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Tributes are paid to Graham Taylor - the former Aston Villa, | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
Wolves and England manager dies suddenly at the age of 72. | :00:11. | :00:17. | |
Without Graham I simply would not have had the career I had. He was | :00:18. | :00:26. | |
just such a great man. We will be live at Villa Park to | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
assess the huge impact that Graham Taylor had on the club. | :00:31. | :00:32. | |
Snow hits parts of the region, but the white-out fails to materialise. | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
Really nice. So pretty. It is the first time she has seen snow so I | :00:37. | :00:47. | |
brought her up to have Halep. -- have a look. | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
As the snow showers start to ease, ice becomes the next hazard | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
Getting back to basics - hopes to set up a new primary school | :00:54. | :00:59. | |
with nature at the heart of its curriculum. | :01:00. | :01:01. | |
And, looking sharp for a life in the ring - | :01:02. | :01:03. | |
one man's quest to become a WWE superstar. | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
An outstanding manager, lover of football | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
Just one of the hundreds of tributes paid to Graham Taylor, | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
the former Aston Villa, Wolves and England | :01:18. | :01:18. | |
The 72-year-old was well respected in the game, | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
Many have described him as honest and a true gentleman. | :01:25. | :01:30. | |
His death from a suspected heart attack has come as a shock. | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
Villa and Wolves are planning special tributes to their former | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
manager when the two sides meet at Molineux on Saturday. | :01:37. | :01:43. | |
The report contains flash photography. It is a shambles and | :01:44. | :01:56. | |
what is the point of saying anything else? | :01:57. | :01:57. | |
Graham Taylor always told it straight but he got results too. | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
Within nine months of his arrival at newly relegated Aston Villa | :02:01. | :02:02. | |
in 1987 he led them to promotion back to the top flight. | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
With a combination of outstanding signings and brilliant coaching | :02:06. | :02:07. | |
he then took Villa agonisingly close to winning the league title, before | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
I should never have let him go, really, but they wanted him and I | :02:11. | :02:24. | |
did a deal. He was one of the few that I got on very well with. He was | :02:25. | :02:35. | |
a well-educated man, articulate, and always says what is on his mind. He | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
involved everybody at the club, the tea lady, the man on the door, she | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
treated them the same way he would treat his multi-million-pound | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
signing. Aston Villa released a statement | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
saying, Graham will always have a place of honour in our history | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
books. He will always be remembered by staff who had the pleasure of | :03:01. | :03:02. | |
working with him. In 1994 Taylor returned to club | :03:03. | :03:03. | |
football with Wolves. There were only a handful of clubs | :03:04. | :03:15. | |
who I would have come back into football four and Wolverhampton | :03:16. | :03:16. | |
Wanderers were one of them. In his one full season | :03:17. | :03:18. | |
at Molineux they made it to the promotion playoffs | :03:19. | :03:20. | |
but that was as good as it got. Behind the scenes, though, | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
Taylor's role was critical in sowing Graham was very instrumental in how | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
our Academy and youth structure looks today and the plans were | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
implemented at that time have meant that we have gone on to have a | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
strong Academy structure, that is largely due to the work Graham did | :03:40. | :03:41. | |
in the 1990s. Wolves have already lowered the flag | :03:42. | :03:43. | |
over Molineux to half mast and are preparing a special programme for | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
Saturday's Championship match, which appropriately is against Aston | :03:47. | :03:48. | |
Villa. Both sets of fans will get | :03:49. | :03:49. | |
the chance to say goodbye to one of the region's best-loved and most | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
influential football managers. Dan Pallett is at Villa Park for us | :03:53. | :04:04. | |
tonight. This has come as a tremendous shot and the affection | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
has been obvious from the tributes paid throughout the day. It | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
certainly has. You can possibly see behind me a beautiful photo of | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
Graham here at Villa Park, because he was such a cherished gentleman. | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
There have been tributes on radio, TV and online. There are so many to | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
choose from but we can give you a few. | :04:29. | :05:03. | |
