:00:00. > :00:00.The headlines tonight... and on BBC One we now join the BBC's
:00:00. > :00:07.Strong winds and overnight snow hit the region with schools closed
:00:08. > :00:10.and treacherous conditions on the roads.
:00:11. > :00:13.Is that the end of it or is there more to come?
:00:14. > :00:19.Shock for voters in Stoke-on-Trent as Tristram Hunt quits as an MP.
:00:20. > :00:21.Very tough decision to leave Stoke-on-Trent but being
:00:22. > :00:23.the director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, the greatest
:00:24. > :00:26.museum of art and design, was my dream job and it was not
:00:27. > :00:35.Could eagles be a way to stop drugs getting into our prisons?
:00:36. > :00:37.I'm in Ludlow on the trail of a hoard of gold found
:00:38. > :00:43.And snow for some, bitterly cold winds, and ice warnings
:00:44. > :00:47.for the first half of the weekend, but a change is coming by Sunday.
:00:48. > :01:05.More than 100 schools were closed across Stoke and Staffordshire today
:01:06. > :01:11.Conditions have eased throughout the day but a yellow weather warning
:01:12. > :01:15.for ice does remain in force for the whole region until midnight.
:01:16. > :01:17.Winds have made it feel colder too, as well as causing
:01:18. > :01:23.Among the incidents witnessed by the busy emergency services
:01:24. > :01:26.was the birth of a baby in the back of a police car!
:01:27. > :01:33.With two inches of snow, school was out for thousands of children
:01:34. > :01:38.58 schools closed in the county and a further 47
:01:39. > :01:47.After a morning tobogganing, six-year-old Frankie was enjoying
:01:48. > :01:50.a quiet afternoon with her dad, Sean.
:01:51. > :01:54.A civil servant, Sean would normally have to have a day off for sudden
:01:55. > :01:58.school snow closures but thankfully he was still on paternity leave.
:01:59. > :02:01.When it is icy, it is, it is lethal, cos the road here isn't gritted
:02:02. > :02:05.at all and they struggle to get up and the cars are sliding around
:02:06. > :02:10.and if anyone's on the road, even the pavements, it
:02:11. > :02:15.I think they are right, actually, to close here.
:02:16. > :02:17.But not all parents could see the sense in shutting down
:02:18. > :02:21.this primary school, and dozens more like it.
:02:22. > :02:24.Just because it's snowing, they're giving them time off.
:02:25. > :02:30.And I'm only just here, do you know what I mean?
:02:31. > :02:39.On higher ground further south in Worcestershire,
:02:40. > :02:41.the Lickey Hills felt the full force of winter's icy grip.
:02:42. > :02:45.In Shropshire it was high winds that caused chaos.
:02:46. > :02:47.In Madeley in Telford, this tree came down on someone's car.
:02:48. > :02:54.Councils around the regions say they're doing their best
:02:55. > :02:57.with gritting but, as this accident at Birches Head in Stoke shows,
:02:58. > :03:01.not all roads are safe, and with no let up in the freezing
:03:02. > :03:14.temperatures motorists are tonight being warned to take extra care.
