all the excitement yesterday at Wembley? | :19:25. | :19:31. | |
My abiding memory of the whole day will be the player beaming away | :19:32. | :19:41. | |
remembering his triumph from 30 years ago and really enjoying | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
sharing the success of that young Coventry city team at Wembley. | :19:47. | :19:48. | |
It's back to the relegation battle in League One | :19:49. | :19:51. | |
for Coventry on Wednesday night and there were contrasting fortunes | :19:52. | :19:54. | |
in that for Port Vale and Shrewsbury on Saturday. | :19:55. | :19:56. | |
But Nick Clitheroe starts his look back at the weekend action | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
with an impressive showing from West Bromwich Albion | :20:00. | :20:01. | |
They had to do a lot of defending but then who doesn't | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
And in fact the Baggies came agonisingly close to a winner | :20:06. | :20:08. | |
through Darren Fletcher who was returning | :20:09. | :20:10. | |
A decent shot but it was let slip through. It hit the bar. A great | :20:11. | :20:21. | |
point, though. The Stoke City manager Mark Hughes | :20:22. | :20:22. | |
says they must improve if they're to ensure a place | :20:23. | :20:24. | |
in the Premier League's top ten. Defeat at Leicester leaves them | :20:25. | :20:27. | |
in ninth for now but with five clubs Can Aston Villa still reach | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
the Championship playoffs. Closing a ten point gap with only | :20:32. | :20:34. | |
seven games to play looks tough but with Jonathan Kodjia in superb | :20:35. | :20:37. | |
goalscoring form Wolves two goal hero | :20:38. | :20:39. | |
was rather more unexpected. Captain Danny Baath hadn't | :20:40. | :20:42. | |
scored since August. But even he'll have to admit | :20:43. | :20:45. | |
the goal of the game was Performance of the day surely goes | :20:46. | :20:48. | |
to Burton Albion though. Their 1-0 victory at promotion | :20:49. | :20:56. | |
chasing Huddersfield moves the Brewers four points | :20:57. | :20:58. | |
clear of danger. Birmingham City are six points | :20:59. | :21:00. | |
above the relegation zone but left Suffolk frustrated | :21:01. | :21:02. | |
after Jonathan Grounds goal was cancelled out by a freak | :21:03. | :21:04. | |
equaliser for Ipswich. Port Vale were the big | :21:05. | :21:06. | |
movers in League One. This win over Wimbledon | :21:07. | :21:09. | |
means they climb out Which all meant that Shrewsbury Town | :21:10. | :21:11. | |
dropped in to the bottom four. Defeat at Bristol Rovers leaves them | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
two points from safety. Walsall seem destined for mid | :21:16. | :21:17. | |
table after their one-nil And finally plenty to cheer | :21:18. | :21:20. | |
for Cheltenham boss Gary Johnson who's recuperating at home | :21:21. | :21:27. | |
after a heart operation and saw Harry Pell's double keep them six | :21:28. | :21:29. | |
points clear of the League Two drop. The Birmingham City Ladies forward | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
Ellen White has been named in the England squad for this | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
summer's European Championships White is the only Midlands based | :21:40. | :21:42. | |
player included in manager She's confident this will be a much | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
better experience than in the last Euros when England failed to make it | :21:47. | :21:54. | |
past the group stage. We have grown. We have had a new | :21:55. | :22:04. | |
manager, we have won a bronze medal, we have beaten top international | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
teams. We have beaten the best in the world. We have massive things | :22:09. | :22:11. | |
behind us that can push us forward and really help us go forward for | :22:12. | :22:14. | |
the Urals. We've heard about Coventry's | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
football success, but disappointment Yes, there'll be no | :22:19. | :22:21. | |
European Cup final were well beaten 32-17 | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
by Leinster in Dublin and will now have to concentrate | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
on winning the Premiership. And what's this I hear | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
about rugby league possibly Wasps have admitted | :22:32. | :22:33. | |
they are interested in setting up a Super League club in Coventry | :22:34. | :22:40. | |
but that faces a lot of hurdles I must also mention | :22:41. | :22:43. | |
Gloucester who beat Cardiff in the European Challenge Cup | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
quarter-finals and today announced their head coach will be | :22:49. | :22:58. | |
South African Johan Ackermann It's considered to be the most | :22:59. | :23:00. | |
important industrial Now ambitious plans have been | :23:01. | :23:02. | |
unveiled for a fifteen million pounds makeover | :23:03. | :23:05. | |
at the Ironbridge A cluster of industrial buildings | :23:06. | :23:20. | |
that helped change the world for ever. | :23:21. | :23:22. | |