What was his impact as manager at Aston Villa? It was enormous. He | :05:04. | :05:13. | |
managed to avoid sacking from Doug Ellis, not many did. He joined when | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
they were in the second division, he got them promoted, they survived and | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
they were so close to winning the league championship, runners-up to | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
Liverpool. Then England came calling. I was speaking to Steve | :05:29. | :05:30. | |
Froggatt earlier today and he said Graham had a real eye for players. | :05:31. | :05:37. | |
Dwight Yorke was bought the ?10,000, he was sold for Manchester United | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
for ?13 million. A true gentleman, a proper footballing man. | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
And we will have some of your tributes to Graham Taylor | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
"An absolute disgrace" - that's how the sister of one | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
of the Hillsborough victims has described the announcement that 23 | :05:58. | :05:59. | |
people are to be investigated by the Crown Prosecution Service. | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
Louise Brookes, who's from Bromsgrove, says she's worried | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
that today's news about the numbers of criminal suspects | :06:06. | :06:07. | |
Sarah Bishop has more details for us. | :06:08. | :06:14. | |
Where has this number of 23 criminal suspects come from? | :06:15. | :06:21. | |
Go back four years and two separate criminal investigations were | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
launched. One of them, Operation Resolve, | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
focused on planning for the 1989 FA Cup match between Liverpool | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
and Nottingham Forest at Hillsborough and causes | :06:34. | :06:34. | |
of the disaster, in which 96 The other was an Independent Police | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
Complaints Commission investigation looking at the aftermath, | :06:38. | :06:44. | |
the alleged cover-up That examined not only | :06:45. | :06:46. | |
the South Yorkshire force but West Midlands too, | :06:47. | :06:48. | |
as it was the force which investigated the police | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
handling of Hillsborough. So, of those 23 suspects, | :06:52. | :06:52. | |
15 are related to the cause of the disaster, and eight suspects | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
are related to the alleged cover-up. At this stage the CPS | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
won't give names. The CPS now have to decide whether | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
to bring charges against the 23 - What's been the reaction of families | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
who lost loved ones at Hillsborough? I spoke earlier to Louise Brookes, | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
who lost her brother She was incandescent | :07:14. | :07:15. | |
about today's developments. She said it was absolutely | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
disgraceful that after five years this was the best the authorities | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
could do, 23 people. That they can scrape together eight | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
for the alleged cover-up is an insult to the | :07:26. | :07:27. | |
families, she said - she thinks the real figure | :07:28. | :07:29. | |
should be four times that. And she ended by saying she'd | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
like to know what they've been doing Now, the chairman of Hillsborough | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
Family Support Group, Trevor Hicks, lived in Kingswinford when he got | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
the news that his two I take the view that if someone has | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
committed a particular crime, offence, call it what | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
you like, and the... you know, what do they call it, | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
the tariff is the word they use, the tariff for that offence should | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
be what is applied. It may not suit people and I am sure | :07:59. | :08:00. | |
there will be a lot of people today As you said earlier, | :08:01. | :08:09. | |
West Midlands Police were the major investigating | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
force into the disaster. Yes, the West Midlands force not | :08:13. | :08:14. | |
only provided the evidence that led to the decision | :08:15. | :08:22. | |
there was "insufficient evidence" to prosecute the South Yorkshire | :08:23. | :08:24. | |
force but it also acted as Officers to the Coroner when the original | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
verdicts of "accidental Those was quashed in 2012 | :08:31. | :08:32. | |
and at the fresh inquests they This afternoon the force | :08:33. | :08:41. | |
released this statement. "Our thoughts remain with the family | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
and friends of loved ones who died West Midlands Police | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
continues to co-operate fully There have been flurries of snow | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
across the Midlands today, with the Staffordshire | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
