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Hello and welcome to Midlands Today. so it's goodbye from me - | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
The headlines tonight: Countdown to June eighth | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
With four weeks to go until the general election, we are in Dudley, | :00:08. | :00:15. | |
gauging the public mood. Also tonight: Celebrating the best | :00:16. | :00:17. | |
of the great outdoors: Join me later at the foot of the | :00:18. | :00:28. | |
Malvern Hills at what is firmly the best spring gardening in Britain. | :00:29. | :00:35. | |
Join me and the boxing girls to find out why they're film stars today. | :00:36. | :00:36. | |
And temperatures in the twenties and lovely sunshine today, | :00:37. | :00:38. | |
but the gardens need a drink, and it's on the way, | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
find out more with me a little later. | :00:42. | :00:56. | |
With exactly four weeks to go until polling day, | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
nominations have now closed for candidates standing | :01:01. | :01:02. | |
So today was always going to be a big moment for those seats | :01:03. | :01:09. | |
where there are slim majorities in the run-up to June the 8th. | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
And that was even before the leak of Labour's draft manifesto. | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
Our political editor Patrick Burns is here to survey | :01:16. | :01:17. | |
Our part of the country has generally been much more | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
of a two-party affair than most other areas of Britain, | :01:21. | :01:22. | |
with our clusters of marginal seats, flip-flopping back and forth | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
between Labour and the Conservatives. | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
And there are so many of them, that they really do have a genuine | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
There's no clearer demonstration of this than Dudley. | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
A town with two marginal seats, one Conservative, the other Labour. | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
And it's from there that Ben Godfrey reports. | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
It's a beautiful day in Dudley North, a seat held by | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
Labour since its creation in 1987 but high on the | :01:48. | :01:49. | |
We've come to, yes, Corbyn Road to see what people are thinking. | :01:50. | :01:57. | |
First we met Mandy Yerster, an undecided voter who wants | :01:58. | :01:59. | |
the next Government to champion social care. | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
Giving single parents a little bit more leeway, childcare, | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
because my son is autistic, a little bit help with regards | :02:09. | :02:10. | |
I haven't really heard anything yet as regards to social care. | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
With decent support for Labour, the Conservatives and Ukip in this | :02:17. | :02:18. | |
area, it's no surprise the big hitters have been pounding | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
Far from getting ready for the next politician to visit - | :02:22. | :02:32. | |
Lyndon Corbett - just to clear it up, he's the Corbyn Road beekeeper | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
would welcome a ban on zero hours contract hours. | :02:36. | :02:37. | |
Lyndon also runs a business providing home care to locals. | :02:38. | :02:39. | |
It would be beneficial because we don't get paid | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
Basically, when you're doing a 15-minute call | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
for an old-age pensioner, you don't have enough time | :02:46. | :02:47. | |
to communicate with them and that's what they need most of all. | :02:48. | :02:54. | |
Retired shop worker Betty had a bee in her bonnet when I caught up | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
What would you like the next Government to do for you? | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
Well, I'd like them to put this country straight. | :03:03. | :03:04. | |
There is a lot of men in London, they aren't in the real world. | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
The are in cuckoo land and my bus is here and I'm off. | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
At the barbershop nearby, we met one young businessman | :03:14. | :03:21. | |
Definitely with the NHS, I think they should plough | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
Policing, any of the public services. | :03:25. | :03:31. | |
Some polling experts suggest Dudley North may turn blue | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
in fours weeks' time, but on on Corbyn Road we found many | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
We went back to Mandy's house, she makes a living as a psychic. | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
Who's going to win the general election? | :03:45. | :03:45. | |
That's for me to know and you not to! | :03:46. | :03:55. | |
Even the psychics sitting on the fence! | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
Patrick, you've just said our local marginal seats | :04:01. | :04:02. | |
And yet you're telling us that this will be an election like no other. | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
