04/01/2017 Midlands Today

Good evening. throughout the night with the

Legal action's been taken to try and stop the identities of witnesses

in the Trojan Horse inquiry from being revealed.

Lawyers acting for five teachers accused of being part of a plot

to impose an Islamic agenda at non-faith schools in Birmingham want

the right to question the people who gave evidence against them.

But the City Council says they were given assurances

Here's our special correspondent Peter Wilson.

The so-called Trojan horse saga has never been out of the headlines

since it first emerged three years ago.

There have been death threats against a Birmingham headteacher,

resignations and allegations of aggressive Islamist influence

Now today, recriminations over the news that the personal details

of witnesses who gave evidence anonymously to the Trojan enquiry

The witnesses came forward under strict conditions of anonymity

and they were given guarantees back in 2014 about how their

Those people have now been betrayed and this has implications,

not just for the people in this case, but up and down the country

in whistle-blowing cases past, present and future.

Five teachers are facing a professional tribunal

and their lawyers were granted the right to have full disclosure.

The whistle-blowers have been sent letters informing them

that "the transcripts of your evidence as provided

in the Peter Clarke investigation will be disclosed

We've spoken to both one of the anonymous witnesses and one

of the teachers involved in this case.

The witness says they fear that if their identity

is widely published, both they and their family will be

The teacher told me that the whole Trojan horse saga was based

on an anonymous letter which was likely

And he claims, that the anonymous witnesses were able to say

whatever they wanted without anything being corroborated.

The association representing nine of the 50 anonymous witnesses

acted quickly yesterday, taking legal action to prevent

The Department for Education tonight said, that the tribunal hearings

into the five teachers' cases must be fair and correct.

Fears are growing for a Worcestershire man who's been

Stephen Woolley's car was found at a beauty spot but there's been no

Carol Woolley tries to keep busy, but it's hard.

Her husband Stephen disappeared 28 days ago and she's

It's just the uncertainty, just physically feeling

Not knowing what the day's going to bring.

Just hoping today's the day we get some news.

Stephen left the family home in Kidderminster

Half an hour later he was at Holt Fleet on the River Severn north

He's a keen walker and his family's organised search parties in the area

There is concern though about his state of mind.

Last year was a hard one for the family.

Stephen, who's suffered from depression in the past,

struggling to cope with the death of his sister.

No one knows Stephen better than you do,

in your heart of hearts, what do you think

My heart of hearts is I don't think he's coming back.

I hope he's out there somewhere alive, but as days go on,

Matt's on social media daily spreading the word

and the comedienne, Miranda Hart, one of several celebrities who've

From his wife though, the simplest and most

Steve, if you're out there, we love you.

There's nothing we can't cope with, just come back to us.

The family are here for you and we want you home.

Police have been out on the river in boats but say without a positive

sighting there's little more they can do.

Giles Latcham BBC Midlands Today, Kidderminster.

A jury has heard that a 20 year-old Warwickshire woman was the victim

of a sadistic killing by a former boyfriend and his partner.

Bethany Hill's body was found at a flat in Stratford-Upon-Avon

Jack Williams and Kayleigh Woods both deny her murder.

West Bromwich High Street was closed for several hours today after a fire

Flats above the Royale Garden were evacuated while firefighters

brought in an hydraulic platform to tackle the blaze.

It's not yet known how the fire started.

A trauma surgeon at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham

is one of the founders of CitizenAID, a new scheme designed

to offer advice and training for members of the public

in case they're caught up in a terror attack.

Professor Sir Keith Porter says learning first aid skills,

like how to deal with severe bleeding could save lives before

A warning, Laura-May McMullen's report begins with a reconstruction

and images which some of you may find distressing.

This isn't real, but security officials say the terror

The police will deal with the terrorists first so it

could be some time before paramedics are allowed in and so

The first responders to that incident, from a police perspective,

will inevitably be trying to deal with the people causing the threat.

They won't have time to help people who may have been injured.

And we know that that gap is vital for saving people's lives.

So we're really, really interested in the work of CitizenAID.

