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The headlines this evening... news teams where you are. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
42 years on, special posthumous recognition for victims | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Get's momentous to know that our city is behind us, a cross-party | :00:00. | :00:18. | |
It's a single award for all 21 victims as | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
With a record number of patients waiting on trolleys last week, | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
Stoke and Staffordshire hospitals are the worst in the country. | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
Coming soon: black top milk so dairy farmers can get a better | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
The farmer receives an absolute fair price, the | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
contracts are fair, it's a very transparent situation. | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
35 years ago, temperatures were colder here at RAF Shawbury | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
I'll be finding out why it was a record-breaking year. | :00:48. | :00:54. | |
Well, I'm not seeing anything that extreme for later this week | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
but now that we're one step closer to the arrival of snow - | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
More than 40 years after 21 people were killed | :01:01. | :01:21. | |
in the Birmingham pub bombings, the victims have been honoured | :01:22. | :01:23. | |
today by being given the Freedom of the City. | :01:24. | :01:25. | |
The title is usually given to organisations or people | :01:26. | :01:27. | |
who have served the city in an exceptional way. | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
The victims' families were at the Council House today | :01:34. | :01:35. | |
Here's our Special Correspondent, Peter Wilson. | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
The families whose loved ones died 42 years ago gathered | :01:39. | :01:40. | |
Over the years, the pub bomb campaigners often felt | :01:41. | :01:47. | |
Inside the grand Council chamber of Birmingham's Council House | :01:48. | :01:53. | |
The City Council confers on the 21 victims... | :01:54. | :02:01. | |
The granting of honorary freedom of the city is normally conferred | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
Since the Second World War, it's an honour which has usually | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
We thought it was an appropriate moment to start to do something | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
which says we will never in this city actually forget those 21 | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
and that we stand with the families, the surviving families, | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
Nearly 200 people were injured, 21 lost their lives, | :02:24. | :02:30. | |
when two bombs exploded in crowded pubs in Birmingham in 1974. | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
Six Irish men were jailed, their wrongful convictions | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
Because of the controversy surrounding this case, | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
it has felt in the past as though the city wanted to forget | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
But today all of that is forgotten and everyone is describing | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
21 people were murdered 42 years ago and not only were they buried | :02:56. | :03:09. | |
but we believe the establishment has tried to keep their memories | :03:10. | :03:11. | |
and their names and their lives and deaths well and truly buried. | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
But today Birmingham City Council have confirmed that their names, | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
their lives and their deaths and their memories will | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
be for ever invented in the history of this city. | :03:22. | :03:38. | |
their lives and their deaths and their memories will be forever -- | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
imbedded in the history of this city. | :03:42. | :03:42. | |
Birmingham now follows Liverpool who also bestowed the freedom | :03:43. | :03:44. | |
of the city on those who died in the Hillsborough disaster. | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
It was quite emotional, just seeing the councillors | :03:48. | :03:49. | |
all together backing our campaign, it was really quite emotional. | :03:50. | :03:51. | |
It brought a tear to my eye, to be honest. | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
What we really need now is all the MPs in the West | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
We have only got about four at the moment. | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
That would make all the difference, if we got the MPs behind us. | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
Today was the first time the city has granted | :04:04. | :04:05. | |
And Peter Wilson is here with me now. | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
An enormously significant landmark today, but the families' campaign | :04:10. | :04:11. | |
It certainly does and all three main political parties on the City | :04:12. | :04:22. | |
Council have given their backing to the families. The inquest into those | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
thefts reopens later this year but still the issue about -- inquest | :04:27. | :04:34. | |
into those deaths. But still be issue about the legal funding is at | :04:35. | :04:41. | |
a stand-off but what was interesting about today was this link with | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
Hillsborough, all the time the families saying we should be treated | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
the same as those families who were of course given legal funding. Thank | :04:50. | :04:51. | |
you. A record number of patients have | :04:52. | :04:53. | |
waited on trolleys in NHS hospitals in the first week of | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
the new year, according to data 485 patients waited | :04:57. | :04:58. | |
