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a bit of and the west midlands a bit of an outlier, had a strong performance with an investment increasethe back of the commonwealth games and using that to leverage investment into the region.— that to leverage investment into the region. what you have shown in your _ into the region. what you have shown in your report _ into the region. what you have shown in your report is - shown in your report is encouraging because one of the real concerns last year was the cancellation of the full run of h52, the cancellation of the full run of hs2, the train line, that was supposed to go from london to manchester but the government decided no, we cannot, it is not financially viable to go beyond birmingham and what that meant in terms of the signals to foreign investors of which are there were many on that project. and also other foreign investors who have chosen to investors who have chosen to invest in various things surrounding that project. there was worried this would put people off investing in the uk. yes. i think it would be fair to say the situation has been mixed over the last couple of

jessica parker, thank you very much in the west midlands.are all exhausted. 0ver in the west midlands. they are all exhausted. over the last six weeks we been following all the campaigns in the nations in the uk and now on the eve of polling, are nation reporters share their thoughts... of the election in scotland, wales and northern ireland. asi as i have been crisscrossing the country, there has been a row about the premise trick on the election during the scottish holiday with some voters disenfranchised because they have not receive their postal ballots in time. in the background there is always this issue of the constitution would break and independence both arousing strong emotions. the independence both arousing strong emotions. ., , ., , ., emotions. the conservatives had their best result _ emotions. the conservatives had their best result in _ emotions. the conservatives had their best result in decades - emotions. the conservatives had their best result in decades in . their best result in decades in wales— their best result in de

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not the tax has been on the rise across england is the worst in the west midlands. were campaign as a cooling for the government to do more to keep young people safe, then of ascending the, which results from bombing a hello, tonya was a very happy go lucky. the daily in san daniel was killed. he was celebrating a new job. the 26 year old was out with friends when he was stabbed, and black to death, the attack ending a bright future that was just on the horizon on that day. he was really, really happy. and davis planning is where they was planning a mortgage that was probably the one of the happiest days of his life. and i never saw him again. we missed him when we seemed constantly and wish we still look for in the day. and so it can feel like it only happened yesterday. you know, we've never really moved on for the what keeps lane going now is promoting these medical kids that can still pleading several have been installed in bothering him what his son died and in other cities across the case assigned perhaps of a white the problem. nice crime, a rule has been ris

west midlands police have released the images as they renew an appeal for anyone with information tos report distressing from the start. plascom road in wolverhampton two weeks ago, just after 1am in the morning. a figure dressed in dark clothing approaches a house where a family are sleeping. listen to the banging on the window. tapping. as the glass shatters and the pane is pulled away, they put something through it. within seconds, the home goes up in flames and they run away. this incident left akashdeep singh, a 26—year—old man, dead and four others injured. the cctv footage and this photo from inside the house have been released by west midlands police to encourage people to come forward with information. it's distressing because it is very unusual. this is a very unusual event. and certainly this is why we need to bring the people responsible for this to justice as quickly as we can. two weeks on, and this is what the house looks like now. the family have described the victim as a loving son, and two of them remain in hospital. the hope is that soon they will get some answers

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so here we're in norton canes in the west midlands. all, in nottinghamshire, in the east midlands. and what we're getting to now are two things that we've seen in the kind of arc of this campaign, uh, from the beginning and then all the way through, which is that you've seen the two main leaders aspiring to be prime minister returned to their main theme. so keir starmer talking about change and rishi sunak talking about the dangers of a big labour win and the dangers, as he sees it, of the tax burden spiralling higher under labour. etc, etc. and then you've also seen rishi sunak campaigning in seats that were held by the conservatives in the last parliament and some seats, frankly, that have been held by the conservatives in pretty much every parliament that you can possibly think of very safe possibly think of — very safe conservative seats like hinckley in leicestershire, like witney in 0xfordshire. david cameron's former seat and keir starmerfighting in seats that have been conservative held, as you'd expect, any leader of the opposi