Instead of just taking the poll ratings and applying them | :04:08. | :04:15. | |
to the swings required in the familiar Nuneatons, | :04:16. | :04:17. | |
Tamworths and Cannocks of this World, you have to view it | :04:18. | :04:19. | |
through the prism of Brexit, in a region where most voters | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
But now Ukip aren't standing in three North Birmingham seats | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
currently held by Labour, a boost for the Conservatives there. | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
Three of Labour's other Birmingham seats could also be vulnerable | :04:32. | :04:33. | |
to Conservative challenges, including Edgbaston, where | :04:34. | :04:35. | |
On the other hand Labour will have Telford in their sites. | :04:36. | :04:42. | |
They need a swing against the Conservatives of | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
The "front line" does appear to be shifting in other cities too. | :04:47. | :04:54. | |
Stoke, Wolverhampton and Coventry are solid blocks of red | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
But Labour face serious Conservative challenges in Stoke South, | :04:58. | :05:07. | |
All places where Vote Leave won big last June, so expect Brexit to loom | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
The Lib Dems' prime target here is Cheltenham. | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
They need a 12% swing to win it back from the Conservatives. | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
They have a strong anti-Brexit message in a town which voted | :05:22. | :05:23. | |
But with a month to go, there's ample time for some | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
unexpected twists turns before polling day. | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
Drayton Manor Park in Staffordshire will be closed again | :05:32. | :05:33. | |
tomorrow following the death of a schoolgirl from Leicester. | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
11-year-old Eva Janneth was on the Splash Canyon Rapids | :05:37. | :05:38. | |
on Tuesday when she fell into the water. | :05:39. | :05:40. | |
The park closed yesterday as a mark of respect and remained closed today | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
so health and safety officials can complete their investigations. | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
Sarah Bishop is at the park for us this evening. | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
Sarah, a number of other theme parks have closed their water | :05:54. | :05:55. | |
rides since Eva's death, including Alton Towers | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
and Thorpe Park, do we know any more about how safe these rides are? | :06:00. | :06:07. | |
I've been speaking to a theme park safety expert | :06:08. | :06:14. | |
who told me these water rides are generally perceived as pretty | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
safe, come under same safety law as roller coasters and are subject | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
to same strict maintenance and fatigue checks. | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
He'd done some calculations on Drayton Manor ride, | :06:24. | :06:25. | |
which he reckoned been used by between 20 and 30 million people | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
He only found one documented incident of someone | :06:29. | :06:35. | |
But that doesn't account for how people act when they're on the ride. | :06:36. | :06:48. | |
There is speculation that Eva may have stood up to switch seats. | :06:49. | :07:00. | |
her death is the first serious injury accidents here at Drayton | :07:01. | :07:08. | |
Manor in its 67 year history. Have Eva's family said any more? We had a | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
heart wrenching statement from them yesterday in which they said their | :07:15. | :07:23. | |
world had been torn apart. They have asked to be left alone to grieve in | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
private. The postmortem takes place on Monday and we are thinking they | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
will have the funeral midweek in Leicester. | :07:33. | :07:40. | |
Think they're anticipating many people will want to come | :07:41. | :07:42. | |
and pay their respects as tragic circumstances of Eva's death | :07:43. | :07:44. | |
In the last laugh, we've had a statement from the park saying it | :07:45. | :07:51. | |
will be closed again tomorrow well investigations continue. -- in the | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
last hour. A man's been charged | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
with using drones to fly drugs and mobile phones | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
into Birmingham Prison - the first prosecution of its kind | :08:02. | :08:03. | |
secured by West Midlands Police. Drones were allegedly used to drop | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
contraband into an exercise yard at the jail in October | :08:07. | :08:08. | |
and November last year. 27-year-old Michael Tovey, | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
from Erdington, is set to appear before Birmingham | :08:12. | :08:12. | |
magistrates in June. The inquest into the death | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
