:00:09. > :00:14.There are fears for a young girl tonight after she was hit
:00:15. > :00:18.It happened this afternoon in the Bell Green area of the city.
:00:19. > :00:21.Our reporter Sian Grzeszczyk is there for us tonight.
:00:22. > :00:28.Sian what more do we know about what happened?
:00:29. > :00:35.West Midlands Police tell us there were called here to the Henley Road
:00:36. > :00:41.just off the junction with the old Church Road at around four o'clock
:00:42. > :00:44.today, home time for many schoolchildren returning hole this
:00:45. > :00:53.evening. The area was sealed off hours. This is not officially
:00:54. > :00:59.confirmed but many of the pdople I have spoken to locally belidve the
:01:00. > :01:00.young girl has died but certainly no official confirmation from the
:01:01. > :01:01.police of that. What's been the reaction
:01:02. > :01:11.from people living in the area? Within the last hour and few
:01:12. > :01:16.minutes, many people have started to bring flowers hereto seen. There
:01:17. > :01:22.were tears and a few childrdn who tied these flowers to the r`iling. I
:01:23. > :01:26.spoke to one woman called Claudia who told me what she saw earlier.
:01:27. > :01:29.Loads of ambulance, police, fire engines and a lot of people just
:01:30. > :01:31.hanging around to find out what is happening.
:01:32. > :01:33.The thing is, a lot of
:01:34. > :01:34.accidents have been happening around you.
:01:35. > :01:35.It's happened to me, it's
:01:36. > :01:38.The police have to do something about it.
:01:39. > :01:41.Where's the traffic wardens to help people across the
:01:42. > :01:58.Clearly, the local communitx is shocked about what happens. We wait
:01:59. > :02:01.for further updates from West Midlands Police. Thank you.
:02:02. > :02:04.And for the very latest on this tune into BBC Coventry Warwickshhre's
:02:05. > :02:08.breakfast show with Trish and Jo from six o'clock tomorrow morning.
:02:09. > :02:10.A father and son who ran a multi-million pound brothdl
:02:11. > :02:12.in Birmingham are tonight bdginning a 27 month jail sentence.
:02:13. > :02:15.Achilleos and Stephanos Neophytou ran the Libra Club in the Jdwellery
:02:16. > :02:25.The court heard how they employed prostitutes who were seeing around
:02:26. > :02:38.The judge said the pair ran the Libra Club for five
:02:39. > :02:42.Take a look inside the Libr` Club - at what police found
:02:43. > :02:45.The glitterball - the dimmed lights of a dance floor.
:02:46. > :02:48.The VIP area with hot tubs and Jacuzzis and no business
:02:49. > :02:50.is complete without a price list and there's plenty of those
:02:51. > :02:53.in one of the largest brothdls Brmingham has ever seen.
:02:54. > :02:56.We took that decision to make sure the
:02:57. > :02:58.club remained closed and we safeguarded the girls who worked
:02:59. > :03:05.This case is best described in numbers.
:03:06. > :03:09.20, the number of prostitutds who worked here, 1000 clients
:03:10. > :03:21.The Libra Club was owned by 66 year old Achilleos Neophytou -
:03:22. > :03:24.who left the fish and chip shop trade to open massage parlotrs.
:03:25. > :03:26.His son Stephanos ran day-to-day operations -
:03:27. > :03:29.After pleading guilty to running a brothel last month,
:03:30. > :03:32.Neophytu senior told Midlands Today he'd merely been a 'public servant'.
:03:33. > :03:51.Greece was running out of money and we lend them to Tsipras.
:03:52. > :03:53.The authorities aren't convinced his so-called bushness has
:03:54. > :03:59.We will seek to recover that money under the proceeds of crime act and
:04:00. > :04:07.if they fail to pay it back it will mean their sentences are increased.
:04:08. > :04:10.CCTV images show the club being targeted by a gang.
:04:11. > :04:12.A man's seen firing a gun into the brothel -
:04:13. > :04:17.on another occasion they trx to torch the building.
:04:18. > :04:23.The father and son received 27 months jail terms.
:04:24. > :04:27.Community orders were handed down to receptionist Ohgun Olufunloa
:04:28. > :04:33.Brothel madams Anita O Donndll and Maralyjn Egan -
:04:34. > :04:40.she was found with ?28,000 `nd 00 Viagra tablets in her home.
:04:41. > :04:43.Have you anything to say about your part in this club?
:04:44. > :04:45.Martin Tierney was a photographer at the Libra Club -
:04:46. > :04:49.and he wasn't shy of our caleras until the judge gave him a ten
:04:50. > :04:52.month jail sentence, suspended by the judge for two years ,
:04:53. > :04:58.Ben Godfrey, BBC Midlands Today, Birmingham.
:04:59. > :05:01.Police have named a man from Brierley Hill who died
:05:02. > :05:03.after being stabbed in the stomach at the weekend.
:05:04. > :05:06.24-year-old Mansoor Mahmood was found outside the Dixi Chicken
:05:07. > :05:07.diner on High Street on Saturday afternoon.
:05:08. > :05:16.Police suspect it was a targeted attack and they're appealing
:05:17. > :05:18.for anyone with any information to contact them.
:05:19. > :05:21.Relatives of some of those killed in the Birmingham pub bombings 2
:05:22. > :05:24.years ago have been meeting MPs in London today.
:05:25. > :05:27.It's part of their campaign to get financial support to pay for lawyers
:05:28. > :05:31.21 people died when bombs exploded at two city centre pubs in 0974
:05:32. > :05:34.The families are asking for the same granting of legal aid as applied
:05:35. > :05:43.Here we are as you say, one month away from
:05:44. > :05:49.they still don't know where they stand as regards their legal
:05:50. > :05:54.An inquest is about the truth and we're not going to go
:05:55. > :05:57.there if the families have no representation against a st`te with
:05:58. > :06:05.Sadly this is all too common for bereaved families.