so here we're in norton canes in the west midlands. ucknall, in nottinghamshire, in the east midlands. and what we're getting to now are two things that we've seen in the kind of arc of this campaign, uh, from the beginning and then all the way through, which is that you've seen the two main leaders aspiring to be prime minister returned to their main theme. so keir starmer talking about change and rishi sunak talking about the dangers of a big labour win and the dangers, as he sees it, of the tax burden spiralling higher under labour. etc, etc. and then you've also seen rishi sunak campaigning in seats that were held by the conservatives in the last parliament and some seats, frankly, that have been held by the conservatives in pretty much every parliament that you can possibly think of very safe conservative seats like hinckley in leicestershire, like witney in 0xfordshire. david cameron's former seat and keir starmerfighting in seats that have been conservative held, as you'd expect, any leader of the opposition to do, but also ones

west midlands police have released the images as they renew an appeal for anyone with information to, just after 1am in the morning. a figure dressed in dark clothing approaches a house where a family are sleeping. listen to the banging on the window. loud banging. as the glass shatters and the pane is pulled away, they put something through it. within seconds, the home goes up in flames and they run away. this incident left akashdeep singh, a 26—year—old man, dead and four others injured. the cctv footage and this photo from inside the house have been released by west midlands police to encourage people to come forward with information. it's distressing because it is very unusual. this is a very unusual event. and certainly this is why we need to bring the people responsible for this to justice as quickly as we can. two weeks on, and this is what the house looks like now. the family have described the victim as a loving son, and two of them remain in hospital. the hope is that soon they will get some answers about who was responsible for what happened here. navtej johal, bbc news, w

across england and wales, apart from london in the west midlands , from london in the west midlands,nd wales, we have registered more deaths than births. birth rates are at the 21 year low now at the same time, you have an older population which expects to have their cake and eat it. they expect to keep the triple lock. they expect to keep the retirement age as it is, and they expect all of the other benefits that we have in the social care system and the health and care system. how exactly are we going to continue this way when we're not having enough children, we don't have enough children, we don't have enough , people to work in these enough, people to work in these industries . enough, people to work in these industries. so something has to give. >> we need more children, bigger families. i've got six children. as my viewers probably know . as my viewers probably know. >> service. thank you. i'm doing my bit. >> thank you very much to rob and stella coming up, why is the metropolitan police failed to solve 99% of 10,000 london street thefts? we'll be discussing that with former

o'clock and were expecting keir starmer labour leader in the next few minutes and he is out in the west midlandsith just parker and a correspondent is on the liberal democrat campaign bus. i{fruits liberal democrat campaign bus. quite a wide range — liberal democrat campaign bus. quite a wide range in _ liberal democrat campaign bus. quite a wide range in the _ liberal democrat campaign bus. (zei its a wide range in the number of liberal democrat campaign bus. iei it9 a wide range in the number of seats that the lib dems get up to win and technically they have about eight at the moment and because boundary changes, if they do the best they've ever done, that only about 30 or something and i'll be helping to do better than that but though never admit to it. and they may be 50 or 60 according to some polls but if they do manage, partly a dv is kept they do manage, partly a dv is kept the party likely to a former government and the media but also as a couple of other things, the first thing is, if you're going to vote lib dem, you might get a local champion and an mp batting for you and he talked a

let's head to the west midlands, where keir starmer is about to speak.— midlands, where keir starmero being a member of parliament! cheering and thank you _ member of parliament! cheering and thank you for _ member of parliament! cheering and thank you for that _ member of parliament! cheering and thank you for that reception, | and thank you for that reception, that warm reception. it is day 42, this is the very last stop on the campaign. we had home from here and to come into here you give me that reception is absolutely phenomenal. thank you and don't unscrew —— underestimate just how much energy and confidence it gives all of us, including me. thank you so much for your reception. including me. thank you so much for your reception-— cheering i guess i was asking for that. thank you very, very much. 11 hours, look at the clock on the wall, just under 11 hours, the country goes to vote in a really important election about the future of our country, with two different futures on the ballot box. a real choice before the electorate, of choice to continue with the chaos in the division