more than 12 hours. This time last year only 158 | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
patients had waited that long. But one of the worst affected | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
for long trolley waits was the University Hospitals | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
of North Midlands NHS Trust. Last Tuesday, 38 out | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
of 138 cases in England happened in Stoke on Trent, | :05:14. | :05:20. | |
on Thursday they had 33 out of 71 cases and on Sunday | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
they had 20 of the 29 cases. Well our reporter Ben Sidwell | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
is outside the Royal Stoke University hospital tonight - Ben | :05:27. | :05:28. | |
why is the situation so bad there? Well, let us try and put this into | :05:29. | :05:49. | |
context if we can. Between April and September the entire five months, | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
just 43 people were left waiting for more than 12 hours on a trolley. As | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
you just mentioned, three days in January, 91. The Chief Executive of | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
the trust that runs this hospital says it is mainly due to the high | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
levels of ambulance Conde and his and the fact that patients who are | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
medically fit, there is nowhere for them to go. They cannot let people | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
out to get the people in they need to. That speak to Jan, the chief | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
expected of health watch the aperture, an organisation that | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
monitor health care here in Staffordshire. For you, this must be | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
worrying that numbers are going up and up here. Is is extremely | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
worrying and we are concerned about the pressures on the system and the | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
fact that people are experiencing these very long waits and it is | :06:35. | :06:41. | |
worrying for patients and families. We have reported on the sad death of | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
two people who were on trolleys will so many hours. Numbers going up | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
here. Is it sadly that it is inevitable that that will happen | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
here? I am not sure about inevitable but it is a risk. All the work we | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
have done has shown that things are managed here well and although there | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
are long waits the right decisions are made about which people to see | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
quickly and who can wait but the pressures do keep stacking up. He | :07:08. | :07:14. | |
staff do a brilliant job but they're -- there are always risks. We very | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
keen to hear about peopleexperiences. Everyone with an | :07:18. | :07:24. | |
experience can get touch. The problem will not go away soon and | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
what they are saying here is do not come to the 999 unless you have two. | :07:28. | :07:34. | |
Levels of violence at Hewell Prison in Worcestershire are "far | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
too high", according to its latest inspection report. | :07:41. | :07:42. | |
The prison has two parts - a closed jail which holds more | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
than a thousand male prisoners and an open section | :07:46. | :07:47. | |
In the six months between February and August this year, | :07:48. | :07:56. | |
last year, there were 49 fights involving prisoners | :07:57. | :07:58. | |
In addition, four prisoners have taken their own lives since the jail | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
The prison is overcrowded and that's a big problem. | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
It puts a great strain on all the resources that | :08:06. | :08:07. | |
Certainly Hewell has seen the number of staff cut in | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
recent years and that has undoubtedly had an effect. | :08:12. | :08:13. | |
It means prisoners spend longer in their | :08:14. | :08:15. | |
cells and that can lead to rising tension. | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
Two men have been taken to hospital following a fight | :08:19. | :08:20. | |
in Stoney Lane in Sparkbrook, Birmingham yesterday evening. | :08:21. | :08:22. | |
One was stabbed in the neck, another in the arm. | :08:23. | :08:24. | |
Three teenagers, two aged 17 and one aged 19, | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
have been arrested on suspicion of violent disorder. | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
Police are investigating an incident in Birmingham city centre | :08:33. | :08:34. | |
in which a group of Morris Dancers were accused of racism. | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
A video posted online shows a confrontation in which a man | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
repeatedly denounces the practice of some dancers having | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
One of the Morris Dancers has made a complaint | :08:47. | :08:53. | |
Birmingham Councillor Brigid Jones has confirmed that none | :08:54. | :09:01. | |
of the witnesses who gave evidence to Birmingham City Council's inquiry | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
into the Trojan Horse allegations will have their names | :09:05. | :09:06. | |
Lawyers acting for teachers facing disciplinary action as a result | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
of the allegations there was a hard line Islamic plot to takeover city | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
schools, are pressing for the names of witnesses in the Department | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
of Education's inquiry, to be made public. | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