Iron smelting was perfected at Coalbrookdale. | :23:23. | :23:24. | |
It paved the way for the mass production of cooking pots sparking | :23:25. | :23:27. | |
Now modern day businesses are being asked to consider | :23:28. | :23:30. | |
contributing towards a ?15 million master plan to boost tourism | :23:31. | :23:32. | |
and improve heritage attractions in the area. | :23:33. | :23:34. | |
The Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust, celebrating its 50th birthday, | :23:35. | :23:40. | |
I think there is a lot in it for them. Most manufacturing businesses | :23:41. | :23:47. | |
could trace their roots back to the events that happened here over 300 | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
years ago. There is that relevant even today. It already oversees ten | :23:52. | :24:04. | |
sites. To coincide with the anniversary, the Museum of Ireland | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
has already had a ?1 million overhaul. | :24:08. | :24:14. | |
But there are ambitious plans to create new exhibition areas | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
and cafes to increase annual visitor numbers by 100,000. | :24:20. | :24:21. | |
This is where the money will be spent. This is the old Furnace, | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
where Abraham Darby perfected his iron smelting technique. All the | :24:28. | :24:35. | |
innovations that started here, from the cooking pot to irony reels and | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
the developments in industry, actually affect the way we live our | :24:42. | :24:43. | |
lives today. A few volunteers started off | :24:44. | :24:44. | |
the Museum Trust in 1967. One of its longest serving workers | :24:45. | :24:46. | |
says its come a long way since then When I started in 1982, the sites | :24:47. | :25:00. | |
were so much smaller and so much less happening and less available | :25:01. | :25:07. | |
for the public. And if the ?15 million renovation target is | :25:08. | :25:10. | |
achieved, the museum here should be a tourist attraction worthy of its | :25:11. | :25:18. | |
world Heritage status. What a place to soak up this wonderful sunshine. | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
Yes, it can go on. What ever is going on elsewhere in the region, | :25:23. | :25:35. | |
the weather has in mind of its own on the balcony. It is breezy up | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
here. It is looking settled. A couple of chilly nights. That is | :25:42. | :25:44. | |
something the gardeners need to be aware of if they have delicate | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
plants. During the day, it might not be quite as warm as it was today. A | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
good attempt at Spring. These were today's highs. Gloucestershire | :25:54. | :26:00. | |
airport recorded highs of 16 Celsius. As for the settled | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
conditions, that comes from the high pressure which is out on the south | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
west. A couple of fronts pushing through tonight. The high pressure | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
will establish itself across the region and country. That will also | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
just give us more settled conditions as they beat goes on and some chilly | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
nights as well. Let's take a look at that rain that is heading in from | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
the west. The cloud has been thickening. Earlier we had sunshine | :26:30. | :26:37. | |
but now cloudier. We can see those frontal systems pushing in. There | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
are two of them. The first one may pep up on occasion. The rain is | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
light and traversing the region quite slowly. That cloud and rain | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
keeping those temperatures up tonight. Tonight is not one of those | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
chilly nights. Eight Celsius. A dull start to the day tomorrow and damp. | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
Gradually, we will start to see those cloud layers being peeled back | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
and some pleasant spells of sunshine. Temperatures up to 14 | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
Celsius in the south west. Some rain in the south-east. Tomorrow is clear | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
and it is in those sheltered spots that we could see a touch of frost. | :27:15. | :27:17. | |
Thank you. I'll be back at 10.30pm | :27:18. | :27:18. | |
with your late update. We'll leave | :27:19. | :27:21. | |
you tonight with some The Sky Blues Song rang out | :27:22. | :27:22. | |
around Wembley yesterday - a song written by Coventry legend, | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
the late great Jimmy Hill. As she tries to distance herself | :27:28. | :27:49. | |
from her party's controversial past, | :27:50. | :27:54. |