:00:00. > :00:07.earlier this evening. There will be more on that and
:00:08. > :00:11.It's been confirmed that almost 400 prisoners have now been moved out
:00:12. > :00:14.of Birmingham Prison, since riots on Friday.
:00:15. > :00:17.Specially trained prison officers took back control of the jail
:00:18. > :00:21.late on Friday night, after more than 12 hours of chaos.
:00:22. > :00:24.Stairwells were set on fire and paper records destroyed
:00:25. > :00:27.during trouble in four wings of the category B prison,
:00:28. > :00:31.Today the Justice Secretary ordered a full investigation
:00:32. > :00:41.New footage emerged today of gleeful inmates running amok on the four
:00:42. > :00:48.wings of HMP Birmingham seized by rioters.
:00:49. > :00:51.For 12 hours or more, a prison in the grip of anarchy.
:00:52. > :00:59.Outside today, I met a man whose brother and cousin are inside.
:01:00. > :01:03.I'm really worried about them, because they were walking around
:01:04. > :01:09.It was really tense because most of them are locked down.
:01:10. > :01:15.They are letting a few people out only at a time for food.
:01:16. > :01:23.Periodically, vans emerge, the risoners thumping
:01:24. > :01:25.-- Periodically, vans emerge, the prisoners thumping
:01:26. > :01:27.on the sides as they go, part of a series of
:01:28. > :01:31.Originally, we were told 240 inmates were to be transferred.
:01:32. > :01:33.We now believe that figure to be closer to 400.
:01:34. > :01:36.It appears the rioting started with inmates clambering onto safety
:01:37. > :01:42.One was unhappy because of a problem with a health care appointment.
:01:43. > :01:46.So-called tornado squads of prison officers emerged late on Friday,
:01:47. > :01:49.spattered in paint, having restored order.
:01:50. > :01:52.Just six weeks ago, a board of independent monitors warned
:01:53. > :01:56.about the growing prevalence of Mamba and other new psychoactive
:01:57. > :02:04.Drugs has always been in jail, as you know yourself,
:02:05. > :02:08.but it seems that Spice has made it a difficult task to get
:02:09. > :02:11.It's exposed a lot of cracks in the system.
:02:12. > :02:14.This has been coming for at least two or three months.
:02:15. > :02:17.They believe it has been ignored, and it has culminated
:02:18. > :02:24.Evidence is being gathered for a police investigation into the riot.
:02:25. > :02:32.Four wings were so badly damaged they are currently unusable.
:02:33. > :02:34.Bob Hockenhull can bring us more on this now.
:02:35. > :02:36.Bob, the Justice Secretary made an announcement
:02:37. > :02:42.Liz Truss admitted it'll take months to resolve the problems
:02:43. > :02:48.She said levels of violence like that seen in HMP
:02:49. > :02:51.Birmingham are unacceptable and insisted her planned reforms
:02:52. > :02:57.including recruiting 2,500 extra staff
:02:58. > :02:59.across the country will help reduce trouble
:03:00. > :03:04.It is important to remember that these problems have developed
:03:05. > :03:07.over a number of years, and it will take time
:03:08. > :03:12.and concerted effort to turn this situation around.
:03:13. > :03:17.While these reforms take hold, we are continually working to reduce
:03:18. > :03:24.risk and ensure stability across the prison estate.
:03:25. > :03:27.During the Commons debate, Labour accused the Government of losing
:03:28. > :03:34.The Shadow Justice Secretary Richard Burgon said there had been warnings
:03:35. > :03:37.of a crisis since 2010 and cutting thousands of prison staff had
:03:38. > :03:39.A convicted paedophile from Birmingham has become
:03:40. > :03:42.the oldest person in Britain to receive a prison sentence.
:03:43. > :03:45.Ralph Clarke is 101 years old and last week was found guilty
:03:46. > :03:47.of carrying out a string of sexual offences against young children
:03:48. > :03:51.Today he was sentenced to 13 years in prison.