and first let's go to the west midlands and emma thomas who's in walsall.ghly half of the former seat of roughly half of the former seat of walsall north, which going into the election had a conservative mp, and half of walsall south, which had and half of walsall south, which had a labour mp. infact, it had and half of walsall south, which had a labour mp. in fact, it had elected labour mps and the writing 70s, while walsall north was a fairly recent conservative game. it points to it being a key labour target. at the recent results in the local elections offer a challenge to that. the conservatives somewhat bucked the trend by keeping control of the borough council, and in the west midlands mayoral elections, while a labour candidate won in the region, here in walsall borough it was the conservative that got the most votes. that might give them some confidence. it's also worth mentioning that reform's mayoral candidate is now the parliamentary candidate is now the parliamentary candidate here and she secured the third largest proportion of the votes in wa

in 2022, i helped dan launch his appeal on his local west midlands bbc radio station.y of number 4, i privet drive, were proud to say. that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. _ how did that one make you feel? happy. he wanted to find a new voice for his communication device which sounded a bit more like his family and less robotic. eli lane, whose voice was chosen, has been thousands of miles away at drama school in new york, but he wanted to make this special journey. i don't think anyjourneyl would have been too far. i'm really excited to meet him. i think it will be great. i don't know how i'll react. hello, mate. how are you doing? eli, i can never thank you enough for giving me a voice. i promise to use it for good and always make my voice heard. so how was that for you? it was brilliant. it was so fun and i exciting to see dan. and, yeah, it was great. and i wasjust so, so thrilled. what was it like hearing your voice but dan speaking it? really, like, odd but brilliant! it might take some getting used to. dan's mum sarah has now joined the exciteme

nice crime, a rule has been rising in england and it's this area of the west midlands that's being the most effective with the biggest rate of life crime, a census in the country. nice time is something that liam smith experienced 1st hand when i was full say no stopped in the back roy to violence was part of his difficult past, but now he can pains against it, char, am only friends, have gone noisily into all right, and that's women as well, and women have been stopped. nitty law stands, there's not just one person, a witnesses to fly out. it's not regulated. yeah. and i'm scared for all the science. all insurance give off a positive law and get into the heads of these young kids that there's most the lowest on it. and i'm showing them that there is more to life and don't give up on your goals. to use clubs like this one are often key to that refuge for the trouble of teenagers. but closing only the person, i mean the costs to youth services. i think everyone agrees that if there's no way to go, the young people are going to be on the strace. next thing that the young people get stere

a very interesting fact to their, of exactly what the challenges facing here in the west midlands, the heart of the west midlands. wolverhampton, has seen this decline of manufacturing an industry to a service effect to, but people not feeling the benefit of that. me telling you, i want to ask you about what's been happening north of the border in wisconsin and the scottish national party, which has been willing so far. i think it 14 years that was brought in on a ticket of working for scottish independence. it's had big losses in this. is there any indication what that means for hopes, for scottish independence? not as well. we did see a to tell months of that desire for independence around the time when the scandals were building up around the leadership, felt the scottish national policy with nicholas search and set down. but also these issues of more to do perhaps with the dominance perhaps the s and p has happened. and the fact that people have not seen the benefits of that on the scandals that have come out. and that there's ongoing investigations with the financial arrangements

at the west midlands, gloucestershire in towards the west country could see 30 or 31.thunderstorms will develop and they become more widespread across england and wales and again some torrential downpours but not all of us will catch one. temperatures will be muggy in the south and not as cold as it was in part of scotland last night when the temperature fell to just over 1 degrees. tomorrow we start with the thunderstorms moving away into the north sea and a lot of dry weather as temperatures rise, we see further thunderstorms develop across parts of england and wales and again the potential for some torrential downpours. temperatures 15 to 28 degrees, dry across northern ireland and scotland. but then what happens as we head into the weekend, a cold front goes through and that will introduce fresher conditions. if you are not enjoying this hotter weather, there is a change in sight. friday, dry weather to stop the davidson chain across central and eastern areas but this is the cold front bringing in the cloud and also the rain and it will be breezy as well. temperatu