moorlands most affected. It's not exactly been | :09:00. | :09:00. | |
a complete white-out, but there are warnings of more snow | :09:01. | :09:02. | |
and ice to come. The first significant snowfall | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
of winter and it was the A53 on the Staffordshire Moorlands that | :09:06. | :09:19. | |
felt it worst. By mid-afternoon it was spreading | :09:20. | :09:21. | |
further south, this is the scene on the eastern slopes of the Malvern | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
Hills. A fine dusting settled | :09:25. | :09:26. | |
on the Lickey Hills No dramas but still quite | :09:27. | :09:34. | |
exciting for some. Well, there's only a bit of it | :09:35. | :09:36. | |
but it's really nice. It's the first time she's seen snow, | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
so we brought her up to have a look. No rest for the gritters, | :09:40. | :09:47. | |
as attention switches to what tonight will bring - | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
the concern now is ice on untreated roads during tomorrow | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
morning's rush hour. We need to get out and about and get | :09:54. | :10:03. | |
some salt down. Watching all this with more than | :10:04. | :10:21. | |
a passing interest is a self-styled In the back garden of his home | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
in Kenzie, near Worcester, he designed and built | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
a sledge-cum-skiboard It was intended as a one-off | :10:29. | :10:29. | |
for his daughters but he's gone into commercial production and sold | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
27,000 over the past five years, It only needs a little bit of snow | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
and it looks like he's got his wish. We have waited six years for this | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
moment and now finally the Axiski is going to see some action | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
in the UK and I'm so excited and I know an awful lot of customers | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
of mine are also excited. But in the end, for the rest of us, | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
this much-anticipated weather event Less antarctic, more quite | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
literally damp squib. Giles is near Broadway tonight, | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
on Snowhill - but no snow. You can guarantee that if there is | :11:02. | :11:20. | |
not much of an accumulation here then I and large this weather event | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
has passed the Midlands by. A little dusting sets off the stone quite | :11:25. | :11:31. | |
nicely. You saw the greater is preparing to do battle with the | :11:32. | :11:44. | |
elements. -- gritters. Black ice is a real threat, temperatures | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
plummeting and up high where we are you can take my word for that. | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
And Rebecca is out on the balcony this evening, | :11:52. | :11:53. | |
enjoying the cold - so overnight and into tomorrow | :11:54. | :11:55. | |
could bring some interesting travel conditions? | :11:56. | :11:57. | |
Yes, Mary, we still have a handful of weather warnings in place | :11:58. | :12:05. | |
from the Met Office as our wintry conditions continue. | :12:06. | :12:07. | |
Plenty of heavy rain around today, not much in the way of snow. | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
But it is bitterly cold, already temperatures have fallen | :12:14. | :12:15. | |
to below freezing in parts of the region. | :12:16. | :12:17. | |
With wet surfaces following today's rain and sleet, attention turns | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
to treacherous driving conditions, particularly during tomorrow's | :12:22. | :12:23. | |
morning rush hour, as another band of potentially wintry showers moves | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
I'll be back with a full forecast later in the programme. | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
A pilot scheme to help ease tensions between students | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
at Coventry University and local residents is being rolled | :12:35. | :12:36. | |
Student wardens have been carrying out patrols since January last year | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
It follows complaints about litter and noise nuisance in some | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
Tidying up their neighbourhood, keen to improve their reputation | :12:46. | :12:57. | |
It is a charm offensive set to continue, as the university expands. | :12:58. | :13:06. | |
Students are great for the area, they bring money - the economy. | :13:07. | :13:08. | |
They bring youth and talent to the area. | :13:09. | :13:10. | |
What is important, and what we do, is we help bring students | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
Ten years ago Coventry's student population was around 15,000 but it | :13:16. | :13:29. | |
is heading towards 30000 and that has led to a huge boom in the | :13:30. | :13:32. | |
construction of student accommodation blocks like this one. | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
New ill beings can be found all over the city centre and many older | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
buildings have been or are being converted. At the university itself | :13:42. | :13:51. | |
work is coming to an end on the new teaching sciences block. | :13:52. | :13:59. | |