:03:52. > :04:00.On the surface, he's a frail old man but Ralph Clarke was a serial sex
:04:01. > :04:02.offender who abused three very young children 40 years ago.
:04:03. > :04:06.After suffering in silence for decades, last year they found
:04:07. > :04:10.the courage to tell the police and to come to court to face the man
:04:11. > :04:16.That guy sees it as his God-given right, and it wasn't.
:04:17. > :04:24.He has damaged so many lives, so many lives in such a massive way
:04:25. > :04:30.Even now, he cannot see he has done wrong.
:04:31. > :04:33.He's evil and he deserves to be in prison.
:04:34. > :04:44.To be honest, they have got me a thank you card here.
:04:45. > :04:46.All it says is they are so happy to be believed.
:04:47. > :04:49.That's all they ever wanted, for people to believe them
:04:50. > :04:52.and for them to listen to him in court and know he is
:04:53. > :04:57.He shook his head today in court when his crimes were detailed.
:04:58. > :05:04.His victims were in tears as they saw him for one last time.
:05:05. > :05:06.Ralph Clarke used fear and intimidation to control
:05:07. > :05:11.He took full advantage of their very young age and the situation in order
:05:12. > :05:19.Judge Richard Bond said, even though it was a deeply
:05:20. > :05:21.upsetting experience for the victims, the case
:05:22. > :05:25.He said those who were sexually abused even in the distant past can
:05:26. > :05:27.rest assured that any complaint will be treated with
:05:28. > :05:34.And the victims, who I spoke to just after they left court,
:05:35. > :05:36.said they were glad Ralph Clarke was going to jail.
:05:37. > :05:38.He should have been in prison 40 years ago.
:05:39. > :05:46.People like him should never come out, never come out.
:05:47. > :05:49.We have been in our own prison for the last 40 years.
:05:50. > :05:54.Clarke can't be released on licence until he has
:05:55. > :05:57.served half his sentence, when he will be 108,
:05:58. > :06:00.so it is likely the man who abused three little children decades ago
:06:01. > :06:08.will die in jail, the oldest man ever sent to prison.
:06:09. > :06:11.After almost 90 years of production, one of Wolverhampton's major
:06:12. > :06:13.employers is to finally close this week.
:06:14. > :06:16.Goodyear has been making tyres at the Bushbury Lane site
:06:17. > :06:21.At its height the factory employed 7,000 workers.
:06:22. > :06:24.But in June last year the company said it was closing the plant
:06:25. > :06:31.Police have named a man who was stabbed and killed
:06:32. > :06:35.23-year-old Ibrahim Ismail was found on Moseley Street in Highgate
:06:36. > :06:41.A postmortem examination revealed wounds to his chest and back.
:06:42. > :06:43.Detectives have launched a murder inquiry and are
:06:44. > :06:50.It's been a day to remember for campaigners working to secure
:06:51. > :06:53.the future of Dudley's former Hippodrome theatre.
:06:54. > :06:56.The keys were handed over to them as the council agreed
:06:57. > :07:00.It was a particularly special moment as the theatre opened its doors 78
:07:01. > :07:06.Here's our Arts Reporter Satnam Rana.
:07:07. > :07:08.The scene was set - an audience awaiting,
:07:09. > :07:15.The real work can start to finally see that building restored
:07:16. > :07:20.to its own natural beauty, and once again entertainment
:07:21. > :07:28.The main prop - a bunch of keys, unlocking the future
:07:29. > :07:31.Campaigners have fought hard to save the Art Deco building.
:07:32. > :07:37.Now they've been given a five-year lease by the council.
:07:38. > :07:40.Wonderful, because we can now start work in there, clearing it out,
:07:41. > :07:45.and we now need to get the next stage going.
:07:46. > :07:49.The next stages are, of course, fundraising.
