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Hello, and welcome to Midlands Today. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Concerns over the finances of a company paid to protect | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
It sounds like somebody hasn't been watching this, and the company | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
has got into trouble, and a lot of schools have ended up | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
paying out of their budgets for a service they won't now get. | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
The Big Community provides services to a third | :00:24. | :00:25. | |
A father meets the daughter he never knew he had. | :00:26. | :00:34. | |
And I'm so happy he wants me in his life. | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
A lorry carrying 28 tonnes of grain crashes into a house next to a level | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
We are live courtside as the Worcester wolves look to maintain | :00:47. | :00:59. | |
their great form at the start of 2017. | :01:00. | :01:00. | |
And we begin the weekend with some wintry showers, | :01:01. | :01:02. | |
but signs of something a little brighter for next week. | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
Some of Birmingham's most vulnerable children could be left | :01:06. | :01:17. | |
Questions are being asked as to whether a company providing | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
support to children may have run into financial difficulty. | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
Around a third of the city's 300 primary schools have paid thousands | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
Much of the money has been paid upfront for therapists | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
The Big Community helps monitor truancy, they also support | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
children with emotional and behavioural problems. | :01:41. | :01:41. | |
Sarah Bishop has this exclusive report. | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
We filmed her for a documentary about safeguarding | :01:46. | :01:56. | |
We look at children's emotional resilience, how they cope | :01:57. | :02:04. | |
with day-to-day life, experience they have had that has | :02:05. | :02:06. | |
Primarily we look at how the service can assist and work with schools | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
to break down the barriers to learning and ensure | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
For the past seven years, the Big Community has sent social | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
workers into dozens of Birmingham schools to do in part what the local | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
authority used to do, to monitor children's attendance | :02:23. | :02:24. | |
It also sends in therapists to support children, dealing | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
with everything from divorce to domestic violence. | :02:31. | :02:32. | |
This city centre primary school is one of around 100 in Birmingham | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
A source has told me how practitioners from the company came | :02:36. | :02:45. | |
in, in almost a state of shock last week. | :02:46. | :02:47. | |
They said they had e-mails telling them the company had run | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
into financial difficulty, and their jobs were no more. | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
A source from the school tells us they tried to contact the company | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
but as yet there has been no formal communication that | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
We tried to contact Big Community but the phone number is dead, | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
there is no sign up at its registered address | :03:07. | :03:13. | |
and there is no one in Miss Selvey's home in North Worcestershire. | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
Companies House records show the Big Community | :03:17. | :03:18. | |
In August last year, it received notice of a compulsory strike-off. | :03:19. | :03:27. | |
The Big Community would have been handling big money in addition | :03:28. | :03:35. | |
to the thousands academies being paid in directly, | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
Birmingham City Council confirmed in 2015 it paid in over ?140,000 | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
schools which did not have checking accounts. | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
It has now written to schools advising them | :03:49. | :03:50. | |
Who is going to be monitoring the children? | :03:51. | :04:07. | |
Anything that helps towards safeguarding needs to be there. | :04:08. | :04:21. | |
There are fears what may have happened is down | :04:22. | :04:23. | |
to the fragmentation of public education. | :04:24. | :04:24. | |
I have no objection to that providing it is properly | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
monitored and supervised and there are proper | :04:28. | :04:28. | |
It sounds like somebody hasn't been watching this and the company | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
has got into trouble, and a lot of schools | :04:33. | :04:34. | |