CitizenAID is an app and a pocketbook which gives step-by-step,

It's been designed by a Birmingham surgeon who has treated

hundreds of injured soldiers at the Royal Centre

for Defence Medicine at the QE in Birmingham.

The chance of it happening is fairly remote to you as an individual.

But that said, the Metropolitan Police Chief Commissioner said

recently, that it's not if, but when.

So with that knowledge we hope this app will deliver reassurance

In the sense they can now be armed with a system they can put

in practice if they find themselves with injured casualties and no

Attempting first aid may not be for everyone,

but military medics say it's better to have a plan in case

this worst-case scenario turns into a reality.

Laura-May McMullen, BBC Midlands today.

It's 100 years since Kinver Edge in Staffordshire

The charity's now planning to mark the centenary with a new path

to make the famous rock houses and the surrounding area,

With never-ending views, Kinver Edge in South Staffordshire

has been a place to escape and enjoy for generations of families.

The National Trust has been looking after Kinver Edge for 100

years now and this year, a whole series of events are planned

From his home studio on the outskirts of Kinver,

famous songwriter, Chris Eaton, has written 'On Kinver Edge',

Better known for writing the Christmas number one

Saviour's Day and a host of hits for the likes of Cliff Richard,

Chris divides his time between America and Kinver,

I've got fantastic memories as a child, coming up

It's always meant a lot to me just to walk and have a sense of peace

and kind of find myself again, if you like.

I think so many people in the area do that.

Carved into the sandstone, the rock houses on Kinver Edge

ARCHIVE: It seems incredible but the cave has been

Today the rock houses are a museum attraction,

but in days gone by, the people living here would make

the most of tram loads of tourists that escaped the city smog

They were very entrepreneurial and they used to sell them tea,

cakes and sconce and even charge them a shilling

Sue Wright's ancestors donated 200 acres of land to The National Trust

The gift was from her wealthy grandfather, Oliver Lee

So they bought it and almost immediately handed it over

The National Trust, I don't think had got any properties

in this part of the world, so it was a very,

When it's released later in the year, the song On Kinver Edge

will raise money to help The National Trust front

will raise money to help The National Trust fund

So just what sort of temperatures do we need to prepare for tomorrow?

I'll leave you with the weather from Shefali.

After a fairly cloudy start to the day, the sky started to clear

quite nicely during the afternoon and this is what we were left

Clear skies right across the region and its these clear skies,

together with polar air that's been feeding in from the north

through the day that's going to lead to a drastic temperature drop.

However, this high pressure will pull away to the east

when we get to Friday and that will introduce these fronts

from off the Atlantic, bringing in rain and milder

conditions as we head into the weekend.

But back to tonight and with these clear skies right across us,

you can see those blue colours invading the entire region

and that is a sharp, hard frost which is going to develop

right across the region as we head into the morning tomorrow.

Temperatures will plummet, minus five Celsius in

Rurally, those values could fall as low as minus eight Celsius.

We could get the freezing fog patches into the morning tomorrow.

But it's a frosty and sunny start to the day tomorrow and it's

Just a bit of cloud starting to emerge from the South

during the course of the afternoon turning the sunshine

But fog could persist in most places as temperatures only struggle

But as I say, that cloud producing rain for Friday

The National forecast is next but I'll leave you with the outlook

Temperatures creeping up a notch or two and turning milder into the

weekend. A guarantee on your journey to work

tomorrow, if you are nipping out to the shop for a paper, somebody will

talk about how cold it is. Looking at today, the weather front pushing

Southwest, mild air stay in south-west, but behind it is colder

air from the Arctic. Behind it, windy conditions. Bleak across

northern Scotland, a cold day with temperatures struggling to get above

two. If you think that's cold, look at what's happening outside as we

speak. Temperatures falling below freezing quite widely across the

country and towards dawn they could be as low as -8 in rural parts of

Oxfordshire. I guarantee you will be scraping the ice of the car

windscreens first thing in the morning. Some cloud running down the

North Sea coast and