general election has sent a vehicle now with more from wolverhampton, overlooking the house of the west midlands. on the edge of the black country. there was little sign of will hampton's proud industrial post home to more than a quarter of a 1000000 people. it has reflected the moods of the nation at the ballot box and help usher in a labor victory. the city is not without its problems, it has some of the highest unemployment rates in the country, especially among young people, due to the most poets to the waning of industry and manufacturing in the region. that frustration is also translated into a lower turnouts as well as votes for the right wing populace reform policy, which diverting votes away from the conservatives. a mazda me has our own stool in the central market, yet she has little trust in any of the politicians has made promises to make life better for her and her family. they come to your door now, they don't come in voltage after they don't, then nothing doing well live up maybe up beats about it's decisive victory, but most of the turnouts, and will, by hampton was down. and tha

nice crime overall has been rising in england and it's this area of the west midlands that's being the most effective with the biggest rate of life crime. a census in the country. nice time is something that liam smith experienced 1st hand rental is full techno, stopped in the back. roy to violence was part of his difficult task, but now he complains against it. jar and more friends have got no friends and genre and not women as well. women have been stopped. nitty law stands. there's not just one person, a witnesses to fly out. it's not regulated. yeah. and i'm scared for all the science. all insurance give off the positive law and get into the heads of these young kids that this was the lowest and i'm showing them that the results of loss and don't give upon your goals to use clubs like this one are often key to that refuge with trouble teenagers, but closing only the person i made the costs to youth services. i think everyone agrees that if there's no way to go, the young people are going to be on the streets. next thing that the young people get stereotyped into being trouble might

i look at their west midlands mayor, _ a cooperative.ptember. i am back tomorrow night. after the chancellor's analysis. have a lovely day. live from london, this is bbc news. israel says it has struck hezbollah targets deep inside lebanon, after a rocket attack on the israeli—occupied golan heights killed at least 12 people. new video has emerged of the events leading up to a police officer kicking a man in the head, as he lay on the floor at manchester airport last week. it's day 2 of the paris olympics. organisers cancel triathalon swimming training due to pollution in the river seine. venezuela is heading to the polls in a few hours' time in what's being seen as a pivotal presidential election. the biggest wildfire to hit california this year is continuing to spread rapidly, forcing thousands of residents to flee their homes. hello. we start this hour in the middle east. israel says it has struck a series of hezbollah targets deep inside lebanon. according to the army, terrorist infrastructure was hit, including stockpiles of weapons

so i go reports. wolverhampton, overlooking the house of the west midlands on the edge of the black country. there was little sign of will hampton's proud industrial post home to more than a quarter of a 1000000 people. it has reflected the mood of the nation at the ballot box and helped usher in a labor victory. the city is not without its problems. it has some of the highest unemployment rates in the country, especially among young people, due to the most poets to the waning of industry and manufacturing in the region. that frustration is also translated into a lower turnouts as well as votes for the right wing populace reform policy. which diversion votes away from the conservatives. the fire mazda b has our own stool in the central market, yet she has little trust in any of the politicians has made promises to make life better for her and her family. they come to your door now they don't come in voltage. but after they don't, then nothing doing well live up maybe up beat about it's decisive victory, but most of the turnouts, and will buy something was down. and that reflects a national

nice crime overall has been rising in england and it's this area of the west midlands that's being the most effective with the biggest rate of life crime. a census in the country. nice time is something that liam smith experienced 1st hand rental is full techno stopped in the back roy to violence was part of his difficult paused, but now he can pains against it, char, am only friends, have gone northly into all right, and that's women as well. women have been stopped. nitty law stands. there's not just one person, a witnesses to fly out. it's not regularized. yeah. and i'm scared for all the science. all insurance give off a positive law and get into the heads of these young kids that this was the lowest on a and i'm showing them that there is multiple life and don't give up on your goals to use clubs like this one are often key to that refuge with trouble, teenagers, but the closing overlay, the person i made the costs to youth services. i think everyone agrees that if there's no way to go, the young people are going to be on the streets. next thing that the young people get stereotyp

and in wolverhampton, which is in the hearts of the west midlands. there are 3 seats, which being contested here. now, wolverhampton, itself is an interesting case because it is a hit, a city with a history of industrialization manufacturing. it is predominantly a working class city, but now that has changed some warts and about 3 quarters the people who are employees who are employed in the services sector as well. so it gives you an idea of exactly how that has changed in the city over the decades. but also what is interesting about the selection is that if you want to cost your balance, anyone who is eligible to cost the balance, they have to present themselves with their own identification. if they want to get the pilot counted. that is something which has been introduced for the 1st time for this general election. the 1st time there has been a general election allowed with that votes in id. so that is something which marks it out as, as a 1st compared to the of the general elections that have taken place or at sonya. and when can we expect the 1