A court's heard a mother of three was strangled by her jealous | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
ex-partner after embarking on a new relationship. | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
The body of 26-year-old Wendy Mann was found on her kitchen floor | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
Leroy Sterling, who's 63, denies murder and the attempted | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
Our Black Country reporter Ben Godfrey | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
Wendy Mann had three children with Leroy Sterling, | :09:41. | :09:51. | |
The court has heard today that Stirling, fuelled by jealousy over | :09:52. | :10:06. | |
her new relationship with a 53 old man, Trevor Tindale, went to her | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
flat in West Bromwich, grabbed her, dragged her across the floor and | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
strangled her. The court has heard today that one month before her | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
death, Mr Tindale was attacked by Mr Stirling and he was stabbed in the | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
neck and suffered fractures. Sterling denies murder and attempted | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
murder. He's been aided by a translator. What forensics evidence | :10:33. | :10:40. | |
has been presented to the court? A partial DNA profile the court has | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
heard, was found in blood under the fingernails of Wendy man belonging | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
to sterling. Also, DNA on a water beaker inside the kitchen. Images | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
have been shown to the jury today and the prosecution say they detail | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
the movements of sterling from the murder scene on the day in question | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
to his own home, where he is apparently carrying a large holdall | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
carrying children's clothes removed from Wendy's flat. Trevor Tindale | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
detailed the alleged attack on him. He suspect denied murder and | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
attempted murder. This trial is due to last a fortnight. | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
Another attempt to get dairy farmers a better deal has been launched | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
"Black top" milk is the idea of the Free Range Milk Marketing Board. | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
They want to offer shoppers milk with a distinctive black cap | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
which costs 25% more than a standard bottle | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
with the extra money going direct to farmers. | :11:36. | :11:37. | |
Our Rural Affairs Correspondent David Gregory-Kumar | :11:38. | :11:38. | |
was at the launch and he's with me now, so is that the | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
This is it, this is black cap milk. The people behind this idea hope | :11:42. | :11:51. | |
that shoppers will soon find this on sale alongside familiar green and | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
red milk. If Green is semi-skimmed, what does double milk contain? The | :11:57. | :12:03. | |
farmer receives a fair price. The contract are fair, it is a | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
transparent situation, which enables the to invest in the best cows, | :12:07. | :12:13. | |
health and welfare. It is a fair way of doing things. This is an | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
Australian supermarket milk aisle and look at all the different milk | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
brands. They all offer shoppers something different. Here we tend to | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
see just whole, semi and semi-skimmed milk so the experts say | :12:28. | :12:30. | |
we could have space him for a brand-new milk brand. But will | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
British shoppers want to pay more? We know that when consumers get the | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
value of something, they will value it because if you buy a drink in a | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
pub you don't buy the cheapest beer necessarily, you buy what you like | :12:44. | :12:45. | |
because you understand what it is and that is what we are doing here. | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
700 farmers have signed up to this scheme so far and the organisers | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
hope to push that number up to 1000 in the next few week. I have heard | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
rumours that things are looking up for dairy farmers with milk prices | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
increasing. Milk prices are on the rise in general. These are the | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
official figures in the milk price from the dairy in Warwickshire. | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
There are several different lines there, different ways to look at | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
that price but the trend is clear, since the summer last year we have | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
seen the start of a little bit of a recovery. Not back to levels last | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
seen in 2013 but going back up nevertheless. But look at the huge | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
volatility in that price. This is why we are seeing dairy farmers try | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
all fours of ideas, like black cap milk, to try and survive and even | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
make money in the dairy game in the face of a roller-coaster milk price. | :13:37. | :13:38. | |
Thank you. Thanks for joining us | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
on Midlands Today, this 42 years on, special posthumous | :13:43. | :13:44. | |