have ended up paying out for a service they won't now get. | :04:35. | :04:41. | |
Tonight, Birmingham City Council says it will be working with schools | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
to give support and advice, and help them recoup any money owed. | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
Sarah Bishop, BBC Midlands Today, Birmingham. | :04:48. | :04:57. | |
"We're so happy we've found each other." | :04:58. | :04:58. | |
It's a moment 30 years in the making. | :04:59. | :05:00. | |
A Staffordshire father has met the daughter he never knew he had. | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
Fifi Giannitto managed to track down her dad John Duncan | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
and, after a DNA test, their incredible story | :05:07. | :05:08. | |
And it's not just genes they have in common. | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
Incredibly they've spent years going to the same pub. | :05:13. | :05:14. | |
Many an extraordinary story has been told in pubs. | :05:15. | :05:22. | |
A 52-year-old psychological coach from Stone, happy married, | :05:23. | :05:33. | |
This is Fifi who, approaching her 30th birthday last year, | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
decided now is the time to find her father, a man | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
Two strangers who were frequenting the same pub. | :05:42. | :05:48. | |
I went on holiday to a very beautiful place, sat on the edge | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
of a loch with some writing paper and decided to go for it and do it. | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
Fifi Giannitto wrote this letter to the man | :05:58. | :05:59. | |
she believed to be her father, a man who hadn't seen her | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
grow up because he was unaware she even existed. | :06:03. | :06:04. | |
And I hope you want to be in touch with me. | :06:05. | :06:14. | |
Fifi had done her own detective work, finding her father's address. | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
John Duncan received the letter and struggled to believe | :06:18. | :06:19. | |
I turned up to kind of explain that I wasn't her dad. | :06:20. | :06:27. | |
But John did agree to have a DNA test. | :06:28. | :06:34. | |
The number came up as 99.99% positive, so there is | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
And I just sat there, I don't know how long I sat | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
I can't tell you, I just sat looking at that screen. | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
You have waves of emotion of anger, happiness. | :06:50. | :06:51. | |
John had a relationship with Fifi's mother in the 1980s, | :06:52. | :06:53. | |
Why, after 30 years, were you not aware that John was your dad? | :06:54. | :07:06. | |
She had her reasons, we don't really want to focus on that part. | :07:07. | :07:14. | |
We are just happy that we've found each other now and we've | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
I am so happy he wants me in his life. | :07:18. | :07:24. | |
She is kind, she's intelligent, she's beautiful. | :07:25. | :07:26. | |
She is everything you could want in a daughter. | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
As if this story couldn't be any more extraordinary, | :07:32. | :07:33. | |
Fifi and John's paths have probably crossed before. | :07:34. | :07:35. | |
So, we could have been standing at the bar next to each other, | :07:36. | :07:45. | |
Proving that some surprises are worth the wait. | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
Ben Godfrey, BBC Midlands Today, Stone. | :07:49. | :07:57. | |
A lorry full with grain ploughed into a house near a railway | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
line in Herefordshire early this morning. | :08:03. | :08:03. | |
Miraculously, no-one was injured, but the accident near Leominster | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
caused chaos for train services, and the road was closed | :08:07. | :08:08. | |
The lorry crashed into the house next to a level crossing | :08:09. | :08:18. | |
in Leominster in freezing conditions just before 6am. | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
It was stuck on its side, embedded into the brickwork | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
The man who lives there, who does not want to be named, | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
spoke to BBC Hereford and Worcester earlier. | :08:31. | :08:31. | |
I guessed something had gone into the house. | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
I knew it wouldn't be a train because it wouldn't be | :08:38. | :08:39. | |
I jumped out of bed, put on some trainers and came | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
As you can see, the lorry won't go anywhere. | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
The lorry was carrying 28 tonnes of grain. | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
The recovery operation took all morning as a structural engineer | :08:52. | :08:53. | |
advised crews on the ground, and power lines were taken down. | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
We first wanted to make sure everyone was all right and not | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