:03:15. > :03:16.Sarah is outside the Royal Stoke Hospital in Stoke for us now
:03:17. > :03:32.At about 8am before the snow turned to slush, MLA McBride and her
:03:33. > :03:38.partner were going on an important journey to the paternity unit here
:03:39. > :03:41.because there are baby was coming. The car didn't agree with the
:03:42. > :03:46.freezing temperatures and it broke down. They called for help and it
:03:47. > :03:50.came in the form of a police patrol car which took them in with the
:03:51. > :03:56.lights flashing. They didn't get to the maternity unit before the baby
:03:57. > :04:01.was delivered on the back-seat. Mother and baby are doing well and
:04:02. > :04:05.the father is said to be relieved and the police officers are in need
:04:06. > :04:09.of a cup of tea! Another example of how the cold weather has scuppered
:04:10. > :04:10.people's lives today. There's going to be a by-election
:04:11. > :04:13.in Stoke-on-Trent after MP Tristram Hunt resigned to become
:04:14. > :04:15.the director of the Victoria Elizabeth Glinka has been
:04:16. > :04:18.following today's announcement So does this decision
:04:19. > :04:22.come as a surprise? For those that know
:04:23. > :04:25.Tristram Hunt I suspect this He had a successful career prior
:04:26. > :04:29.to becoming an MP as a historian, writing books and even
:04:30. > :04:31.presenting TV documentaries. And it's no secret that he's more
:04:32. > :04:35.to the right of the Labour Party and has not been a fan
:04:36. > :04:39.of Jeremy Corbyn's leadership, resigning from the Shadow
:04:40. > :04:42.Cabinet last year. Here he is talking about his
:04:43. > :04:45.decision earlier today. It's a very tough decision to leave
:04:46. > :04:48.Stoke-on-Trent but being director of the Victoria and Albert Museum,
:04:49. > :04:51.the greatest museum of art and design, was my dream job
:04:52. > :04:53.and it was not something I have had differences with Jeremy
:04:54. > :04:58.in the past but I'm now off to be a museum director,
:04:59. > :05:01.an impartial director of a great museum, and so its not the time
:05:02. > :05:07.to rehearse those differences now. Another factor that may have
:05:08. > :05:09.influenced Mr Hunt's decision is that there are big
:05:10. > :05:12.boundary changes on the way. The number of MPs is being cut and,
:05:13. > :05:16.as part of that, Stoke-on-Trent which currently has three MPs
:05:17. > :05:20.is going down to two. That would have meant Mr Hunt
:05:21. > :05:24.fighting it out with his Labour colleagues Ruth Smeath
:05:25. > :05:28.and Rob Flello in 2020, for who would run in the two
:05:29. > :05:30.new constituencies. But as it is, someone else
:05:31. > :05:33.will now have that pleasure. As I'm sure most people
:05:34. > :05:35.are aware, Mr Hunt is not a local boy,
:05:36. > :05:37.and there was some controversy when he was "parachuted"
:05:38. > :05:40.in to the seat by the national party in the run up to the 2010
:05:41. > :05:43.general election. Nevertheless, he's been
:05:44. > :05:48.a high profile figure, and a passionate advocate
:05:49. > :05:50.for the Potteries, particularly its industrial heritage,
:05:51. > :05:53.pushing for the city to really play This was what people
:05:54. > :05:58.were saying in Stoke today. He has got a presence in the city,
:05:59. > :06:02.I think it's fair to say. He is not local but I think he has
:06:03. > :06:08.tried his best to represent Stoke. He was going to lose his seat anyway
:06:09. > :06:11.so he might as well jump. I don't really know what he's done
:06:12. > :06:14.or what he's been doing, so quitting I don't think
:06:15. > :06:17.will make much difference. A lot of people will probably turn
:06:18. > :06:19.round and say he has I think is going to a better job
:06:20. > :06:27.than the one he has got, probably. And a very nice job too,
:06:28. > :06:30.with a salary more than double Now, of course,
:06:31. > :06:35.we face a by-election. Stoke-on-Trent is a solid Labour
:06:36. > :06:38.city, but we know the Labour Party nationally is not polling well
:06:39. > :06:41.and in Stoke-on-Trent Central the party's majority has fallen