This new ?60 million teaching block will emulate a hospital. | :14:00. | :14:01. | |
The university are keen to outline the benefits. | :14:02. | :14:03. | |
The students are contributing ?100 million to the local | :14:04. | :14:05. | |
economy in spend on top of their tutition fees. | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
The economic impact of the university is one | :14:09. | :14:09. | |
Back on the streets surrounding the city centre, the charm offensive | :14:10. | :14:16. | |
continues. Why is the chewing gum | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
on the floor all the time? I have the opportunity to talking to | :14:22. | :14:39. | |
a resident and I can do whatever I can to help them. | :14:40. | :14:41. | |
This pilot scheme has now become permanent. | :14:42. | :14:44. | |
So Coventry residents may soon be receiving a knock at the door | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
44 people have been made redundant and more than 100 other | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
jobs are still at risk, after the Redditch firm AMS went | :14:54. | :14:55. | |
AMS, which installs shop interiors, was founded in 1919 | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
Administrators KPMG say the company has faced significant | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
challenges in recent times, through increasing competition | :15:07. | :15:08. | |
A speech by the Home Secretary at the Conservative Party conference | :15:09. | :15:15. | |
in Birmingham has been logged as a "hate incident" by police. | :15:16. | :15:18. | |
Amber Rudd set out a number of possible measures to reduce | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
immigration in the speech, prompting a complaint | :15:23. | :15:24. | |
to police by Joshua Silver, a physics professor | :15:25. | :15:26. | |
West Midlands Police said there was no evidence of a hate | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
A man who builds replica off-road vehicles for children | :15:33. | :15:43. | |
has been describing his sadness after all eight of his | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
Steve Gardner says the vehicles represent his life's work, | :15:47. | :15:49. | |
This is just after I finished the Jeep Rebel 1. | :15:50. | :15:56. | |
James, as you can see, is in the photograph. | :15:57. | :15:58. | |
Steve Gardner made these replica off-road cars for his | :15:59. | :16:05. | |
own sons nearly 30 years ago and now builds them commercially for private | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
But on Tuesday night his eight original | :16:09. | :16:11. | |
They can't be replaced, especially Rebel 1, | :16:12. | :16:23. | |
It was originally going to be given to | :16:24. | :16:26. | |
I made it for her father when he was three. | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
Next year she will be three and it was going | :16:31. | :16:32. | |
CCTV captured burglars entering the yard at Steve's home in Malvern. | :16:33. | :16:39. | |
They returned later in a vehicle and then they towed away his | :16:40. | :16:42. | |
27 years worth of my work has gone into | :16:43. | :16:45. | |
building those vehicles and someone seems to think that they can just | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
The trailer without the prototypes was later found in a field ten miles | :16:49. | :16:57. | |
away. Steve has this message for the burglars. You might want to bring | :16:58. | :17:04. | |
them back. You can't sell them. By the way, you forgot to take the | :17:05. | :17:10. | |
battery chargers so you only have about three hours of use before you | :17:11. | :17:17. | |
can't use them anyway. West Mercia Police are appealing for witnesses. | :17:18. | :17:19. | |
Thanks for joining us on Midlands Today, this | :17:20. | :17:21. | |
Tributes are paid to Graham Taylor, the former Aston Villa, | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
Wolves and England manager who's died suddenly at the age of 72. | :17:27. | :17:29. | |
And hundreds of you have been paying tribute to Graham | :17:30. | :17:31. | |
on our Facebook page, and the affection for him | :17:32. | :17:34. | |
Paul Whittaker told us "I was fortunate to meet him a couple | :17:35. | :17:48. | |
of times while he was manager at Wolves. | :17:49. | :17:50. | |
I was only 11 or 12, but I always remember how | :17:51. | :17:52. | |
he listened to my opinions on team matters and took the time | :17:53. | :17:55. | |
A true gentleman and honest football man." | :17:56. | :18:06. | |
Lisa McLellan posted "RIP Legend, one of the greatest managers ever." | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
And Dawn Milman-Hurst said "Wonderful man, | :18:11. | :18:12. | |
who gave up lots of his time for charity. | :18:13. | :18:14. | |
Supported us with a number of events with appearances | :18:15. | :18:16. | |
and coaching for youngsters - very sad news." | :18:17. | :18:18. | |
Thanks very much for your tributes, and you can add your own comments | :18:19. | :18:21. | |
It's called Surviving Winter, and in the six years it's been | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
running in our region it's helped 80,000 people. | :18:26. | :18:27. | |
Not just homeless people and rough sleepers, but families affected | :18:28. | :18:30. | |
In Leamington Spa, the campaign is helping a project | :18:31. | :18:33. | |
Its grand architecture speaks of an affluent past - | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
but Kenny Crawford knows the truth behind the Regency facade. | :18:39. | :18:44. | |
This was my place where I used to reside on a Monday, Tuesday and | :18:45. | :18:54. | |
Thursday evening when shelters were unavailable. | :18:55. | :18:56. | |