recognition for victims Definitely getting cooler, | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
but not as cold as it was 1982 was a record breaking | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
year for Shropshire. Cold winds from Siberia | :13:52. | :13:59. | |
and lots of snow lead to temperatures falling | :14:00. | :14:01. | |
to minus 26.1 Celsius, Shawbury ground to a halt, | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
I'll be speaking to one man We may not be seeing the extremes of | :14:06. | :14:20. | |
Siberian cold heading our way this week but there is an Arctic blast | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
and a warning for snow. Details in the upcoming forecast. | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
Now, it's not your usual kind of building to get a royal opening, | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
but her Royal Highness, Princess Anne was in Shropshire | :14:34. | :14:35. | |
today to officially open an incinerator. | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
The multi million pound project will provide enough electricity | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
to power thousands of local homes, and even has its own visitor centre. | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
A royal visit to officially open Shrewsbury's new incinerator. | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
Tens of thousands of tonnes of non-recyclable household | :14:53. | :14:55. | |
waste is being processed here to produce electricity. | :14:56. | :14:58. | |
Officials say the new plant is an important part of the county's | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
Only 5% of the total rubbish produced in Shropshire goes | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
into landfill and a few years ago it was 100% going into landfill, | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
The plant's taken four years to build at a cost of ?63 million. | :15:14. | :15:20. | |
It operates in a similar way to a coal or gas powered station. | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
The main difference is that it uses local waste as fuel. | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
This is where the waste is processed. | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
It's delivered here by truck, mixed together by these cranes | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
and then the cranes transport it to the furnace. | :15:36. | :15:38. | |
90,000 tonnes of waste can be processed here each year and that's | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
The process produces gas and dust, which are treated to clean them up. | :15:43. | :15:50. | |
There is not a single health issue with the gas here at all, | :15:51. | :15:58. | |
so I would live very easily near a plant like that one. | :15:59. | :16:01. | |
No problem, nothing to worry and don't take my word for it, | :16:02. | :16:04. | |
you know, the government and a lot of bodies are controlling | :16:05. | :16:07. | |
The recycling rate across Shropshire has been above the national average | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
for many years and with this plant now officially opened, it is hoped | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
Nicola Beckford, BBC Midlands Today, Shrewsbury. | :16:17. | :16:24. | |
Rugby Union and Wasps' James Haskell is unlikely to be fit to play | :16:25. | :16:27. | |
The England forward came back from a long injury lay off | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
on Sunday, but played for just 35 seconds against Leicester before | :16:33. | :16:35. | |
But Wasps have been praised for putting player welfare first. | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
He'd waited all season for this - it was over in a flash. | :16:41. | :16:47. | |
Just 35 seconds into his seasonal debut and James Haskell suffered | :16:48. | :16:50. | |
And now the England international looks unlikely to face Toulouse | :16:51. | :16:59. | |
in the Champions Cup on Saturday. | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
Probably unlikely that he is going to be fit for the weekend at real | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
Probably unlikely that he is going to be fit for the weekend but real | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
difficult way to come back obviously but it happens, you know, | :17:14. | :17:16. | |
but thankfully there is nothing that is going to keep him off | :17:17. | :17:19. | |
He's laughing and joking about it and he's always the first guy | :17:20. | :17:22. | |
to give everybody a little bit of stick so here's having | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
Concussion has been a huge topic in rugby in recent seasons. | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
Much of that has centred around Wales international George North. | :17:30. | :17:31. | |
Two years ago he played on after this incident. | :17:32. | :17:34. | |
Now, any player that loses consciousness | :17:35. | :17:35. | |
I think the fact that it is a topic and that it is being talked | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
about can only be a positive thing for us as players but also | :17:41. | :17:43. | |
for the game as a whole, right from grassroots to the top | :17:44. | :17:46. | |
The fact that we are talking about it, the fact that people | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
are having discussions about it surely means that this topic | :17:51. | :17:52. | |
is going to take some time but hopefully it will move | :17:53. | :17:55. | |
Solihul GP Dr Lou Lupoli has worked in rugby for 20 years | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
He says the sport has benefited from re-search into dementia | :18:00. | :18:02. | |
He says the sport has benefited from research into dementia | :18:03. | :18:04. | |
Initially there is a risk that having had a head injury | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
they are less able to make decisions about themselves so they are more | :18:09. | :18:11. | |
prone to injury and very rarely they may sustain a second head | :18:12. | :18:14. | |
injury, which can lead to some very catastrophic | :18:15. | :18:16. | |
So, Wasps must continue their fine form without Haskell. | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