about where you are and what's expected as well here in wolverhampton, it is in the hearts of the west midlands in england as well as on the doorstep of the black country as well as the area given that name. because of its crucial importance in the industrial revolution, where it was partly really going for that a revolution in that. how would brisson into an incredible air of holla, an industry as well that we're outside of polling station here in the city center. the, the city of move a handsome itself, it's a predominantly working costs to see it's diverse as well, with a sizable south asian community and power being community as well. also in the city center here says large student community as well. and now there are 3 seats which are being contested here. and we are of course, under restrictions us to not reports on anything political until the polls close today at 10 pm local time, which is 8 pm gmc. so starting a early stages of the right, of course, the housing shaping up that way you what i can tell you is that it is a sunny day hair as well. and you can make of what you will and that

tonight, he flew to redditch in the west midlands.to sir keir starmer�*s final pitch. imagine a britain moving forward together with a labour government. that is what we're fighting for. let's continue that fight. if you want change, you have to vote for it. vote labour tomorrow! cheering. the scottish national party leader, john swinney, has been toasting a marshmallow next to a big plastic frog in castlemilk in glasgow today, and he had a fluorescent jacket moment too. the election is well- and truly over and done with south of the border, - and the issue for scotland is — who's going to protect scotland's interests i in the next westminster parliament? _ and people know they can rely on the snp to do exactly that. j well, my bus to work didn't get this welcome this morning, but sir ed davey�*s did from liberal democrat activists in harpenden in hertfordshire this afternoon. tomorrow, we have the chance to win the change our country desperately needs. yellow bus in, pink car out. zany capers over and out for the lib dems. nigel fara

tonight, he flew to redditch in the west midlands.uberance here as you listen to sir keir starmer�*s final pitch. imagine a britain moving forward together with a labour government. that is what we're fighting for. let's continue that fight. if you want change, you have to vote for it. vote labour tomorrow! cheering. the scottish national party leader, john swinney, has been toasting a marshmallow next to a big plastic frog in castlemilk in glasgow today, and he had a fluorescent jacket moment too. ithe election is well and truly overl and done with south of the border, i and the issue for scotland is — i who's going to protect scotland's interests in the next - westminster parliament? and people know they can rely on the snp to do exactly that. j well, my bus to work didn't get this welcome this morning, but sir ed davey�*s did from liberal democrat activists in harpenden in hertfordshire this afternoon. tomorrow, we have the chance to win the change our country desperately needs. yellow bus in, pink car out. zany capers over and out

and in a city which is in the house of the west midlands, it is a city with a strong industrial manufacturing posts one that is very proud of that. but these days, people hit would be more likely to be employed in the sub, a suspect, 23 quarters of people who are employed to all working in that specific sector. now, as far as move a hampton goes, it is a predominantly working class city. but there are also new rules for those votes, and so you want to come and costs that by less to be mindful of the main $1.00 being that you have to have a full of valid identification. if you want to get your boat to be counted to, so this is the 1st time for general election that this rule has been enforced. in the meantime, those voters will be turning up here. i'm continuing to vote up until the polls close at 21. gmc sonya jago, i'll just sarah will. the hampton frowns is preparing for the 2nd round of it's called a mentor elections on sunday. the 1st round produce a victory for the 5 life party is mailing the band along with its allies, the national riley, one around 33 percent of the vote. but as smith

let's move ahead and we'll have a hampton, it's in the heart of the west midlands, a city of some, 264000 people in the 3 seats here, which are being contested. a 185000 people will, are able to votes to decide who they choose to rep, present them in parliament as well. and of course, this is the 1st general election in the u. k. where it will be required to bring in a form of identification if you want to vote to master here. so it's on the, the voting continues until late on into the evening. just give us an idea now from now in terms of the timeline to when we can expect the results as well. it's not a false false results process it because of course, they have to go through the counting process a by hand as well. but with the polls closing at 22, g a 22 local time, that's 21, g m t. we will get some kind of exit poll results at that time. and then of course, the from to counseling begins with the thought of books will be rushed accounting centers and around about $23.00 for the local time. that's 22. so tgm t that will be the declaration of the 5 seat. so that will most likely happen