For months he lived on the streets, after becoming homeless | :18:57. | :18:58. | |
Now, though, he has a job as a chef, and volunteers with the charity | :18:59. | :19:07. | |
Helping Hands, which helped him get back on his feet. | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
I have had a lot of offers and things have definitely changed for | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
me. Helping Hands run a shop | :19:18. | :19:19. | |
and a drop-in centre in the town. We call the our friends, not the | :19:20. | :19:31. | |
homeless, and we see them day in, day out and we are giving them back | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
their self-esteem and helping them get back into work. | :19:36. | :19:37. | |
Helping Hands is one of a number of charities to benefit | :19:38. | :19:39. | |
from the Surviving Winter campaign which is run by the Heart | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
of England Community Foundation, which is asking people to donate | :19:43. | :19:44. | |
their Winter Fuel Allowance if they are able to do without it. | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
We are so conscious of the crisis of homelessness across the West | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
Midlands and also people in and out of work who are dependent on food | :19:54. | :19:59. | |
banks to feed their families, and older people in isolation, so those | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
are the three main causes we are through this campaign. -- we are | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
supporting through. For Kenny, Helping Hands has | :20:09. | :20:09. | |
proved to be the help For children with a love | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
of the great outdoors, this could make going to school | :20:13. | :20:15. | |
a lot more appealing. Warwickshire Wildlife Trust | :20:16. | :20:18. | |
is hoping to set up four new primary schools with nature at the heart | :20:19. | :20:20. | |
of the curriculum. They say much of the learning | :20:21. | :20:23. | |
at the new "nature schools" Our environment correspondent, | :20:24. | :20:25. | |
David Gregory-Kumar, has Brandon Marsh nature | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
reserve near Coventry, home to some excited woodland | :20:29. | :20:30. | |
creatures, getting Brandon Marsh is also headquarters | :20:31. | :20:32. | |
for Warwickshire Wildlife Trust. And it's the trust that is | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
leading plans for nature Some of these children could be | :20:38. | :20:40. | |
amongst the very first pupils. Children at our schools will still | :20:41. | :20:55. | |
have to learn their times tables, learn to read and write, but we are | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
preparing an educational philosophy that will allow teachers to achieve | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
that learning outside, using the lateral setting as much as the | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
classroom. So they will be outside a bit more? They will be. They will | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
probably be coming home a bit dirtier than they might otherwise. | :21:14. | :21:16. | |
Initially four nature-based primary schools are planned, | :21:17. | :21:17. | |
with two in the Midlands - one in Smethwick... | :21:18. | :21:36. | |
and the other, Warwickshire, the Camp Hill School. | :21:37. | :21:38. | |
And it's the Camp Hill School that might be the very first | :21:39. | :21:40. | |
nature school in the UK, in a location that might | :21:41. | :21:43. | |
It was identified as the area with greatest need for a new school and | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
we are going to create out door spaces for learning, wildlife areas, | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
possibly beehives, very exciting. Perhaps not surprisingly parents | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
visiting the trust's Some have already looked | :21:57. | :21:58. | |
into applying to the new school. She loves being outdoors and we | :21:59. | :22:05. | |
would like that for her for education really. The outside is an | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
amazing place to learn and I think you can have so many experiences | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
that are not traditional education that still give you the same | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
knowledge that you would have in a classroom, so I think it is | :22:18. | :22:18. | |
brilliant. If all goes very well the UK's first | :22:19. | :22:20. | |
nature school could open A charity is on the lookout | :22:21. | :22:23. | |
for volunteer "otter spotters" Otter numbers had been | :22:24. | :22:30. | |
in decline since the 1950s because of habitat loss | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
and pesticide use. But improvements in water quality | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
mean they have made a comeback. Now the Canal and River Trust wants | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
local people to build a better picture of where otters | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
are most active. If you are of a certain vintage, the | :22:45. | :22:57. | |
names giant haystacks and Big Daddy will be familiar. | :22:58. | :23:05. | |
36-year-old wrestler Trent Seven, from Wolverhampton, | :23:06. | :23:06. | |
will compete in Blackpool this weekend in the first | :23:07. | :23:08. | |
It will be watched by millions worldwide. | :23:09. | :23:11. | |