injured which I am happy to confirm is the case. | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
Next, it was about how do we recover the situation as safely as possible. | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
Unfortunately it has had a big effect on the railway network | :09:11. | :09:12. | |
and roads, inconveniencing people quite a bit. | :09:13. | :09:14. | |
Slowly, steadily, the lorry was winched away revealing damaged | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
A friend of the owner gave his reaction. | :09:20. | :09:26. | |
I was delighted to see it was standing. | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
It doesn't seem to be too badly damaged. | :09:31. | :09:32. | |
You must be worried about your friend? | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
Oh, yes, very worried, quite a shock. | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
As you can see, after several hours, the lorry has now been moved, | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
the clear-up operation is going on, and the bricks that were damaged | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
Trains between Shrewsbury and Hereford were | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
By early afternoon, things were getting back to normal. | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
Joanne Writtle, BBC Midlands Today, Leominster. | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
Police investigating the death of a teenager shot dead | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
in Birmingham last year have charged a 24-year-old woman | :10:07. | :10:08. | |
Shaeleana Samuels from Dudley will appear in court next month. | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
Kenichi Phillips died after being shot | :10:12. | :10:13. | |
Disham Downie is currently serving life in prison for his murder. | :10:14. | :10:21. | |
A motorist from Stoke-on-Trent has alleged the police stopped | :10:22. | :10:23. | |
and searched his car 17 times last year for no legitimate reason. | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
Adeel Rehman was last stopped just after Christmas by armed officers | :10:27. | :10:28. | |
The police watchdog, the IPCC, is now beginning an investigation, | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
after being told that nothing was found and no action taken | :10:33. | :10:34. | |
A 75-year-old man has died following a serious | :10:35. | :10:45. | |
house fire in Edgbaston, Birmingham, just after | :10:46. | :10:47. | |
Police say nothing could be done to save the man. | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
His death is not being treated as suspicious. | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
A society has been set up in memory of Bert Bissell, | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
Mr Bissell led regular trips to Ben Nevis, after he first climbed | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
He constructed a Peace Cairn at the summit, and raised thousands | :11:05. | :11:11. | |
The society is calling for a blue plaque to be put up in Buffery Park | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
Since December, poultry farmers have been forced by the Government | :11:16. | :11:23. | |
to keep all their animals inside because of an | :11:24. | :11:25. | |
After such a long period, it meant many were becoming | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
concerned about losing their free-range status. | :11:30. | :11:30. | |
But now the Government has said it's prepared to make some exceptions. | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
Our rural affairs correspondent David Gregory-Kumar | :11:34. | :11:35. | |
So, David, is there any risk to people from this | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
There's no risk to us from either the virus or from meat or eggs. | :11:42. | :11:50. | |
But, as you can see, this form of bird flu is very bad news | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
80% of the turkeys on this Lincolnshire farm were killed | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
Stopping this spreading is why the Government says birds | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
And that's a problem for farmers with free-range flocks. | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
Normally, because they are free-range eggs, | :12:10. | :12:11. | |
you would be seeing these birds out in the fields. | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
Since the beginning of December, because of the risk of bird flu, | :12:15. | :12:17. | |
we have been told by the Government to keep them inside. | :12:18. | :12:26. | |
Now the Government is updating its rules | :12:27. | :12:27. | |
This is the area covering Staffordshire and Mr | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
So now he will be able to release his birds. | :12:33. | :12:40. | |
But inside these blue zones, there's a higher risk of bird flu | :12:41. | :12:42. | |
Zoom out, and you can see how many farmers might be affected. | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
Keeping their birds inside, losing their free range status | :12:48. | :12:49. | |
They will not any more be able to label their eggs as free-range. | :12:50. | :12:57. | |
The Government won't be able to give them any help. | :12:58. | :12:59. | |