but the west midlands, gloucestershire in towards the west country could see 30 or 31.ey become more widespread across england and wales again. some torrential downpours but not all of us will catch one. temperature wise it's going to be muggy in the south. not as cold as it was in parts of scotland last night when the temperature fell in tulloch bridge to just over one degree. tomorrow, we start with the thunderstorms moving away into the north sea. there'll be a lot of dry weather as temperatures rise, though. we'll see further thunderstorms develop across parts of england and wales again, the potentialfor some torrential downpours. temperatures 15 to 28 degrees drier across northern ireland in scotland. but then you can see what happens as we head into the weekend. a cold front goes through that will introduce some fresher conditions, so if you're not enjoying this hotter weather, that is a change in sight. so friday a lot of dry weather to start the day with some sunshine across central and eastern areas. but here's the cold front bringing in the cloud and also the

the third goal wall family of the west midlands and after tonight those shirts will be on the wall ay. england will play the netherlands in wednesday's semifinal in dortmund after they came from behind to beat turkey 2—1. two second—half goals from stefan de vri and liverpool's cody gakpo helped the dutch to victory after turkey earlier took a first half lead with samit akaidin. now to our other main story tonight. sir keir starmer has said his party's landslide victory in the election has provided a clear mandate for change in all four nations of the uk, but that changing the country would not be an overnight exercise. he was speaking at his first press conference as prime minister, after chairing his first cabinet meeting. here's our political editor chris mason. is this the day you dreamt of, deputy prime minister? - there was a first—day—at—school vibe in downing street this morning. is it quite something. to have the red folder? is it good to be back? an excitement and pride from those now at the top of government, heading in for a cabinet meeting. levity, yes, but a sense of th

it's most difficult in the west midlands and in wales.me, that hasn't changed. the least challenging areas are scotland and the east of england. the new government has promised to turbo—charge the housing sector but what can be done to improve affordability, especially for young people? i think what we have to do is we have to encourage the building of more homes, we need to make steps to do that. but additionally we also need to look at innovative ways where we can provide them finance. collectively, if we can get behind this, as the government appears to be doing with a mission, and we work across industry and across government, i think there is a way forward. is there then some light at the end of the renting tunnel? especially given the prediction that interest rates are about to come down. well, possibly long—term, but for those without the bank of mum and dad to help make the big move, things aren't getting any easier anytime soon. the paris olympics gets under way later this week — with several sports due to make their debuts at th

took him to all three corners of great britain, wales, scotland and then ending up here in the west midlands chose the parliamentary constituency of redditch. redditch was a symbol emblematic of those new labour years, it was held byjacqui smith, the former home secretary, during the former home secretary, during the new labour years and then she lost it in 2010. i was talking to one labour lettering of that era earlier and they said i really didn't think i would ever see us recapturing this seat but there's keir starmer this evening, this is a seat obviously with new boundaries under the implied result from 2019, i think it was around a 63% vote for the conservatives, but there he was making his final pitch. highly disciplined message, you've heard it before, talking about, if you want change have to vote for it, because obviously the labour party might be a little bit worried that all those warnings about a super majority might have an impact on their vote. but as you say, i did catch up with sir keir starmer. are you daunted, sir keir? sorry? are you daunted, sir keir? no. we've run an ex

three people have been arrested after a man was shot dead in walsall in the west midlands.the scene . another man died at the scene. another man was also wounded and is receiving treatment to his injuries, which are not believed to be life threatening. all three men arrested remain in custody as west midlands police detectives continue with their investigation . craig bellamy has investigation. craig bellamy has been named as the new wales football manager. the former liverpool forward replaces rob page, who was sacked in june after wales failed to qualify for the euros. the 44 year old said he will give his full commitment to develop the wales team, and can't wait to get started with the nations league games in september and the best of luck to craig bellamy there. those are the headlines for the moment. more news for you in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . slash alerts. >> right 109. good afternoon britain. and sir keir starmer has today promised t