:06:06. > :06:08.The BBC has learnt that 12 NHS GP practices and urgent care cdntres
:06:09. > :06:10.across the West Midlands are ultimately owned by a company
:06:11. > :06:17.Malling Health exchanged bank loans with an interest rate of 4%
:06:18. > :06:20.for a loan at 20% interest with the owner of Bahamas b`sed
:06:21. > :06:23.The company says this arrangement is more flexibld,
:06:24. > :06:25.but experts claim it's a wax of diverting money
:06:26. > :06:31.Our health correspondent, Michele Paduano reports.
:06:32. > :06:34.What do this GP surgery in Coventry, a hospital based urgent
:06:35. > :06:37.care centre in Dudley, a GP practice in West Bromwhch
:06:38. > :06:39.and a walk-in centre inside the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital
:06:40. > :06:44.Well, they are among 50 NHS outlets ultimately owned
:06:45. > :06:46.by a company, Butterfly Ventures, based in the tax haven
:06:47. > :06:53.I am surprised it is not national health,
:06:54. > :06:58.I did not realise things got privatised out.
:06:59. > :07:05.I do not see what that has to do with medical practices.
:07:06. > :07:10.Butterfly Ventures based in this tropical paradise
:07:11. > :07:14.bought Malling Health for ?6.2m last year
:07:15. > :07:18.through one of its companies - IMH Group.
:07:19. > :07:21.When Malling Health was bought, it had loans of nearly
:07:22. > :07:23.?4m with two high street Banks, Lloyds and Santander.
:07:24. > :07:25.Interest on these was paid at less than %.
:07:26. > :07:28.These were paid off and loans arranged with an interest r`te
:07:29. > :07:32.of 20% with David Hudaly and Butterfly Ventures therdby
:07:33. > :07:38.moving money out of the UK tax area and into a tax haven.
:07:39. > :07:40.So both very high rates of interest which is
:07:41. > :07:43.a way of diverting the monex from the companies which ard
:07:44. > :07:55.group companies in the Bahalas so they don't have to pay t`x.
:07:56. > :07:57.So we took our information to Emma Reynolds MP
:07:58. > :08:01.She says she'll raise it with Government.
:08:02. > :08:04.I will certainly be taking this matter up with the Health Sdcretary.
:08:05. > :08:07.I would like to know why thhs private company has taken on a loan
:08:08. > :08:12.In a statement IMH said that repaying its bank debt
:08:13. > :08:16.to deliver its programme for its practices and patients.
:08:17. > :08:18.It therefore secured alternative funding.
:08:19. > :08:20.The payments currently paid on this funding are materially
:08:21. > :08:23.lower than repayments being paid on the bank debt.
:08:24. > :08:30.IMH is appreciative of the continued support and flexibility
:08:31. > :08:33.That may be so but at a timd when the NHS generally
:08:34. > :08:43.that interest will have to be paid at some time in the future.
:08:44. > :08:47.Two cyclists have been praised for helping to rescue three elderly
:08:48. > :08:51.passengers who were trapped in their car at a notorious ford
:08:52. > :08:54.The pensioners were stranded as water rapidly rose
:08:55. > :08:56.around them at Trescott Ford on Sunday.
:08:57. > :08:59.Steve Trice and his cycling mate jumped into action to help save them
:09:00. > :09:02.by pulling two through a window and levering the sunroof off
:09:03. > :09:09.Onto football and results in the Championship tonight
:09:10. > :09:11.Birmingham City are up to fhfth after beating Rotherham
:09:12. > :09:14.Elsewhere, Wolves lost 1-0 at Brighton.
:09:15. > :09:16.Burton Albion were beaten 2-0 away at Ipswich.
:09:17. > :09:20.And Steve Bruce has his first win as Villa Manager after his
:09:21. > :09:27.Jordan Ayew with a penalty in the 90th minute.
:09:28. > :09:29.And in League One, Coventry are off the bottom
:09:30. > :09:34.Port Vale also drew 1-all with Charlton.
:09:35. > :09:37.And Shrewsbury have replaced Coventry at the foot of the table
:09:38. > :09:43.after a 3-0 defeat at home to Sheffield United.
:09:44. > :09:45.And that's almost all from the late team.
:09:46. > :09:47.We'll be back tomorrow mornhng from six during BBC Breakfast.
:09:48. > :09:49.I'll leave you now with the weather from Shefali.
:09:50. > :10:03.Thank you. Good evening. We reached our predicted highs today and
:10:04. > :10:04.together with the sunshine, we got a lot of great photographs from
:10:05. > :11:14.Good evening. As you've just seen from your local outlook, not a huge
:11:15. > :11:19.amount changes over the next few days. The weather patterns will be
:11:20. > :11:22.blocked again. What is driving that? It's a deep area of low pressure,
:11:23. > :11:27.the remnants of hurricane Nicole in the Atlantic. That's heading towards
:11:28. > :11:31.Greenland. Set to pile up the snow here, metres of it in the next few
:11:32. > :11:35.days. It's dragging a lot of warm air into the North Atlantic on the
:11:36. > :11:38.Eastern flank. What that does is build this, high pressure. That s
:11:39. > :11:43.not going to move a great deal over the next few days. To the east, low
:11:44. > :11:45.pressure in place. That means Eastern England always prone for
:11:46. > :11:50.further showers through the rest of this week. For the rest of the UK,
:11:51. > :11:53.largely dry, some sunny days, but also rather cool nights and a few
:11:54. > :11:54.misty mornings. Some of you start that way