of Tahnie Martin, struck by debris in high winds as a result | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
of Storm Doris in February, Further investigations need | :08:21. | :08:22. | |
to be made into the death of the 29-year-old who was hit | :08:23. | :08:30. | |
by a piece of timber outside A 57-year-old Palestinian man has | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
been charged with murdering Birmingham University student | :08:34. | :08:41. | |
Hannah Bladon in Jerusalem The 20-year-old, from Burton | :08:42. | :08:43. | |
upon Trent, was stabbed multiple times as she was travelling | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
on a tram near the Old City. Hannah was in Israel as part | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
of an exchange programme. If you work outside, or play sport, | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
then you'll be particularly Recent research says working | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
in the sun could lead to one death and five new cases | :08:58. | :09:04. | |
of melanoma every week. Mel Jones from Shropshire was first | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
diagnosed around 20 years ago. He was treated, but then it came | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
back and he's now been In his twenties, he worked | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
as a beach lifeguard. Laura May McMullan | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
has been to meet him. First being diagnosed with melanoma | :09:19. | :09:26. | |
22 years ago and again in 2014. This time it's stage | :09:27. | :09:36. | |
4 and incurable. Melanoma is such a cruel | :09:37. | :09:38. | |
and unpredictable disease and I wouldn't want anyone to go | :09:39. | :09:40. | |
through what I've gone through, the surgeries, | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
the shock, the anxiety. The father from Shrewsbury has been | :09:44. | :09:51. | |
undergoing immunotherapy In his youth, he spent years | :09:52. | :09:53. | |
working on the beaches Undoubtedly, the sunshine I had then | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
is instrumental in melanoma that I would urge people to cover up | :09:59. | :10:06. | |
because that's easier than putting on sun block and having | :10:07. | :10:16. | |
to reapply it. Doctors say it's vital | :10:17. | :10:18. | |
for us to apply sun cream BEFORE we go in the sun, | :10:19. | :10:25. | |
and that's because we all have a different burning threshold - | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
when our skin starts to turn pink. Sunscreen helps to combat the sun's | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
harmful rays in two ways - by either reflecting them | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
like a mirror or absorbing Without protection, solar radiation | :10:35. | :10:36. | |
could start to penetrate the skin Mutations occur in skin cells, | :10:37. | :10:50. | |
which grow out of control, It's a message being drilled home | :10:51. | :10:53. | |
to those who work outdoors. Construction workers | :10:54. | :11:05. | |
are at the highest risk of skin cancer, due to long hours | :11:06. | :11:07. | |
of sun exposure. We've brought a UV camera | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
to this Wolverhampton site You can see some sun damage | :11:12. | :11:13. | |
on your cheeks, nose, and forehead. I wasn't surprised to see | :11:14. | :11:27. | |
I have damage to my skin. Without doubt, having seen | :11:28. | :11:34. | |
what has been evident, I've been sunburnt and after seeing | :11:35. | :11:36. | |
this today, I would, The Society of Dermatologists reckon | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
there are over 1,000 new cases of skin cancer diagnosed every year | :11:41. | :11:50. | |
and that four out of five He's urging others to stop burning | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
up and instead cover up. It's got more Michelin-starred | :11:54. | :12:11. | |
restaurants than any other place outside London - | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
hardly surprising then that so many people are opting to sample | :12:16. | :12:22. | |
Birmingham's culinary delights. But one restaurant says it's | :12:23. | :12:24. | |
losing thousands of pounds because people aren't showing up | :12:25. | :12:26. | |
despite booking a table. But is it right for | :12:27. | :12:28. | |
restaurateurs to get tough? Our business correspondent | :12:29. | :12:30. | |
Peter Plisner's been getting Birmingham is home to 5 | :12:31. | :12:32. | |
Michelin-starred restaurants. As a rule they tend to take your | :12:33. | :12:41. | |
card details when you book. They can charge a hefty cancellation | :12:42. | :12:48. | |
fee. The big chain restaurants | :12:49. | :12:51. | |
behind me don't do that But at many smaller places, | :12:52. | :12:53. | |
if people don't show, then they stand to lose | :12:54. | :12:56. | |
a lot of money. An increasingly popular | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
restaurant close to Birmingham's New Street Station, | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
it's reckoned that last week alone they lost ?1,000 | :13:04. | :13:05. | |
because of no shows. Its head chef says | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
that's not sustainable. It varies week to week, | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
there are no hard or fast rules but to give you an idea, | :13:16. | :13:24. | |