:06:42. > :06:48.from a high point of around 20,000 in 1997 to
:06:49. > :06:53.about 5,000 in 2015. You can see Ukip in
:06:54. > :07:02.second place there. They were well behind,
:07:03. > :07:06.but they did come second in 2015 pretty much neck-and-neck
:07:07. > :07:08.with the Conservatives, so we may have quite a feisty battle
:07:09. > :07:15.on our hands in the coming months. New figures show how some
:07:16. > :07:17.of the region's hospitals are continuing to struggle to meet
:07:18. > :07:20.the needs of patients under Six NHS Trusts spent a day
:07:21. > :07:26.or more last week either at level three or four,
:07:27. > :07:30.the highest states of alert. The son of a pensioner
:07:31. > :07:32.who waited overnight in a corridor for treatment says
:07:33. > :07:34.the system is broken. Another emergency,
:07:35. > :07:39.another patient heading In this pressurised winter,
:07:40. > :07:44.the tightest of pinch points. That's the problem, you can't get
:07:45. > :07:47.away from that fact. Graeme's dad, Derek,
:07:48. > :07:50.went to A there on Monday. He spent 15 hours in a corridor,
:07:51. > :07:58.it was 48 hours before he got It wasn't that they were abandoned,
:07:59. > :08:04.in any sense of the word. There were staff there,
:08:05. > :08:06.paramedics and nurses, and everyone was being looked after,
:08:07. > :08:09.but it was clearly a system that was overloaded and was getting
:08:10. > :08:16.close to not being able to cope. In a statement, the hospital said
:08:17. > :08:19.pressures here are continuing but they have robust plans
:08:20. > :08:21.for dealing with them. It also confirmed that in the two
:08:22. > :08:33.weeks after January the 4th, -- It also confirmed that in the two
:08:34. > :08:36.weeks up to January the 4th, 109 patients waited 12 hours or more
:08:37. > :08:39.for treatment in A Figures out today show,
:08:40. > :08:42.in the first week of the year, one hospital, the Royal Stoke,
:08:43. > :08:44.spent a day at level four, formerly black alert,
:08:45. > :08:46.where comprehensive patient care It spent the next three
:08:47. > :08:49.days on level three, what used to be red alert,
:08:50. > :08:52.denoting major pressures, along Shrewsbury and Telford two
:08:53. > :08:56.days at level three. Russells Hall in Dudley
:08:57. > :08:57.and Coventry's University An expert on the NHS says
:08:58. > :09:05.there's no quick fix... There is a need for more beds
:09:06. > :09:08.but the sort of beds that are probably needed,
:09:09. > :09:10.or the sort of support that is often needed,
:09:11. > :09:13.is probably out there in social care or in community hospitals
:09:14. > :09:15.or community services, so that people can move on to those
:09:16. > :09:18.services after they've had their initial assessment
:09:19. > :09:22.and treatment in hospital. None of our A shut their doors
:09:23. > :09:26.to patients but the demands they're facing were never greater,
:09:27. > :09:28.the fault lines And the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn
:09:29. > :09:38.has described the trolley waits at Worcester and Stoke
:09:39. > :09:39.as "a disaster". He was talking to our
:09:40. > :09:41.Political Editor Patrick So what exactly would he do about it
:09:42. > :09:50.if he were Prime Minister? At the usual risk of Labour
:09:51. > :09:52.being characterised as throwing taxpayers' money
:09:53. > :09:54.at whatever problems come along, he does say the cash must be found
:09:55. > :10:09.to keep local accident and emergency He is concerned about the one at
:10:10. > :10:11.Redditch which is being downgraded which he sees as part and parcel of
:10:12. > :10:13.their problems in Worcestershire. And he clearly feels that this
:10:14. > :10:16.at least is one issue on which he has strong
:10:17. > :10:17.public support. The issue has to be
:10:18. > :10:20.that the shortage of doctors, GP waiting lists and waiting times,
:10:21. > :10:22.long waiting times in A departments, record numbers now not
:10:23. > :10:24.being seen within four hours, and a shortage of staff,
:10:25. > :10:27.let's recognise it's our NHS, we all depend on it
:10:28. > :10:50.and we all need it. Where is this all heading?