But I am hopeful people will recognise that these | :13:00. | :13:01. | |
are free-range flocks, they are being housed for good | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
reason for disease control, and understand that these | :13:05. | :13:05. | |
are still eggs produced from flocks intended to be free range. | :13:06. | :13:16. | |
This is Mr Warrington disinfecting our | :13:17. | :13:17. | |
Typical of the precautions farmers are taking to keep bird flu | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
But even here in a low-risk zone there's still some risk. | :13:22. | :13:29. | |
One day we may have to accept that even free-range chickens | :13:30. | :13:32. | |
could sometimes have to be kept in barns to protect them | :13:33. | :13:35. | |
Thanks for joining us on Midlands Today. | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
Concerns over the finances of a company paid to protect | :13:41. | :13:51. | |
Your detailed weekend weather forecast to come shortly. | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
The night the super troupers came to Birmingham Odeon. | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
40 years on from Abba's first UK gig. | :14:00. | :14:06. | |
And forget the Six Nations, playing rugby the Hartpury way. | :14:07. | :14:08. | |
The Gloucestershre club with 21 wins out of 21. | :14:09. | :14:21. | |
They've shown no compassion or grace towards our community. | :14:22. | :14:23. | |
The words of a resident from one of Herefordshire's | :14:24. | :14:25. | |
most remote towns where the last bank shut | :14:26. | :14:27. | |
Kington has had a bank for more than two centuries | :14:28. | :14:34. | |
and customers say they'll now be forced to travel at least 14 miles | :14:35. | :14:37. | |
Robert Jones' farming family has been coming | :14:38. | :14:43. | |
to Kington to do their banking for two centuries. | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
To make that point, he chose to ride his horse | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
to deposit his last cheque as the last bank closed. | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
My great grandfathers came here to bank on horseback. | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
And I thought to mark this occasion, I would come down as my | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
I wasn't brought up in the computer age, and I don't do computers, | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
As farmer to farmer, we have always dealt with a cheque book. | :15:10. | :15:24. | |
Barclays closed in Kington in September. | :15:25. | :15:25. | |
With HSBC shutting too, the post office is now the only | :15:26. | :15:28. | |
They'll take longer to reach accounts. | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
At the end of the street in Wales, they are coming over | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
This traditional market town is steeped in rural tradition. | :15:36. | :15:38. | |
But it's not just the farming community that'll lose out. | :15:39. | :15:41. | |
John Richardson bought the local hotel 30 years ago with a loan | :15:42. | :15:44. | |
How can dreams becomes realities now with no banks in the town? | :15:45. | :15:55. | |
and ask for a half-a- million-pound loan | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
HSBC is advising customers it has an alternative branch 17 | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
The bank says that 93% of client contact at this branch is now done | :16:06. | :16:12. | |
But this customer is so angry, he came to close his account today. | :16:13. | :16:24. | |
The people living in glass houses in London and raking in a lot of money. | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
But the one thing they forget, money is associated with people | :16:31. | :16:38. | |
and I'm afraid they are not thinking of the people's side of it. | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
HSBC, soon to have its HQ in Birmingham, is closing | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
Bob Hockenhull BBC Midlands Today, Herefordshire | :16:46. | :16:47. | |
A busy weekend of sport to look forward to. | :16:48. | :16:49. | |
And in Worcester, the action gets underway shortly, | :16:50. | :16:51. | |
with top-flight basketball being played in front | :16:52. | :16:53. | |
And Dan Pallett's there right now, likely to attract | :16:54. | :16:56. | |
They have had a great start to 2017, welcome, top-flight basketball. We | :16:57. | :17:15. | |
will speak to the coach Paul James. First, Rugby Union. | :17:16. | :17:18. | |
This weekend has the second round of matches in the Six Nations, | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
But any team would be envious of the record | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
They've played 21 won 21 and are 28 points clear at the top | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
Promotion to the Championship is a certainty. | :17:30. | :17:32. | |
So this morning, I went along to see them train. | :17:33. | :17:35. | |
It's 8am, freezing cold and training has started. | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
They've won every game this season and are heading for the second | :17:41. | :17:50. | |
We finished second last year which was a great achievement. | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