we have 24 seats, so if one table of two decides not to show, | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
that's almost 10% of our I have five chefs with me | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
in the kitchen, I have five people out in front, | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
it's a fine balancing act and it has Now it may seem like a pretty | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
controversial step to take, but speaking to people earlier | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
today, most seem to I can understand their point of view | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
and I can understand their position, but they could lose trade | :13:45. | :13:52. | |
because we're not used to it I think that's fair enough if it's | :13:53. | :13:54. | |
a small restaurant and you don't If it's a big chain | :13:55. | :14:01. | |
that was proposing to do this, I think I'd probably | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
have the opposite opinion. Well, joining me here Birmingham | :14:08. | :14:09. | |
food blogger, Laura Creaven. I think it's a really positive move. | :14:10. | :14:19. | |
I think the Wilderness have been very vocal about their cancellations | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
and no shows and it's a problem affecting a lot of smaller | :14:25. | :14:26. | |
restaurants in Birmingham, smaller ones can't handle people not showing | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
up because it has lost revenue. It's not really different from a | :14:32. | :14:34. | |
cancellation charge if you feel to cancel in time. Absolutely not. It's | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
similar to what you would do if you are looking to go to the cinema or | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
the future, he would be expected to pay upfront. you think it will put | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
people off? I don't think it will put people off, I think people who | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
want to go to exciting restaurants like the Wilderness will pay up | :14:53. | :14:54. | |
front and considered it an investment into an exciting night. | :14:55. | :15:01. | |
Some say they make even charge a fee for the cheapest four course meal so | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
you're paying for the wholemeal upfront. That's similar to what you | :15:06. | :15:08. | |
would do if you are going to the theatre for the cinema, you would | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
pay upfront for that's why not do it for your dinner? I was Birmingham | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
doing for the food front? It's a positive, vibrant scene, especially | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
street food and a Michelin star restaurants, it's an exciting time | :15:22. | :15:27. | |
for dining out in Birmingham. as Lorna said, they do tend to pay | :15:28. | :15:30. | |
upfront for many things these days, so why not a meal at a restaurant? | :15:31. | :15:33. | |
-- you do tend to pay upfront. Time for sport and Dan | :15:34. | :15:35. | |
is here to tell us about a thriving A football league set up to make | :15:36. | :15:38. | |
the sport cheaper for players in deprived areas of Birmingham | :15:39. | :15:41. | |
is going from strength to strength. That's not their only | :15:42. | :15:44. | |
ambition though. The Community Sunday League also | :15:45. | :15:45. | |
wants to improve the public image of some of the areas | :15:46. | :15:48. | |
where the players live. Nick Clitheroe has been | :15:49. | :15:50. | |
to see them in action. Different generations united | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
by a love of football. Khurram and Abdulhamid both know | :15:55. | :15:56. | |
what it's like to grow up in deprived areas of Birmingham | :15:57. | :15:59. | |
but also what sport can do Kids look up to you and they will be | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
like, we want to play football, we want to go on the right path, | :16:03. | :16:09. | |
we don't want to stay hanging around on the streets, | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
selling drugs and going into crime The community that I live in, | :16:14. | :16:15. | |
football has kept me off the streets and get me away from things other | :16:16. | :16:25. | |
people were doing. It's something to look forward | :16:26. | :16:28. | |
to and lean back on. That's just one of the ambitions | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
of the Birmingham Community The idea is also to make the sport | :16:33. | :16:34. | |
cheaper and accessible. What I thought I'll do different | :16:35. | :16:41. | |
is provide the football pitches so we've got a local area so we sort | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
out the pictures and other teams It's a cheaper way for | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
teams to get involved? Exactly and because we are setting | :16:49. | :16:55. | |
it up for the community, A lot of areas in Birmingham | :16:56. | :16:58. | |
are in the news for the wrong reasons so hopefully by providing | :16:59. | :17:06. | |
these kind of activities, we're The idea has proved so popular | :17:07. | :17:08. | |
a new division will be This was a league game between | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
Sparkhill United and Alum Rock FC. On the 20th of May they meet again | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