:10:51. > :10:51.I think the politicians are at the mercy of events and probably even
:10:52. > :10:53.the weather. The Government do realise
:10:54. > :10:55.the seriousness of all this. I understand they've set up
:10:56. > :10:58.a Cabinet Office project to examine health and social care
:10:59. > :10:59.in the long term. The former Health Secretary Stephen
:11:00. > :11:02.Dorrell is now in charge of a five-year plan for health
:11:03. > :11:04.and social care in Birmingham debate is "degerating
:11:05. > :11:11.into a blame game". Around 100 jobs will be created
:11:12. > :11:14.in Telford after a car parts manufacturer announced plans
:11:15. > :11:16.for a new factory. Austrian firm Polytec currently
:11:17. > :11:19.has its UK headquarters in Bromyard. The company says there won't be any
:11:20. > :11:24.job losses in Herefordshire. Maternity services
:11:25. > :11:26.won't be returning to Stafford's County Hospital
:11:27. > :11:28.after an NHS England review found Consultant-led obstetrics were moved
:11:29. > :11:37.to the Royal Stoke last January. The review says moving services back
:11:38. > :11:40.wouldn't make financial sense, and the birth-rate in Stafford
:11:41. > :11:42.would be too low to sustain adequate A dog trainer has been warned
:11:43. > :11:49.he could face a prison sentence after allowing his dogs to kill
:11:50. > :11:52.and injure more than 50 lambs. Charles Ross-Robertson,
:11:53. > :11:54.from Stanton Lacy in Herefordshire, admitted allowing his two
:11:55. > :12:00.Rottweilers to be An application has been made
:12:01. > :12:07.for the dogs to be destroyed. It's a recognised fact that
:12:08. > :12:10.drugs are being taken into jails and sold there,
:12:11. > :12:11.something the authorities We've been speaking to a man just
:12:12. > :12:17.released from Hewell Prison in Worcestershire, which he says
:12:18. > :12:21.is "rife with drugs". Adrian Mason claims drones,
:12:22. > :12:23.controlled by mobile phones, Today, the Ministry of Justice has
:12:24. > :12:29.told us it was recruiting more staff to deal with the problem
:12:30. > :12:31.of drones and drugs. Here's our special
:12:32. > :12:34.correspondent, Peter Wilson. But, increasingly, criminals
:12:35. > :12:43.are using them to fly Straight over the wall, straight in,
:12:44. > :12:52.guide it to where you want it, Adrian Mason is a
:12:53. > :12:59.former armed robber. He was on remand six months ago
:13:00. > :13:03.at HMP Hewell near Redditch. He says prisoners control
:13:04. > :13:07.the drones with smartphones, Your man has already
:13:08. > :13:12.got it linked up. He puts it up, you take
:13:13. > :13:15.control, bring it in. Technology, the government are way
:13:16. > :13:21.behind with technology. All they can do is try and chase
:13:22. > :13:24.them down and hook them off with a stick or throw something
:13:25. > :13:27.at it or just lie in wait. In Holland, security
:13:28. > :13:31.teams have trained eagles Why should we believe
:13:32. > :13:40.what you're saying? After all, you've done such
:13:41. > :13:43.a lot of time in prison. Don't get me wrong, I'm
:13:44. > :13:45.a hardened criminal. I was in there and I'm looking
:13:46. > :13:49.at people getting bullied and robbed and collapsing and stuff,
:13:50. > :13:51.I just couldn't believe how bad it Adrian Mason was shoplifting
:13:52. > :13:58.at the age of nine. By the time he was 14,
:13:59. > :14:01.he was in a young offender prison. He's on the straight and narrow now
:14:02. > :14:05.but says the huge sums of money to be made inside our jails
:14:06. > :14:09.are beyond belief. You buy a phone out
:14:10. > :14:12.here for ?50-?100. You can sell it in
:14:13. > :14:14.there for ?800-?900. Some people are quite happy to sit
:14:15. > :14:22.in there, in a cell, with a phone for two or three years
:14:23. > :14:25.cos they'll make five, ten times the amount of money
:14:26. > :14:29.they'll make out here. HMP Hewell was this week criticised
:14:30. > :14:32.in an inspection report for high More than 30 drones were officially
:14:33. > :14:40.sighted near UK prisons in 2015. The government is looking
:14:41. > :14:44.at the Dutch experiment with eagles. But Today the Ministry of Justice
:14:45. > :14:48.says it's recruiting more human staff and sniffer dogs to tackle
:14:49. > :14:51.the problems of drones and drugs. Peter Wilson, BBC Midlands
