08/04/2017 Midlands Today

Good evening. Grand National. Clive.

Hundreds of balloons have been released in memory of a 20-year-old

man from Birmingham, who died earlier this week.

Declan Sullivan was a promising footballer, mentor and youth worker.

A sea of green, for a young man who friends say always had

A keen footballer, Declan had previously tried out

for some big named clubs, but his home was

He'd played there since he was a boy -

growing up with the club and the players.

But most importantly, he had time

for everyone, whether it was an

It's hard to take, because of the kind of person that he was.

You would not expect something like this to happen.

He was such a bubbly character, he

would come in, you could see him

have been left at the side of the A38,

where Declan fell from a bridge in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

There are so many flowers, candles and messages here -

all saying something similar to this one, which reads 'Declan was always

After volunteering as a youth worker 5 years ago,

If there was a bit of tension in the room, he

He was that guy, always a massive smile on his face.

He lit up the room when he walked in.

An inquest into his death was opened and adjourned yesterday.

Louisa Currie, BBC Midlands Today, Birmingham.

West Midlands Police says an English Defence League rally

in Birmingham city centre passed off without any major disorder.

Around a hundred protestors gathered at Centenary Square this

afternoon after marching from New Street station.

A counter protest took place at Victoria Square.

Two arrests were made for alleged breaches of the peace.

A man's been arrested as part of a fraud investigation

into a fundraising page for a West Mercia Police dog.

A social media page was launched to help raise money for retired

Sergeant David Evans to keep his dog, Ivy.

But the Force has insisted the animal had to be returned.

A 32-year-old man from Market Drayton has been arrested

on suspicion of fraud and released while investigations continue.

The Liberal Democrat candidate for West Midlands Mayor

launched her manifesto today in Wolverhampton with a promise

Beverley Neilsen says she want to focus on improving

opportunities for people of all ages, tackle congestion

If we want a plan that is really going to change things,

that will offer hope, that is going to deliver

to keep our young talent in the region

and to grow our small and medium-sized businesses,

to nurture the engineering and innovation that

is changing the world at the moment, then we need a Lib Dem mayor.

On to football now and in the Premier League,

Stoke City lost 2-1 at home to Liverpool, while West Brom

also went down 1-0 to Southampton at the Hawthorns.

In the Championship - Birmingham City lost 2-1

It was a bad day for Wolves as they lost 3-1 to Bristol City,

and it was a 1-1 draw between Burton Albion and the Villa

In League One - Port Vale lost away to Chesterfield,

while Coventry escaped relegation for now with a 1-0 win

at Peterborough, Shrewsbury beat Rochdale 1-0, and Walsall drew

One result in League 2 - Cheltenham drew 3-3 at Wycombe.

And in the Vanarama National League - it was a bit of a shocker

for the Solihull Moors as they lost 9-nil to Tranmere.

That really is a bad day at the office, isn't it.

Time for the weather now and it's been a glorious day -

What a glorious weekend we have had so far.

It stays dry and fine as we head through this evening.

It won't be as cold as it was last night.

Temperatures will drop down on average to about 7 degrees.

There will be a bit of patchy mist first thing.

But it's another good start to the day.

Dry and fine, good spells of sunshine

and actually, if anything, tomorrow it will be that bit warmer with

temperatures getting to around 19 to 20 degrees.

You can see that cloud building in, that will continue to

feed down from the north-west, introducing cooler, fresh air.

Your next working week will be more typical for this time of year,

Midlands Today will be back tomorrow evening, just before 7pm.

What a spectacular day to day. Hardly a cloud in the sky. Just

clear blue skies around. A nice picture here from Lincolnshire.

This evening and overnight will turn quite chilly. There will be a touch

of brass frost. This is the satellite image from early on. Not

often do we see pictures like this. Just a little bit of cloud in the

North West of Scotland and that is pretty much it. This evening,

starry, starry skies. The temperatures will dip away. It is

cold enough for a bit of grass Frost. Another beautiful day across

England but very