in the cup final at the Hawthorns. The league has come a long way | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
from street corner football. The Pears against | :17:23. | :17:31. | |
the Bears tomorrow. It's a game with a much more meaning | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
for one side than the other. Worcestershire have had a good | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
start to the season. Warwickshire are bottom. They have | :17:41. | :17:55. | |
nothing to play for. Warwickshire lost, it's a disastrous start to | :17:56. | :18:02. | |
them at the moment. They may get respite tomorrow because the weather | :18:03. | :18:05. | |
is better. We'll have the forecast later. I watched Warwick today at | :18:06. | :18:13. | |
Derby, Derbyshire and it's a beautifully but it's tough when you | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
keep losing. -- they played beautifully. | :18:18. | :18:19. | |
If you're lucky enough to take in a varied, | :18:20. | :18:21. | |
vibrant and veritably verdant view out of your window, | :18:22. | :18:23. | |
it might include ivy, hydrangeas, fuchsia, | :18:24. | :18:25. | |
We have the Victorians to thank for bringing | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
The great explorers of the day travelled the world. | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
Ben Sidwell's not gone quite as far as that, | :18:36. | :18:37. | |
but he did make it to Malvern on the trail of plant history. | :18:38. | :18:45. | |
Yes, welcome to the plant finder parlour. This is at the IHS -- RHS | :18:46. | :18:58. | |
at Malvern. 19th century explorers would have returned with exotic | :18:59. | :19:01. | |
species like these ferns which they were very excited about. As I been | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
finding out, many of these plants are now commonplace in all our | :19:06. | :19:06. | |
gardens. In the shadow of the Malvern Hills, | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
some of the greatest flora and fauna the world has two offer and for | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
this, we need to thank the Victorians which is what they're | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
doing this year at RHS Spring Festival. At the heart of the floral | :19:22. | :19:24. | |
marquee is the plant finder's parlour, designed by Joe Swift. It | :19:25. | :19:34. | |
is important to the intrepid explorers who search the world of | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
exotic plants. They would search for months on end, some of them would | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
never come back, someone come back with broken legs and they would go | :19:43. | :19:48. | |
in search for clients and bring them back in Edwardian cases because they | :19:49. | :19:50. | |
couldn't figure out how to get the plans back. you don't have to go far | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
to find species Victorians brought back far shores. These carnivorous | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
plants are from Malaysia and Indonesia. It was brought on by the | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
Victorians and remains in cultivation today so that wasn't for | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
the plant hunters, they wouldn't be in conservation. There was one type | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
of plant that surprisingly got the Victorians more excited than any | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
other. Now grown in abundance in Warwickshire, in the 19th century | :20:17. | :20:22. | |
can get enough of ferns -- couldn't get enough. There was a period known | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
as fair and fever and they went mad for building little got was like | :20:28. | :20:30. | |
this where the theories could live and the imagination was amazing. | :20:31. | :20:37. | |
Today we are just as captivated by horticulture. 400 people will come | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
to the showground in Malvern, making it the biggest gardening show | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
outside of London. I've been going to Chelsea since 1868. I'm very fond | :20:47. | :20:54. | |
of it. If you were to say to me you can pick one sure way you like | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
being, this wins for me, hands down. from award-winning show gardens to | :21:00. | :21:06. | |
pupils from local schools who are just beginning their gardening | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
journeys, the Victorians would be amazed that the plans they risk | :21:11. | :21:13. | |
their lives to discover are now common sites in gardens across the | :21:14. | :21:14. | |
country. There will be talks over the next | :21:15. | :21:23. | |
three days he led the show about some of those explorers, well worth | :21:24. | :21:26. | |
going to see, and some beautiful displays as you can see as well all | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
around and if you do want to see some more, our colleagues at | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
Gardners' World have been here and that will be on tomorrow night on | :21:36. | :21:36. | |
BBC Two. If you're a loyal BBC One viewer, | :21:37. | :21:39. | |
you might recognise little films like the one you can see behind me - | :21:40. | :21:42. | |