We knew we'd be near the top flight again, we had hoped that. | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
I didn't expect to be so many points clear at this stage of the season. | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
Hartpury is very different from a traditional rugby club. | :18:04. | :18:09. | |
The heart of the team is made up from their university students. | :18:10. | :18:12. | |
Take winger Jonas Milkalcius from Lithuania. | :18:13. | :18:15. | |
The early start allows him and many players to then attend lectures. | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
He's studying for a degree in strength and conditioning. | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
Last summer, he was signed by Premiership Harlequins and loaned | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
back so he can complete his degree and play a final season at Hartpury | :18:30. | :18:32. | |
I can confirm it is brilliant for your future career, | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
As these shirts show, they have an excellent record | :18:37. | :18:51. | |
COMMENTATOR: Glorious from England, from Brown to Jonny May, | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
They include the England and Gloucester winger Jonny May | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
Hartpury have dominated National One this season. | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
But can they make the step up to The Championship where the top | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
Next year I think it will be a huge challenge, | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
a different challenge, certainly with a semi-professional | :19:15. | :19:16. | |
I think, we will see how we cope, with the development | :19:17. | :19:24. | |
To consolidate in that league, and test ourselves | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
For now, though, Hartpury are enjoying the ride | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
It's a matter of when, not if, they gain promotion. | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
Dan Pallett, BBC Midlands Today, Hartpury. | :19:38. | :19:39. | |
Victory for Hartpury would be another big step towards promotion. | :19:40. | :19:46. | |
Now, someone who knows all about growing a club | :19:47. | :19:48. | |
through the divisions is Paul James, the coach of the Worcester Wolves. | :19:49. | :19:51. | |
It does sound good, I wish I had it sooner in the season. We had a tough | :19:52. | :20:03. | |
start but we are getting things together. We had a great January, | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
the guys have worked hard in practice, we are looking to continue | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
the wings for the next of the season. | :20:12. | :20:12. | |
Tonight, you're hosting the bottom side, Manchester. | :20:13. | :20:13. | |
We can't be complacent. Last time, we were up by seven with a minute to | :20:14. | :20:25. | |
go and we threw it away. We don't want a repeat. | :20:26. | :20:26. | |
What can you achieve this season now? | :20:27. | :20:34. | |
There is still plenty to play for, the play-offs is a great finale, we | :20:35. | :20:40. | |
still need to win enough to ensure we are in the play-offs. We have a | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
chance to get through in the trophy for the final. | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
We have to give it the best we can. Plenty to play for, let's hope there | :20:50. | :20:51. | |
is a big crowd tonight. If you can't make it here tonight | :20:52. | :20:52. | |
the game is on the BBC's red button. The weekend football gets | :20:53. | :20:59. | |
underway tonight too. And a real test for Gianfranco | :21:00. | :21:01. | |
Zola's Birmimngham City. Last weekend, their first win, | :21:02. | :21:10. | |
beating Fulham in the championship. Yes, they're away | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
to promotion-chasing Sheffield Wednesday | :21:15. | :21:15. | |
in the Championship. Zola finally won his first game last | :21:16. | :21:16. | |
weekend at the 11th attempt. This will be much more difficult | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
and anything less than a win and you'd have to say that any faint | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
hopes of reaching the play-offs What were you doing | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
40 years ago today? There's a chance you might have been | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
part of a bit of musical history, as Abba took to the stage | :21:32. | :21:34. | |
of the Birmingham Odeon to play their first | :21:35. | :21:37. | |
live concert in the UK. Demand for tickets was huge, | :21:38. | :21:39. | |
with more than 50,000 fans clamouring for just over | :21:40. | :21:41. | |
two thousand seats. We were sat in the cinema watching | :21:42. | :21:43. | |
Abba live, which was amazing. # I've been cheated | :21:44. | :22:07. | |
by you since I don't know when. And Abba, one of the greatest pop | :22:08. | :22:09. | |
groups in music history, played their first ever live show | :22:10. | :22:16. | |
in the UK at the Birmingham Odeon. If you come this way, | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
