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Good evening. news where you are.

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Police are hunting a gang of up to 200 bikers who caused ch`os

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on the streets of Solihull and Birmingham last night.

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Seven people have been arrested and ten motorbikes seized,

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but the so-called Halloween Ride-Out was just the latest in a series

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of incidents in the area in the last few months.

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All quiet there tonight, Nicola It is a very different scene tonight.

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Last night, this road was crammed with bikers who were driving without

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causing damage to vehicles. People causing damage to vehicles. People

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here simply want to know who is behind it and the police want to

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catch those people who they describe as criminal.

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These are the 200 bikers police are describing as "a menace".

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Riding scramblers, quad bikds and mopeds, the gang hijackdd

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the road in Kings Norton just after 9pm last night.

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The group wasn't just out for an evening ride.

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A police van was attacked and there are reports fireworks

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Hundreds of bikes came, like, loads of them.

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I was like, whoa, what's going on here?

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About 150 of them, really loud, skidding across the road,

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Are they causing any danger to people on the roads

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Many of the riders had their faces covered as they sped along roads,

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jumped red lights, weaved through traffic

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Officers say their actions were illegal

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and they're looking for those involved.

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These people do pose a thre`t to ordinary members of the public.

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I have a lot of sympathy for members of the public

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and then encountering this lot on the roads.

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We have described them as a menace and that is exactly what thdy are,

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In Leeds, similar scenes filmed last night.

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All part of what's being called a Halloween ride-out,

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and it seems to have been organised and choreographed

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This was shot two weeks ago in Kings Norton.

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It has been like this now on and off for about two months now.

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They ride round with no hellets on, no number plates,

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no lights, so it is getting out of hand.

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This event scared locals, but at least one biker was hurt too,

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suffering chest injuries after colliding with a car.

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So, Nicola, what are the police say they are doing about this?

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The police say these types of events are very difficult to plan for,

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especially where you have slall groups of bikers speeding off

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in different directions, as it makes it is hard for officers

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However, they say they are running a long-term operation to tackle

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the problem and they are working closely with Birmingham Citx Council

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They also say that if a member of the public suspects anyone

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is using a bike illegally or has a stolen bike

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A school in Shropshire had to apologise to nearby residents,

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after the bomb squad was called in to blow up a bottle of chemicals

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Thomas Adams in Wem was one of three schools in the Midlands which had

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The Shropshire school says they didn't have time

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to send out a warning and were following official advice.

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It was the noise that got the Shropshire town of Wem talking.

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For those living nearby, last night's explosion came

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And they didn't expect it to make such a big bang!

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I walked to the school to sde what it was about,

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because everyone said it was a bomb that had gone off.

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So I went to see what it was, but it wasn't.

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The answer to that can be found at the Thomas Adams School.

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Over half-term, they receivdd an e-mail warning them

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about a chemical used by A-level students, which stated...

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This chemical is an orange to red powder that if it becomes dry,

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can become explosive on the friction turn.

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So, with the container, if the lid was to be opened

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The school checked and found it did have an old bottle of the chemical,

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so they called the police, who called the bomb squad.

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The bomb disposal team came from Tewkesbury.

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They got the chemical and btried it about one foot in the ground.

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And then, at six minutes to eight, they detonated the substancd.

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And now this is all that relains from the Wem explosion.

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Wem is a quiet market town and people aren't used

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Certainly having a bomb disposal squad, as seen around the town,

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probably sparked a little bit of interest.

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But I think people have perhaps panicked slightly

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With all the school's stock of the chemical disposed of, things

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A video has emerged which appears to show a football fan being pushed

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over by a West Midlands polhce officer at Sunday's game between

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The video was posted online earlier today.

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The force's Professional St`ndards Department says the highest

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standards are expected from officers and anyone who's acted

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The Government's come under further pressure to give financial support

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to the families of the victhms of the Birmingham pub bombings.

