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MPs from the Midlands have been speaking tonight about their shock | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
following the terror attack in Westminster. | :00:08. | :00:09. | |
Five people died, including an armed police officer and the man | :00:10. | :00:14. | |
Three schools from our region were on trips there today, | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
but all children and staff are said to be safe and well. | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
Numerous MPs, including many from this region, | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
spent most of the day locked inside the Palace of | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
Westminster as police carried out their searches. | :00:30. | :00:30. | |
Elizabeth Glinka has been following developments and joins me now. | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
Well, it has been a very dramatic day and to be honest things are | :00:34. | :00:42. | |
still unfolding as we speak. There have been some very upsetting scenes | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
and just like the rest of the country many people from the | :00:47. | :00:48. | |
Midlands have been caught up in this. Rob Lyon from Rugby was | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
walking along Westminster Bridge with a colleague when he saw the car | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
travelling at high speed towards pedestrians. When I saw the vehicle | :00:57. | :01:04. | |
mounted the curb, it was coming so quickly. I saw some people being hit | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
in front of me and I jumped into the road. I think one of the guys who | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
was hit came past me and I looked around me in shock because I could | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
see bodies and people and it was a real shock. And a number of | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
schoolchildren from the Midlands were there at a time. Three schools | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
from the Midlands were on trips to the houses of parliament today. They | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
were Rugby High School, Balsall Common Primary School and Holy | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
Family Catholic Primary School. We know that thankfully the pupils from | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
Rugby High School had just left before the incident started and the | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
children from Balsall Common Primary School were also safe and well. The | :01:41. | :01:42. | |
pupils from Holy Family Catholic Primary School were actually inside | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
Parliament when the incident began. We can see a picture of them from | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
earlier in the day actually on Westminster Bridge, as you can see, | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
where the attack started. Those children were involved in the | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
lockdown. They were inside Parliament but we know they were all | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
safe and released at about 6pm tonight. Lots of people caught in | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
the lockdown. Have they all been allowed to leave? The lockdown was | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
lifted earlier this evening after major searchers of the Westminster | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
estate conducted by armed police. As people started to come out we | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
started to get more the sense of what had been happening in their | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
drink the day, including from the West Bromwich MP Adrian Bailey. | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
We go into Parliament everyday and see these warnings about attacks | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
and danger and I think like a lot of people we just live with them | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
and don't take much notice but today it was a very uncomfortable | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
realisation that this was for real and I think we're really indebted | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
to all our security services and public services that work | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
so hard to insure that went reality does really write they're | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
That when reality does bite they are there to protect us. Paying tribute | :02:45. | :03:01. | |
to police there. We know that one officer was killed, two are being | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
treated in hospital. Now attention begins to turn to who this man was | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
and what was motivating him. Thank you. | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
A Birmingham man's been sentenced to 12 years in prison | :03:13. | :03:14. | |
Osmond Bell was found guilty of the manslaughter | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
But it was a piece of chewing gum and modern day DNA technology that | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
Our special correspondent, Peter Wilson has been | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
Nova Welsh was a happy, extrovert young woman aged just 24. | :03:26. | :03:34. | |
In July 1981 she was living in this block of flats | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
She'd recently split from Osmond Bell, the father | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
of her two children, complaining about his | :03:43. | :03:44. | |
Then one night, she simply disappeared. | :03:45. | :03:52. | |
Osmond Bell didn't report her missing. | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
He told friends that he thought she'd gone to London. | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
In fact, she'd been strangled, her neck broken. | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
But it wasn't for another three weeks that her body was discovered | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
The killer had forced the lock on the cupboard door. | :04:08. | :04:22. | |
he needed something to fix the lock to conceal her body. | :04:23. | :04:24. | |
The only thing he had was a piece of chewing gum. | :04:25. | :04:35. | |
To deceitfully show that that cupboard had not been forced open, | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
a piece of chewing gum was used to stick the lock back on and of | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
course with the advancements of DNA technology over the last 35 years, | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
we were able to send that piece of chewing gum off | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
and find Osmond Bell's DNA on that chewing gum. | :04:48. | :04:49. | |
This is the pink chewing gum turned brown by brick dust and dirt. | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
36 years later, because of that piece of gum, Osmond Bell was found | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
Her mother gave this reaction to his sentence of 12 years, | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
the death of a much loved daughter, sister and mother. | :05:01. | :05:15. | |