this used to be the stage. I will take you to the spot | :22:22. | :22:24. | |
where Agnetha and Frida warbled. Tony Warner was the manager | :22:25. | :22:33. | |
of the Odeon that night. It was just the atmosphere, | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
it was unique. I didn't know it wasn't | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
going to be repeated. # Money, money, money, must be | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
funny, in a rich man's world. It's not thought there's any | :22:47. | :23:10. | |
footage of the actual concert in Birmingham, | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
but Abba The Movie, filmed less than a month later in Australia, | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
shows the first glimpse the 2,397 fans inside the Odeon would have | :23:19. | :23:21. | |
got of Benny, Bjorn, More than 52,000 people applied | :23:22. | :23:24. | |
for tickets for the Birmingham show. Kaarin Goodburn was | :23:25. | :23:33. | |
one of the lucky few Just 13 years old, she was taken | :23:34. | :23:35. | |
to the concert by her dad. And this massive sound filled | :23:36. | :23:42. | |
the whole auditorium. We were at the cinema | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
in Birmingham with Abba, live, which is still a mind-blowing | :23:49. | :24:01. | |
thing for me. Abba only toured the UK twice, | :24:02. | :24:03. | |
so most people never The closest we have now is to see | :24:04. | :24:12. | |
one of the many Abba tribute bands, like UK Bjorn who are based in north | :24:13. | :24:21. | |
Staffordshire. The shows that they put | :24:22. | :24:24. | |
on are out of this world, it would be great to do that, | :24:25. | :24:27. | |
to that scale. But we try and replicate | :24:28. | :24:29. | |
it as best we can. To see them live in their heyday, it | :24:30. | :24:32. | |
must have been amazing. For those who were at the Odeon 40 | :24:33. | :24:51. | |
years ago, it was an evening The only time Abba ever performed | :24:52. | :24:54. | |
live in the second city. Ben Sidwell, BBC Midlands | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
Today, Birmingham. If you were that little girl with | :24:59. | :25:09. | |
the bunches, we would love to hear from you, many happy memories I am | :25:10. | :25:11. | |
sure. The potential for more snow flurries | :25:12. | :25:22. | |
even to lower levels. Actually, in the west of the country today, we | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
fared better than anywhere else, we saw the sun bursting through. That | :25:28. | :25:34. | |
didn't mean this evening we had a stunning end with this sunset. The | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
sky looked like it was on fire in our church. | :25:39. | :25:41. | |
But we are starting to see the first signs of spring. | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
This is a dusting of snow drops. This is a dusting of snow. More of | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
this to come through this weekend, particularly over higher ground like | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
the Staffordshire Moorlands and Peak District. | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
It will be called this weekend, the risk of wintry showers. | :26:01. | :26:03. | |
We are still feeling the wintry breeze. | :26:04. | :26:06. | |
It is coming from the north-east and will start to bring in a few showers | :26:07. | :26:12. | |
tonight. It will be very cold. A few clear spells. Temperatures will fall | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
away. As low as minus three. We will see a frost, a very cold night. The | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
showers will turn to something wintry, temperatures down to minus | :26:24. | :26:30. | |
three. A cold start tomorrow, the showers being blown in on that | :26:31. | :26:36. | |
breeze, falling as sleet or snow. Then it turned to rain, a miserable | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
afternoon, cold, grey and wet with temperatures just for Celsius. That | :26:42. | :26:49. | |
continues at the end of the day. The wind direction changes to an | :26:50. | :26:52. | |
easterly, getting colder, with showers turning to wintry showers | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
predicted over the Staffordshire Moorlands, temperatures holding up a | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
little better. Sunday, more rain to come, still | :27:02. | :27:07. | |
cold, the wind direction changing to a south easterly. Monday, a touch | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
brighter and the sunshine is back, still cold. | :27:12. | :27:12. | |
The battle to succeed Tristram Hunt as MP | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
With just under two weeks to go until polling, | :27:18. | :27:21. | |
the five main candidates are getting ready for the campaign's | :27:22. | :27:23. | |
only live televised debate this weekend. | :27:24. | :27:25. | |
specially-extended edition of Sunday Politics Midlands | :27:26. | :27:28. | |
with Patrick Burns, from 11 o'clock here on BBC One. | :27:29. | :27:35. | |
Join us again after the Ten O'Clock News. | :27:36. | :27:39. | |
when farmers leave their daily routines behind... | :27:40. | :28:47. | |
Right, here we come, Dorset! ..for a show day. | :28:48. | :28:51. |