26/03/2017 Midlands Today

Police investigating the attack in Westminster have arrested

a 30-year-old man in Birmingham today on suspicion of

They've also been searching a flat in the Hockley area of the city

which was believed to be regularly visited by the attacker,

Another Birmingham neighbourhood disrupted by police activity

as officers as officers piece together the movements

of the Westminster killer Khalid Masood.

Specialist search teams removed bags of evidence from a property

Masood lived nearby and visited the maisonette.

The police searches began in Hagley Road in Birmingham

on Wednesday, hours after Masood ploughed into pedestrians

on Westminster Bridge before killing a policeman.

Three days ago, this flat was the subject

No signs of anything untoward, life is back to normal.

Along with a 30-year-old man arrested today, a 58-year-old

One terrorism expert believes the city has been unfairly portrayed

Just label an entire community as being some sort of enemy within,

it just plays into the hands of these terrorists in terms

of generating alienation and that leads inevitably to small

Shaheed Butt from Birmingham was once labelled a terrorist himself.

He was jailed in Yemen on charges he still strongly denies.

I know there's a bit of hostility and a bit of, you know,

distrust amongst the community, but ultimately if we are

we're going to have to come to some sort of a compromise

and we are going to have to work together.

One senior officer admitted today though, we may never know

why Masood chose to go on his murderous rampage.

Police are investigating the death of a 55-year-old man who was found

with serious head injuries at an address in Kidderminster.

Paramedics were called to a property on Offmore Road

on Friday night and took the man to hospital.

A 22-year-old man from Kidderminster has been arrested.

A man and woman from Telford have been arrested in connection

with a series of armed robberies in Shropshire last week.

The first incident took place at Lloyds Bank,

There were further robberies at Barclays, in Shifnal,

and a One Stop Shop, in Market Drayton, on Friday.

The pub in Lichfield where the Staffordshire Regiment

was formed 312 years ago this weekend has re-opened

Nothing new there you'd think, apart from the fact that the new owners

are themselves a group of former Staffords who've taken

on the lease to save a piece of regimental history.

Ben Sidwell went along to the opening.

Making a quick advance into their spiritual home.

On this weekend in 1705, in the King's Head in Lichfield,

Colonel Luke Lillingston signed up his first recruits

to what would become the Staffordshire Regiment.

We could be sitting in the very spot where Colonel Luke Lillingston

enscripted his first troops into his regiment.

All around the pub, reminders of the regiment's long history.

Even the new landlord is a former corporal.

To actually be asked to run the pub is beyond

It was an honour to be approached, to do it.

I didn't even have to think about it for a second,

Earlier in the day, before the official opening,

hundreds of veterans marched through Lichfield.

The city's streets brought to a standstill by onlookers.

Guest of honour, a many times great-grandaughter

I didn't think I would get so emotional.

I haven't had a very close relationship with the regiment

and association, but in the last few years, I have really

It's something we never dreamed would happen.

It's as though the regiment has finally come back home.

Not only is The King's Head the oldest pub in Lichfield

and of course the home of Staffordshire Regiment,

it is also believed to be the first pub ever in this country to be owned

by a regiment and if trade continues like this,

And that's something worth drinking to.

In today's rugby, Wasps remain top of the Premiership after beating

Worcester by 40 points to 33, but the Warriors still earn two

bonus points in their fight against relegation.

Time for a look at the weather now with Jennifer Bartram.

It has spent a lovely weekend of weather and the week ahead looks

like it will be fairly mild. Tonight there will be a few clear spells,

cloud pushing in from the East with temperatures of four or 5 degrees. A

few spots could see Frost. Chilly first thing on Monday. A bit of mist

and fog and as you can see, more in the way of cloud. But it will store

Phil Miles, temperatures of 14 Celsius. A light easterly breeze.

Tuesday, a little bit more unsettled, a stronger breeze and

heavy showers. I will be back at 10:20pm. Until then, have a good

evening. Goodbye. For the first time this year, the

temperature reached 20 Celsius, the highest recorded in Highland

Scotland, lovely picture from earlier on. We have seen more cloud

around today, mostly thin, high cloud, but some coming from the near

continent, we are seeing more spilling in from the North Sea, so

some changes on the way. Still, the temperatures will drop quickly, low

cloud and misty weather coming in from the North Sea later in the

night to conflict the radiation balance. Cold overnight, more chilly

in the south, the winds are lighter than last night, a touch of frost

more possible towards the north-west of the UK. Not quite as cold or

Northern Ireland, more cloud here, not as warm as today, a great start

from East Wales, north-east England, a lot of low cloud and misty weather

will burn off, most of us enjoying some sunshine. Where