02/04/2017 Midlands Today

Good evening, Coventry City football club have won their first silverware

for 30 years after beating Oxford United 2-1 at Wembley to lift

More than 40,000 fans travelled to the national

Well, Dan Pallett is still at Wembley.

That was some performance from the Sky Blues, Dan.

It certainly was. The fans probably travelled and hope rather than

expectation after the season they have had. Oxford United were the

favourites, are the underdogs needed a good start and I got it. Scoring

after just 11 minutes. What a after just 11 minutes. What a

weekend for this player who has also become a father. The might of been

an element of luck about that goal, but you certainly can't say that

about George Thomas's strike. Fantastic touch and half volley,

which put them 2-0 up. Oxford United's substitute scored with 50

minutes to go, Seward was nervous towards the end but they hung on.

They are Wembley winners again, 30 years on from winning the cup final

here. This has been a very difficult

season for the fans. Did that make victory

even sweeter for them? It certainly does. It has been a

fabulous crowd here. 74,000 people. It is a new record for this

competition at the new Wembley Stadium. Outside there was a strange

mixture of fans, many celebrating and others are moaning their owners

and watching the owners to sell. This is what a few had to say to me.

We won the cup! Reed I want more from Coventry. I want to see today

again and again and again. It's just fantastic. Brilliant. I couldn't

believe it was going to happen but it has and I am pleased. We are not

a fourth division team, we should be a lot higher. We have proven what

potential we have. The pain went away and the fans across the country

can celebrate. Absolutely. A student whose mother and teenage

brother were stabbed to death at their home in Stourbridge has

confirmed that the man charged with their murders had been

helped by her family. Lydia Wilkinson returned

to the family home this morning Visiting her family home,

18 year old Lydia Wilkinson returning for the first time

since her mother and 13 year old brother died after being stabbed

at the house in Stourbridge As she crouched down

she read dozens of moving tributes pinned to flowers,

the walls, laid on the pavement. Then a statement from

the Bristol University student paying her own tribute

to her mother, Tracey, and her brother, Pierce,

whom she described as a fun-loving, friendly and happy boy

who loved computer games. Her mother she said was loving,

caring and a wonderful Of no fixed address, appeared before

Birmingham Magistrates charged Lydia was keen to correct

recent press speculation. In her statements, she made it clear

that the family did not offer refuge to homeless people. Aaron Burley had

never led to the family home, though he had been offered assistance by

them in the past 12 Lydia's father, Peter Wilkinson,

who suffered serious stab wounds, Her own flowers to her Mom

and the brother she calls Pippin bares the message,

"we love you more than words Aaron Barley is due to appear before

Birmingham Crown Court tomorrow. Hundreds of veterans who served

during the Falklands conflict have gathered

at the National Memorial They were marking the 35th

anniversary of the Argentine Amongst them the family of Ben Casey

from Stratford-upon-Avon. He was the first serviceman to be killed during

the campaign. Everyday he is in my heart. With him being the first

casualty, I don't know... I'm just so overwhelmed. The attack on HMS

Coventry led to the loss of 19 lives. The ship was hit by Argentine

bonds and sank within 20 minutes. You are reminded of the shipmates, I

lost 19. That is very emotional. I was 18 when I went down there. You

become more reflective. It has been indelibly stamped on my life. Those

who set sail joined in world which lasted ten weeks. More than three

decades on, the commitment to commemorate those events is

commemorate those events is undiminished.

Let's have a look at the weather forecast now, here's Rebecca Wood.

Temperatures up to 14 or 15 Celsius today, helped by that sunshine. More

to come next week but a chilly night tonight." That average is falling.

Dipping down quite low, particularly in parts of Herefordshire read it

could be as be as low as one Celsius. A touch of frost is not out

of the question for some sports. Once the sun comes up, it will boost

those temperatures. A pleasant day with lots of lovely sunshine. Cloud

by the afternoon, with temperatures up to a possible 15 Celsius. A band

of rain moving through tomorrow night into Tuesday, but once that

has cleared it will be much better, settles conditions for the rest of

the week. I'm back with the late

bulletin at 10:22pm. It was a lovely second part to the

weekend for most parts of the UK, lots of sunshine, more cloud to the

east but in the last few hours it started to melt away and the process

will continue, most places seeing lengthy clear spells overnight and

much like last night it will turn a bit chilly. We might see mist and

fog, like winds, more of a breeze in the north and west, cloud and patchy

rain approaching the Western Isles by the end of the night. Eight or 9

degrees but in rural parts of Scotland England and Wales it will

get to the bottom end of single figures. Frost will not last long in

the morning nor will the mist and fog, England and Wales will have a

lovely day with good sunshine and wins coming up from the