:14:52. > :14:57.Today, Worcestershire. It sounds like a Hollywood script
:14:58. > :15:03.delivering drugs like pizzas Perhaps we really do need a flying
:15:04. > :15:17.squad! So worried are the authorities that
:15:18. > :15:19.they're talking to the manufacturers of the drones about programming
:15:20. > :15:22.the GPS locations of prisons into the drones' software to prevent
:15:23. > :15:24.the radio controlled planes Last month, rioting at
:15:25. > :15:27.Birmingham Prison cost ?2 million. That's partly blamed
:15:28. > :15:30.on the easy access of The Prison Officers' Association say
:15:31. > :15:36.that just yesterday four drones Yes, drones are a problem
:15:37. > :15:44.and the problem is getting bigger. They are flying all
:15:45. > :15:49.sorts into the prisons. We do know there have been tools
:15:50. > :15:52.brought in, and legal highs Drones can fly straight
:15:53. > :15:55.to cell windows and drop and the effects of legal highs can
:15:56. > :16:00.be anything from a prisoner collapsing to a prisoner
:16:01. > :16:03.becoming extremely violent. Well, they recognise that the Prison
:16:04. > :16:09.Service is in crisis. 2,500 extra staff
:16:10. > :16:13.are to be recruited. And 300 dogs trained to detect drugs
:16:14. > :16:18.and legal highs and those caught using banned substances
:16:19. > :16:24.will face extra time in jail. Thanks for joining us
:16:25. > :16:27.on Midlands Today. Overnight snow leads to school
:16:28. > :16:35.closures in the region, then gales brought problems
:16:36. > :16:37.on the roads. We've had heavy snow,
:16:38. > :16:39.heavy rain, frost and gales in the last 24 hours,
:16:40. > :16:41.but what about the weekend? Beccy's here shortly
:16:42. > :16:43.with the forecast. We look ahead to what's bound to be
:16:44. > :16:47.an emotional Wolves-Villa match at of the popular figure
:16:48. > :16:50.who managed both clubs, And somewhere over the rainbow
:16:51. > :16:57.is a piano with a pot of gold in it! It's a sight common
:16:58. > :17:07.across the Midlands, a patch of land strewn with rubbish
:17:08. > :17:10.after an illegal traveller The clear-up cost runs into hundreds
:17:11. > :17:17.of thousands of pounds. But what's the choice
:17:18. > :17:19.for travellers? Bob Hockenhull's been to meet
:17:20. > :17:21.a man who was locked out of his own business
:17:22. > :17:24.when the caravans moved on. After unauthorised travellers took
:17:25. > :17:29.over his industrial site in Tipton last week,
:17:30. > :17:34.he's installing concrete blocks at the entrance
:17:35. > :17:38.to stop it happening again. Steve estimates the intruders
:17:39. > :17:42.cost him ?7,000. He's had to pay for bailiff fees,
:17:43. > :17:45.extra security and clean-up costs as the travellers left piles
:17:46. > :17:50.of rubbish behind. It's disgusting that normal,
:17:51. > :17:58.everyday people going about their everyday life can be
:17:59. > :18:01.faced with something like this overnight and an expense
:18:02. > :18:06.that we shouldn't have to incur. The trespassers were
:18:07. > :18:08.so brazen, they even put It says, "We live in this
:18:09. > :18:13.property, it is our home When they left, the travellers took
:18:14. > :18:21.up residence half a mile away. With the West Midlands
:18:22. > :18:23.dealing with nearly 300 illegal camps a year,
:18:24. > :18:26.the Police and Crime Commissioner He's organised a summit
:18:27. > :18:30.in February to find better ways There has got to be mutual respect
:18:31. > :18:36.between the travellers There is no proper
:18:37. > :18:42.coordinated activity between councils right the way
:18:43. > :18:45.across our region and we need to work more closely with police,
:18:46. > :18:47.local councils, and also to see if the law
:18:48. > :18:52.needs to be changed. Travellers groups will also be
:18:53. > :18:56.invited to the talks. Their representatives
:18:57. > :18:58.say more official sites are needed and will ultimately
:18:59. > :19:00.save the authorities hundreds of thousands of pounds they're
:19:01. > :19:02.currently paying in legal Dan's joined me and,
:19:03. > :19:15.after the shock news about Graham Taylor yesterday,
:19:16. > :19:17.I'd have thought a highly emotional atmosphere ahead of the
:19:18. > :19:28.Wolves-Villa match at Molineux Think you are right. I was at the
:19:29. > :19:30.training ground this morning and many staff are still in shock.