impressively energetic We call them BBC idents - | :21:43. | :21:44. | |
they're the pictures we use over the continuity announcements to tell | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
you what programme's on next. The films aim to provide a portrait | :21:49. | :21:55. | |
of Britain, and yes, all the people in them are real | :21:56. | :21:57. | |
people with a shared passion. Now it's the turn of | :21:58. | :22:00. | |
the boxers from Birmingham. We've known for a few weeks now | :22:01. | :22:10. | |
and we thought we would get together Seven women boxers - | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
stars for the day, chosen Renowned photographer | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
Martin Parr is directing, on a mission to celebrate | :22:22. | :22:24. | |
the nation, using ordinary people. When they first came out, | :22:25. | :22:37. | |
people didn't really know what was going on, so there was, | :22:38. | :22:54. | |
people werea bit mystified rolled out, people are | :22:55. | :22:57. | |
beginning to understand that it's like a portrait of Britain | :22:58. | :23:00. | |
through these different groups. A team of 20 spent three hours | :23:01. | :23:02. | |
capturing the action. The Women's Boxing Club was set up | :23:03. | :23:05. | |
to meet a growing interest in the sport inspired | :23:06. | :23:08. | |
by Olympian Nicola Adams. We want people to communicate, | :23:09. | :23:10. | |
we wanted the girls from different backgrounds to communicate | :23:11. | :23:12. | |
and it works. Nobody is above anybody | :23:13. | :23:14. | |
and nobody is below, This is the latest ident | :23:15. | :23:16. | |
to be unveiled on BBC One The women boxers are confident | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
their film will be just as slick. People forget how hard it is doing | :23:22. | :23:24. | |
shoots again and again. How easy we all just fell | :23:25. | :23:26. | |
into it and went with it. It was really good, we had | :23:27. | :23:32. | |
a good time, really good. Judge for yourselves | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
when the best images from today's shoot hit our television | :23:37. | :23:38. | |
screens next month. We'll have the weather in just a | :23:39. | :23:55. | |
moment, but look at this. This was yesterday afternoon in Shropshire. | :23:56. | :24:02. | |
The nationwide plant hire company have a large dusty yard and this is | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
what is known as the dust tornado or dust devil. Thank you to Stewart for | :24:07. | :24:14. | |
sending us those pictures. Very dry in Shropshire but I'm told it will | :24:15. | :24:15. | |
not stay that way tomorrow. Rebecca. Changes on the way but it has been | :24:16. | :24:24. | |
pleasant today. The wind has picked up so it may be windy through | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
tonight but it was a break but chilly start to the day today, | :24:29. | :24:31. | |
temperatures touching freezing in parts of Shropshire but helped by | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
sunshine through the day. We saw the temperatures rise by 20 Celsius in | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
some spots. Lovely sunshine but through the afternoon, we started to | :24:41. | :24:43. | |
see the cloud filtering in, making the sunshine here at times and | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
finally, for the Gardners, something to give them a sky of relief, we | :24:48. | :24:54. | |
started to see rain pushing in. Heavy downpours and lightning | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
flashes in there as well. As for tomorrow, we're going to continue to | :24:59. | :25:01. | |
see the chance of some showers but they will be some sunny spells | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
around those as well. For tonight, high pressure that has been driving | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
our weather for the past few weeks has skidded out of the way. We got | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
low controlling the weather and that is going to start to introduce | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
something more unsettled so through tonight, we're going to see some | :25:18. | :25:20. | |
showers working there way northwards and those showers are going to | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
introduce something a little bit muddier overnight so temperatures | :25:25. | :25:34. | |
are at ten to 13 -- more muggy. We will get some brighter breaks. More | :25:35. | :25:41. | |
cloud and showers following behind but the showers will be triggered by | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
that unstable atmosphere. The cloud might have hail and thunder in there | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
and temperatures will be down on where they are today but by the end | :25:51. | :25:53. | |
of the day they will ease as we lose the powder from the sun and we will | :25:54. | :25:56. | |
see them dying out overnight but it will be another muggy Knight. As for | :25:57. | :26:05. | |
Saturday, a drier affair with the odd shower around. It is definitely | :26:06. | :26:13. | |
some rain in the forecast. It's good news for the Gardners but if you | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
like the sunshine you will have to wait a little bit. | :26:19. | :26:21. | |
I'll be back at 10:30 with your late update. | :26:22. | :26:25. |