The top of the premiership and top of the pool | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
Victory over Toulouse on Saturday and the whole squad will be heading | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
Firefighters have helped rescue a cat in Walsall. | :18:29. | :18:38. | |
But this time, it hadn't got stuck up a tree, | :18:39. | :18:40. | |
It had got stuck in the drainage hole of a communal rubbish bin. | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
Fire crews and staff from the RSPCA were called in after a member | :18:46. | :18:48. | |
of the public heard the kitten meowing in Glebe Street on Monday. | :18:49. | :18:51. | |
The animal was unhurt and has since been nicknamed Dusty. | :18:52. | :19:00. | |
Not stuck in a bin, but the Blue Rock thrush has been | :19:01. | :19:03. | |
spotted in the UK for the first time in ten years. | :19:04. | :19:06. | |
It's taken up residence in Stow on the Wold in Gloucestershire, | :19:07. | :19:08. | |
attracting hundreds of bird enthusiasts. | :19:09. | :19:10. | |
Trying to catch a glimpse of history in the making. | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
These bird-watchers have come from across the country, | :19:17. | :19:18. | |
all in a bid to see something rarely seen, the Blue Rock thrush. | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
It's just exactly that, it's the being here | :19:24. | :19:26. | |
That's like a lifetime tick, if you like. | :19:27. | :19:36. | |
It is a big adrenaline rush and it's an even bigger adrenaline rush | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
You know, the guy who found this must have thought, yes! | :19:40. | :19:47. | |
It's just the seventh confirmed sighting of this bird since 1985. | :19:48. | :19:50. | |
Bridget Jennings spotted it in her garden just before Christmas | :19:51. | :19:57. | |
but didn't initially realise its importance. | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
It looked like a blackbird crossed with a starling, but in the light, | :20:02. | :20:04. | |
it was a sort of bluey colour and we weren't quite | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
A picture was posted online and since then, | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
bird-watchers have been flocking from as far as Singapore. | :20:13. | :20:15. | |
You know, we didn't realise what a furore it was going to cause, | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
but with all the twitchers coming and everything, you know, | :20:20. | :20:22. | |
The appearance has even boosted a charity that | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
These volunteers have been keeping the bird-watchers fueled | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
with teas and coffees, raising ?2000 in donations. | :20:33. | :20:34. | |
No one knows exactly how long the Blue Rock | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
Experts believe it could stay until the spring. | :20:39. | :20:46. | |
This week temperatures in Moscow have plummeted to -25 Celsius. | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
It's hard to imagine it being that cold isn't it? | :20:51. | :20:53. | |
But actually 35 years ago it was even colder | :20:54. | :20:55. | |
In fact, it was colder than the South Pole. | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
Rebecca Wood has been looking into those record | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
breaking temperatures - she's at RAF Shawbury this | :21:02. | :21:03. | |
evening where things are, I should think, a little less | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
Yes, they certainly are. It is a little warmer but not very warm, I | :21:07. | :21:21. | |
am keeping my coat on! In December 1981 and January 1982 we were down | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
to minus 20. In Shawbury we drop to minus 20.2. Just a few miles down | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
the road, they got even colder and that is where I spent this morning. | :21:32. | :21:34. | |
The West Midlands was blanketed in snow. | :21:35. | :21:37. | |
Temperatures across the region widely fell to -20 | :21:38. | :21:39. | |
And here at Harper Adams University in Shropshire, a record | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
It was this weather station where the mercury dropped to -26.1 | :21:44. | :21:49. | |
Celsius and that's still the lowest recorded temperature in England. | :21:50. | :21:51. | |
Grounds manager Mark Wall remembers the moment | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
It was just another cold night and of course it wasn't until days | :21:57. | :22:03. | |
later when all the rest of the data was in from around the country that | :22:04. | :22:06. | |
actually here, Harper Adams, was the coldest spot in England | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
Although the official reading was made in Newport, | :22:11. | :22:18. | |
it was originally attributed to Shawbury, where at the RAF base, | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
That day, it was too cold to even go out | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
Everyone turned up for work and made their way to work | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
but they didn't go out in the aircraft that day. | :22:34. | :22:35. | |
The base has its own dedicated Met Office staff because not flying | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
Well, that's down to a series of circumstances. | :22:40. | :22:49. | |
A perfect storm, whereby you combine all the factors, you have cold air, | :22:50. | :22:59. | |
ideal cooling conditions, plenty of snow on the ground, | :23:00. | :23:01. | |
good local geography, so all those factors combined | :23:02. | :23:03. | |
with the period of cold weather leading up to that, | :23:04. | :23:05. | |
With heavy snow, travel across the region was virtually | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
impossible and even the river Avon froze. | :23:11. | :23:12. | |
There's snow forecast later this week and chilly northerly winds, | :23:13. | :23:15. | |
we're in for a cold snap, but perhaps not as chilly as 1982. | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
Thankfully we are a good 20 degrees higher than that at the moment. It | :23:22. | :23:30. | |