:07:50. > :07:51.We need to raise funds for feasibility studies,
:07:52. > :07:55.we need to find out what needs to be done to get the building repaired.
:07:56. > :07:56.We've got to get the services connected.
:07:57. > :08:00.And then we've got to look at what we need to put inside it
:08:01. > :08:05.In its heyday, the theatre was a magnet for great entertainers.
:08:06. > :08:07.George Formby was a regular, and comedy duo Laurel and Hardy
:08:08. > :08:16.The venue closed seven years ago, having been transformed
:08:17. > :08:24.So what's made the council hand out the five-year lease?
:08:25. > :08:27.We simply haven't got the money to be able to invest in this.
:08:28. > :08:30.But what we've done is worked with the Friends Of The Hippodrome
:08:31. > :08:33.to at least give them the opportunity to raise that
:08:34. > :08:35.revenue, to bring acting life back to the Hippodrome,
:08:36. > :08:42.In all, ?10 million is needed to reopen the building.
:08:43. > :08:45.Plans include a side extension and a glass frontage.
:08:46. > :08:51.In five years' time, it's hoped that the curtain
:08:52. > :08:53.will once again be raised here at the Dudley Hippodrome.
:08:54. > :08:56.But this time, not just as a theatre, but also a multi-use
:08:57. > :09:06.venue, hosting both sporting and cultural events.
:09:07. > :09:10.We'll be back in Breakfast tomorrow morning from six here on BBC One.
:09:11. > :09:12.Until then, enjoy the rest of your evening.
:09:13. > :09:15.I'll leave you now with the weather for the week
:09:16. > :09:21.If we can say one thing about the weather for the week ahead
:09:22. > :09:25.Quite cloudy conditions on the whole but turning windier and more
:09:26. > :09:30.It is not all doom and gloom as we go towards Christmas.
:09:31. > :09:32.There are some brighter spells in the forecast as well.
:09:33. > :09:34.Some drizzly rain around at the minute.
:09:35. > :09:37.The high-pressure that has been keeping those weather fronts at bay
:09:38. > :09:40.is slowly moving out of the way and we do have some low-pressure
:09:41. > :09:47.Tonight, plenty of drizzly showers around.
:09:48. > :09:50.They will slowly fizzle out in the early hours.
:09:51. > :09:52.A few patches of mist here and there and lows
:09:53. > :09:59.As we look forward towards tomorrow, we will continue on a grey note
:10:00. > :10:02.to begin with but then some brighter spells coming in, in between.
:10:03. > :10:12.Then looking ahead we have got some more cloudy conditions coming
:10:13. > :10:17.A band of rain moving across the region as well for a time
:10:18. > :10:20.and then lows of around two Celsius so we may see a patchy
:10:21. > :10:25.This is what is happening on the pressure charts.
:10:26. > :10:28.Isobars squeezing together so we expect windier conditions.
:10:29. > :10:30.Some more fronts coming across which could bring
:10:31. > :10:41.On Wednesday, once the rain has moved through, we have some drizzly
:10:42. > :10:43.conditions around but later on in the day some slightly brighter
:10:44. > :10:49.Thursday and Friday, a similar picture, lots of cloud around.
:10:50. > :11:04.The rest of the weekend, some rain around, windy, but with dry and
:11:05. > :11:16.bright spells. Heavy weather is brewing, it will
:11:17. > :11:21.not reach us just yet. It will take a good few days before the stormy
:11:22. > :11:24.weather reaches us. At the moment, it's just potential, nothing is
:11:25. > :11:30.certain, but it will be different to what we've had over the last few
:11:31. > :11:34.weeks, it's been so calm. We have a jet stream raging out of North
:11:35. > :11:40.America making a beeline for the UK. It has peaked at jet level height,
:11:41. > :11:45.blowing in excess of 200 mph, and it might whip up to max storms we are
:11:46. > :11:47.watching. Friday had coming close to northern Britain, and then another
:11:48. > :11:49.one