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Fresh inquests are due to bd held into the 21 victims

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Relatives want the same sort of funding provided for famhlies

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Labour's Justice spokesman Richard Burgon raised the issue

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in the Commons earlier, which drew this response

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In terms of the debate about how we deal with these very difficult

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inquests in this very speci`l category of cases, and made it clear

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in the debate that the Home Office and the Ministry of Justice

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are working on that, looking at the precedents

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of what happened with Hillsborough, waiting for Bishop James Jones'

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report and also we will look at all the matters that havd been

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who're winning over millions of fans online

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and earning thousands of potnds from the videos they post.

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Peter Plisner has been to mdet the digital entrepreneurs -

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a young gamer who gets paid to test video games and a young wom`n

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who has fashion blogging and a new clothing line all sewn up.

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Meet the YouTube generation - young people earning thousands

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This is professional YouTubdr Fred Pye making his latest video

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He's a big fan of the video game Grand Theft Auto and millions

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of people log in to see how he plays the game.

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He spends most of the day m`king videos, and they're

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This one pitting a tram against a series of tanks,

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has been seen by more than a million people.

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And that means that what was once a hobby for Fred

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I told my friend I wanted to earn enough to maybe pay rent

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or something or just get by and stuff.

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But that was three or four years ago, or something.

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Then a few years later, it's just kind of...

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YouTubers like Fred earn thdir money from adverts placed

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It is thought they receive on average around $2 for evdry

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Fred's YouTube channel gets on average around

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so that would mean he could be earning $20,000,

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And some YouTubers also makd money thorough sponsorship deals.

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It makes sure your under eyes don't...

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And blogger Habiba Da Silva does just that.

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Around a million people a month watch her makeup videos, recorded

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For her, YouTube provides the ideal medium.

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They relate to me because I am just like anyone else, I am not really

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an actress, I am not someone on a TV channel

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I am literally being myself, and the genuineness on soci`l media

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really attracts people a lot more than TV nowadays.

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And for Habiba, YouTube poptlarity has also helped her launch

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It's proof that you don't nded expensive studios

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and a big advertising budget to make it big.

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One football result to bring you this evening

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and in League One, Coventry City beat Chesterfield 2-0 at hole.

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The wind stretches their unbeaten home record to 14 matches. That s

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all from me, I will leave you with a forecast.

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Good evening. Now we are into November, it is as though someone

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has flicked the switch and temperatures are starting to slip,

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as you probably felt today that it wasn't helped by the foggy lorning,

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which lifted into plenty of cloud across the region. As you c`n see

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from this last photograph, there was a chink of clear skies by the end of

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the day and that is going to continue through the night. It is

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going to be called unfairly frosted in the countryside, dry and clear.

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What he's doing it is this `rea of high pressure building in from the

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west, things settled. The frontal system that produced rain today is

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well ahead to the south and the next front comes in and by the thme you

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to Thursday, it comes in from the west and will produce rain but at

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the moment, quite settled and dry, it is clear, very cold in the

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countryside, temperatures dhpping to freezing waters below. For towns and

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cities those of two Celsius and we could get patches of mist in the

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morning. Tomorrow, a cracking day, dry and highs of 11 Celsius.

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couple of days, frosty mornings before turning unsettled. Good You

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know what, in evening. the last few days, much

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more following the calendar. A warm end to October, 1st November, abrupt

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change to the weather. In fact over the next few days, we will be

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getting colder air all the way from the north, almost from Arctic

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regions, a real nip in the air particularly for folks getting up

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early in the morning A good frost around and there is a frost on the

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way tonight. This is what is happening on the satellite. This

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ribbon of cloud is a cold front Watch the clouds in the north. See,

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they are coming in from the north, where the air is coming from. This

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cold front is moving southwards and away from us and the colder air in

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the north is oozing down across the UK and by the early hours of

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Wednesday, we are all in the

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