is hard to imagine how it would feel to be that cold but Ian Forshaw was | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
a lad based here back then. Take me back to 1982. What are your | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
memories? I can remember one thing, it was so cold that the cold water | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
pipes froze and they are about one metre underground so people had to | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
ask neighbours if their taps were working and borrow water from them. | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
I have heard about diesel in tanks being frozen as well. Some of the | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
vehicles, there were no additives so somewhere frozen. You took a photo | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
of recordings of the temperature being taken. They were wearing skis. | :24:03. | :24:08. | |
Was it really that bad question what the people at the RAF always have a | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
good sense of humour and one of the gentleman went to work on his | :24:13. | :24:15. | |
cross-country skis and then the Met office check the temperature. -26.1, | :24:16. | :24:24. | |
it was cold! Oh yes, very cold. I think for about a week people try to | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
hibernate more than anything to stay warm. Has anything at Shawbury match | :24:29. | :24:35. | |
that? In 2010 it was picturesque. It wasn't that temperature but we had a | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
heavy frost and the whole airfield, the trees around, were very | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
picturesque. We have some nice calendar pictures that we used | :24:44. | :24:46. | |
later. This is a Griffin helicopter and this is a Griffin door for all | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
those Harry Potter fans. I couldn't resist! | :24:52. | :24:53. | |
And hundreds of you have been sharing your memories of the snow | :24:54. | :24:56. | |
and cold weather from 1982 on our Facebook page - | :24:57. | :24:59. | |
thanks so much, here's a small selection of what you've | :25:00. | :25:01. | |
been telling us. Carol Simpson wrote... | :25:02. | :25:03. | |
"We were walking on top of 8-foot snowdrifts which had cars | :25:04. | :25:06. | |
I had to shout out of the window and ask someone to phone my dad | :25:07. | :25:16. | |
"We were without power and water for days. | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
It was like the good old days when families spent evenings | :25:21. | :25:22. | |
together gathered around the fire in one room, actually | :25:23. | :25:24. | |
So, things looking cooler in the next few days | :25:25. | :25:32. | |
but not -26 Celsius, I hope. | :25:33. | :25:33. | |
Today, in contrast, was very mild. We had highs of seven to nine | :25:34. | :25:49. | |
Celsius and we had variable amounts of cloud, producing an array of | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
colours, from lilac too great to blue as well. You might want to add | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
white to that to the time we get to Thursday because we have a warning | :25:59. | :26:01. | |
in place for the south of the region. This is for localised | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
snowfall and this is for Herefordshire, Worcestershire honour | :26:06. | :26:07. | |
Gloucestershire and Warwickshire. At the moment it looks as though it | :26:08. | :26:10. | |
will produce minor disruption but that could change into something | :26:11. | :26:13. | |
more substantial by the time you get to that stage. This is what is | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
causing it, we have two areas of concern, this Arctic blast drawing | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
in cold air from the Northwest and that is going to combine with an | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
area of rain and crossing the country and that is during the | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
course of Thursday. We have to watch the northern extent of this rain and | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
the southern extent that cold air leading down from that direction | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
from the Arctic. Things are on a knife edge, really, because it | :26:41. | :26:43. | |
depends on how they join together and up into one another as to how | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
much snow we will get. Winds are going to be gusty over the next few | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
days and it is as those winds drop out on Friday that we could see a | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
widespread frost. Two areas of concern over the next few days, the | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
snow in the southern half of the region and a heavy frost on Friday | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
night into Saturday. Let us take a look at this evening and overnight | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
and we have got quite a bit of cloud across us right now so it will be | :27:09. | :27:11. | |
mild tonight, temperatures only boarding to six or seven Celsius. | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
Dry initially but then we have a warm sector set of fronts moving in | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
from the West during the early hours and that will bring in light, patchy | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
rain. This is how we start the day tomorrow, a bit of rain in the | :27:24. | :27:27. | |
south-east, a few spots in the north of the region but it will be a | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
mainly dry day. We start to see those gusts kicking in late in the | :27:32. | :27:34. | |
day. The mildest temperature will be in the morning. Highs of nine | :27:35. | :27:35. | |
Celsius dropping to four or five. I'll be back at 10.30pm | :27:36. | :27:39. | |
with your late update. It's back... Let's get ready to | :27:40. | :27:42. | |
grumble. ..with more belligerence... Can you imagine anything more | :27:43. | :28:27. | |
diabolical? ..moaning... ..and nonsensical items... | :28:28. | :28:30. | |
Don't send me a curve-ball, Nigel. | :28:31. | :28:38. |