Looking for one of the meanest wrestlers in Britain? | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
What can I do for you today? Quick moustache trim. | :23:16. | :23:26. | |
Meet Trent Seven, owner of one of the finest moustaches | :23:27. | :23:29. | |
in the Midlands and a man on a mission. | :23:30. | :23:31. | |
I am going to roll down moustache mountain to the Emperor bowl in | :23:32. | :23:41. | |
Blackpool. The first ever winner of the UK Championship tournament. Come | :23:42. | :23:44. | |
Sunday evening I will be walking away crowned the first-ever WWE | :23:45. | :23:55. | |
United Kingdom champion. And that is something else. | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
It's the biggest brand in world wrestling and this weekend WWE | :24:01. | :24:03. | |
will stage their first British title. | :24:04. | :24:10. | |
I think Trent has a great opportunity to make it through this | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
tournament. He is one of my favourites to wind this thing. Trent | :24:16. | :24:24. | |
has everything. -- to win this thing. | :24:25. | :24:26. | |
It's less than a year since sales manager Ben Webb gave up his job | :24:27. | :24:29. | |
It is not so bad when he does the more entertainment side of it but | :24:30. | :24:47. | |
the moves and the head slams and the body drops, I shut my eyes and grit | :24:48. | :24:49. | |
my teeth really! Training alongside Trent | :24:50. | :24:51. | |
is 19-year-old Tyler Bate. Now I am getting a chance to | :24:52. | :25:01. | |
actually showcase how good I am at wrestling to the WWE and hopefully | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
it leads on to something even bigger than just this tournament. | :25:06. | :25:07. | |
Trent is also preparing for a world title under | :25:08. | :25:09. | |
the Insane Championship Wrestling banner next month. | :25:10. | :25:11. | |
Now he's dreaming of becoming a household name around the world. | :25:12. | :25:23. | |
We will of course let you know how he gets on! | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
Let's get some more detail on the snow, Rebecca is braving | :25:28. | :25:29. | |
the chilly temperatures outside our offices. | :25:30. | :25:36. | |
It is bitterly cold, due to northerly winds. | :25:37. | :25:43. | |
Very chilly out and about tonight, the temperature has plummeted | :25:44. | :25:45. | |
and despite gritters being sent out across the region | :25:46. | :25:47. | |
conditions this evening are likely to be icy | :25:48. | :25:49. | |
and we have a Met Office yellow weather warning | :25:50. | :25:51. | |
in place for ice overnight tonight into tomorrow. | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
We still have a yellow weather warning for snow through to tonight | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
across Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire. | :26:00. | :26:01. | |
But we also have another yellow weather warning for snow tomorrow | :26:02. | :26:13. | |
in the Welsh borders of Shropshire, where further snow | :26:14. | :26:15. | |
The low pressure system that brought rain and some sleet and snow | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
changed to a northerly, bringing much colder | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
So for tonight temperatures are plummeting, there | :26:24. | :26:26. | |
is still the possibility of a few wintry showers blowing | :26:27. | :26:29. | |
down from the north, particularly over higher ground. | :26:30. | :26:30. | |
And under clearing skies we can expect a widespread frost | :26:31. | :26:33. | |
with lows of minus two, a very cold night to come. | :26:34. | :26:35. | |
Surfaces tomorrow are likely to be icy so do take care on the roads | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
Stay tuned to your BBC local radio station throughout the morning. | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
As well as the risk of ice we also have some showers sinking | :26:45. | :26:47. | |
southwards during the morning, which again could lead to some | :26:48. | :26:49. | |
Once those clear we'll be left with a fine and dry day, | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
bitterly cold in northerly winds, but cold and crisp with | :26:54. | :26:55. | |
plenty of brightness - but in that wind chill temperatures | :26:56. | :26:58. | |
will feel more like sub-zero, so even though they might | :26:59. | :27:01. | |
get up to five Celsius, it will feel more like minus one or two. | :27:02. | :27:13. | |
Another fine, dry but chilly day on the way on Saturday, | :27:14. | :27:19. | |
staying bright and the winds still fairly strong, so again | :27:20. | :27:22. | |
temperatures are likely to feel much colder in the winds. | :27:23. | :27:25. | |
It is not until Sunday when a weather system comes through that we | :27:26. | :27:32. | |
start to get less cold. But we are not done yet because it is going to | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
get much colder by the end of next week. | :27:37. | :27:41. | |
I'll be back at 10.30 with your next news, | :27:42. | :27:43. | |
when we'll have more tributes to Graham Taylor, who has | :27:44. | :28:13. | |
..and keep telling yourself over and over, "This will end." | :28:14. | :28:13. | |
Ladies and gentlemen, the bride and groom. | :28:14. | :28:14. | |
So what if I forgot our poxy anniversary? | :28:15. | :28:17. | |
Er, I think this year was copper. 14th is poxy. | :28:18. | :28:20. | |
Marriage is a marathon, not a sprint. | :28:21. | :28:22. | |
Like a marathon, you have to keep on going... | :28:23. | :28:24. | |
..drink as much as you can... Please tell me you can see them, too. | :28:25. | :28:29. | |
..and keep telling yourself over and over, "This will end." | :28:30. | :28:34. |