mr parker, now the birmingham city council have written to the west midlands police, they've said thatings like patrols, speed cameras , things like the cameras, things like the consultation for speed limits also coming down as well. so there's a big, you know, push now from council leaders and also richard parker who said he's going to meet with the transport secretary, louise hayes, next week, who he says he will have this conversation with. so this protest that we've seen today in birmingham is the third that they've had in the last two weeks. it's becoming a serious problem now here in the city. >> indeed . thank you very much. >> indeed. thank you very much. that's jack carson reporting live from birmingham on birmingham safe roads, i'm dawn neesom this is gb news and there's loads more coming up. so don't go anywhere. but first i think it is well, it's the weekend. literally the weekend. great title . and the weather is great title. and the weather is quite important. so let's have a look at what it's doing. here's honour with the good news. honoun honour with the good news. hono

there has been mayoral combined authority to many parts of northern england, places like west midlandsg in areas that haven't got devolution. as well, that promise of a committee, council of the regions and nations is a genuine way to connect that to national government. way to connect that to national government-— government. practically, what difference _ government. practically, what difference does _ government. practically, what difference does it _ government. practically, what difference does it make? in i government. practically, what. difference does it make? in the north of england, _ difference does it make? in the north of england, productivity. north of england, productivity is getting better in greater manchester, closing the gap with london. the same thing is happening in other areas of the north. if you give leaders the power over local economies, transport, schools and education and the money to move between budgets, which is what happened on the michael gove, you can get significantly higher levels of growth and that helps with labour�*s growth mission which is part o

quite widely as we go through it towards lunchtime come across south—west england, wales, south west midlandsin wales will sit in place in the north wales, perhaps in the midlands and east anglia seen torrential rain for a time pushing its way into parts of yorkshire, too. not a cold start to tuesday morning, but a damp and wet one across parts of yorkshire again. north—east england, outbreaks of rain across the midlands which slides back to east anglia. as it starts to clear out into the north sea later we will see some showers developing, some of those heavy and thundery, particularly through the spinal england, the pennines and peak district. one or two muggers showers elsewhere. early showers will fade, dry and bright weather to end the day. temperatures mild relative to today. fine weather comes for many of you on wednesday. high pressure building its way in. early mist and fog patches around, a lot of dry and sunny weather through the morning. into the afternoon, cloud an average of rain spreading to more than ireland. it will cloud over a bit in western areas. many have a pleasant day

she'll be our west midlands reporter. he's standing by in birmingham for us.l be a whole host of counts there. jack >> yeah. nine in total here at the icc where votes are being counted. still being verified at the moment. we're not expecting any kind of declaration until about 4 am. this morning. but i just want to bring you some news that we've had from the workers party of great britain. of course, the george galloway , course, the george galloway, party who have stood in seats around the country, of course, standing a lot of their, their candidates on that kind of pro—palestine platform. well, we've heard from the workers party here at the count that they reckon they will be within 1000 votes of labour and liam byrne in birmingham, hodge hill and solihull north. now that is and solihull north. now that is a new seat created at this election. it was birmingham hodge hill held by labour, but liam byrne , of course, former liam byrne, of course, former chief secretary to the treasury, a big labour name, but he might not necessarily be heading back to the house

the areas with the highest birth rates, major cities london, the west midlands and pall mall.nificant cultural change, doesn't it? >> well, of course , immigration, >> well, of course, immigration, which we haven't yet talked about , which which we haven't yet talked about, which is which we haven't yet talked about , which is actually the about, which is actually the factor that determines the growth . growth. >> now, if births roughly equal deaths, then it's all about migration and migration inevitably is overwhelmingly into the cities in britain. it always has been. there are exceptions . like in america, exceptions. like in america, norwegians went out to farm in the midwest. but essentially, immigration is an urban phenomenon. so if we are not growing our population as a whole in terms of births and deaths, but we are having growth in terms of immigration and that immigration is predominantly going to our cities . that means going to our cities. that means it's the cities which are relatively growing, and the countryside, which is relatively declining . and of course, dec