By all accounts he's been a good dad. | :05:16. | :05:22. | |
We understand that the boys, now grown men, are completely | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
bewildered, devastated, that their father has proved to be | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
Peter Wilson, BBC Midlands Today, Ladywood, Birmingham. | :05:29. | :05:40. | |
The UK's first factory dedicated solely to electric vehicle | :05:41. | :05:42. | |
The London Taxi Company's invested more than ?300 million | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
It'll create more than a thousand new jobs at a plant which'll be able | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
Here's our Transport Correspondent, Peter Plisner. | :05:52. | :05:58. | |
A massive leap forward for taxi technology. | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
Diesel engines are on the way out and in comes zero | :06:02. | :06:03. | |
Amongst the 1,000 staff being recruited here, | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
apprentices like Abbie Ferrar, braving a male dominated industry. | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
I just always wanted to do engineering and manufacturing. | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
My dad, he's a manufacturing engineer and I've always | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
This line of cars shows taxis through the ages, | :06:21. | :06:31. | |
all of which traditionally have been built in Coventry and the new | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
electric taxi is no exception, except this one's being built | :06:35. | :06:36. | |
But with a range of around 70 miles on one charge, London cabbies | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
The reality is at the moment in London there is one rapid charge | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
point within six miles of Charing Cross. | :06:48. | :06:48. | |
That's an absolutely crazy situation. | :06:49. | :06:50. | |
And they won't be cheap either - rumoured to have a price | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
tag of around ?50,000, although the company's chief | :06:54. | :06:55. | |
executive says lower running should balance things out. | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
When you look at the monthly payments in terms of buying | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
the vehicle coupled with what it costs in Peel, which will be much | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
the vehicle coupled with what it costs in fuel, which will be much | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
lower, coupled with the lower maintenance costs, actually | :07:13. | :07:14. | |
the monthly cost of running this vehicle is not only | :07:15. | :07:16. | |
competitive with today's, it's much better than today's. | :07:17. | :07:18. | |
Analysts maintain that it's a big vote of confidence in the region. | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
Massive investment by the Chinese in the UK and demonstrates | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
the confidence I think that the world has in designed | :07:26. | :07:27. | |
Four years ago, the old London Taxi company went bust. | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
Now it's entering a new era in it's 70-year history | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
with this new factory, and in the future they could also | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
be building electric vans as well as taxis. | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
Peter Plisner, BBC Midlands Today, in Coventry. | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
A special breeding programme is underway in the Black Country | :07:47. | :07:48. | |
Numbers of the black and white bagot goat have been fast diminishing - | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
there are now fewer than 200 females registered in the UK. | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
Laura May McMullan has been along to Sandwell Valley Country Park | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
to see the initial and endearing results of the programme - | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
Just over three weeks old, and still finding their feet. | :08:05. | :08:15. | |
They're the first baby Bagot goats to be born | :08:16. | :08:17. | |
since a special breeding programme was introduced last November. | :08:18. | :08:25. | |
It's quite overwhelming sometimes seeing new birth being brought in. | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
And it is amazing because we kind of saving the breed. | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
It's believed there are less than 200 registered breeding females | :08:33. | :08:41. | |
left in the country and so the aim of this conservation programme | :08:42. | :08:43. | |
Ivy, who I have to say is my favourite, is aged 14. | :08:44. | :08:57. | |
She produced two grade a embryos, which | :08:58. | :08:58. | |
insemination methods and so far four grade-A embryos have been harvested | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
them into the Rare Breeds Survival Trust's gene bank. | :09:04. | :09:14. | |
We are over the moon with the results we have had | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
This is the first time this has ever been done with primitive goats. | :09:18. | :09:25. | |
Bagots are the oldest breed in Britain | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
and it's hoped the fertility programme will now help to preserve | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
I'll leave you now with the weather from Rebecca. | :09:33. | :09:53. | |
Well, it certainly was a wet and miserable day today. | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
Temperatures really struggled underneath all that cloud and rain. | :10:00. | :10:01. | |
But steadily we started to see things brightening up and improving, | :10:02. | :10:09. | |
And that's a theme we'll keep as we head through the next few days. | :10:10. | :10:18. | |
For the night, we have got some clear spells to begin with but we're | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
slowly starting to see that rain band push its way back in, | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
so it is going to be a rather damp start to the day tomorrow. | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
Overnight at temperatures falling between one and three Celsius, | :10:29. | :10:30. | |
At steadily, high pressure is going to force at low pressure | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
system out of the way and that's what brings that rain | :10:37. | :10:38. | |
But once it has cleared, we will start to see | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
So it is going to be a damp rush-hour but eventually the cloud | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
thinning and breaking across the North Midlands, | :10:47. | :10:48. | |
the sun coming out and temperatures are going to start to recover. | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
We should see them pushing up to 11 Celsius once again. | :10:52. | :10:53. | |
So we are slowly starting to head in the right direction. | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
That high-pressure settling things down as we head | :10:57. | :10:57. | |
decent day. Saturday could be a much better day, with some sunshine. | :10:58. | :11:05. | |
It certainly was a pretty wet day across parts of the country, lots of | :11:06. | :11:14. | |
downpours around. This is a picture | :11:15. | :11:15. |