:19:31. > :19:33.Wolves and Aston Villa have revealed their plans to pay tribute
:19:34. > :19:35.to former manager Graham Taylor before tomorrow evening's
:19:36. > :19:38.The 72-year-old's death from a suspected heart attack
:19:39. > :19:42.There will be a minute's applause before kick off and floral tributes
:19:43. > :19:44.will be laid by players past and present.
:19:45. > :19:46.Tributes to Graham Taylor dominate the back pages
:19:47. > :19:49.of today's newspapers, and no wonder.
:19:50. > :19:52.Almost everyone in football seems to have a story about how the former
:19:53. > :19:54.Villa and Wolves boss touched their lives.
:19:55. > :20:01.The flying winger played for Taylor at Villa, Wolves and Watford
:20:02. > :20:03.and was given his England debut by him.
:20:04. > :20:06.Everyone used to call him their dad because he followed them
:20:07. > :20:08.everywhere they went, but it was nice he gave me my
:20:09. > :20:11.international debut, which I'm really, really proud about.
:20:12. > :20:14.It was great a person like that liked me as a player,
:20:15. > :20:17.but again I can equally say he had a massive influence on my
:20:18. > :20:19.career and I'm really, really grateful for that.
:20:20. > :20:23.The current occupant of that post would love to repeat his feat
:20:24. > :20:28.of leading the team to promotion at the first attempt.
:20:29. > :20:31.I think I speak on behalf of us all that we are all shocked,
:20:32. > :20:34.and of course, he worked at this club of ours here twice
:20:35. > :20:38.We've got people here this morning who are devastated by the news.
:20:39. > :20:40.At Molineux they're preparing a special insert for tomorrow's
:20:41. > :20:43.programme to mark the meeting of two clubs so heavily influenced
:20:44. > :20:49.Graham Taylor may not have been manager here very long but everyone
:20:50. > :20:52.in the club says he played a huge part in setting up the modern
:20:53. > :20:56.academy, which has produced so many talented young players for the club.
:20:57. > :21:01.That's what they are telling me, which is testament to his ideas,
:21:02. > :21:05.and speaking to one or two of the staff who were here with him,
:21:06. > :21:08.they think the world of him, so I think it's a really huge
:21:09. > :21:14.After the minute's applause, the first whistle will blow
:21:15. > :21:17.and everyone will be hoping for a match to provide
:21:18. > :21:19.the final fitting tribute to Graham Taylor's memory.
:21:20. > :21:32.and like the rest of football still reeling from news
:21:33. > :21:35.So many stories continuing to surface.
:21:36. > :21:38.Among the best today was Graham being the best man at a Watford
:21:39. > :21:42.The request was made at a book signing.
:21:43. > :21:47.Let's switch to the other side of the world for some tennis,
:21:48. > :21:49.and Birmingham's Dan Evans is really going well.
:21:50. > :21:53.Evans is through to his first ever Tour final.
:21:54. > :21:55.He beat Russia's Andrey Kuznetsov in three sets in the semifinal
:21:56. > :22:05.The final is tomorrow morning and next week it's
:22:06. > :22:10.And back here in the cold - a huge game for Wasps
:22:11. > :22:14.It's a must win game at home to Toulouse tomorrow.
:22:15. > :22:17.They top of the English Premiership and top of pool two
:22:18. > :22:20.But it's tight as they're level on points with
:22:21. > :22:24.So to guarantee a place in the quarterfinals they must win
:22:25. > :22:30.For more than a century, an upright piano stood
:22:31. > :22:33.in the corner of a room, with no-one aware that
:22:34. > :22:40.It wasn't until the piano found a new home in Shropshire
:22:41. > :22:42.and the piano tuner started renovating, that the
:22:43. > :22:47.Lindsay Doyle has been investigating.
:22:48. > :22:55.What has been described as potential treasure,
:22:56. > :22:58.a substantial amount of gold has been discovered in an upright piano
:22:59. > :23:02.A piano which has had several owners, I'm told, over 100 years.
:23:03. > :23:06.This gold was discovered by its new owners who found
:23:07. > :23:17.The piano was tuned and this discovery was made.
:23:18. > :23:22.Beyond the fact that it is gold, we know very little.
:23:23. > :23:27.But the discovery was reported to the finds liaison
:23:28. > :23:29.officer at Ludlow Museum, Peter Revel, who does
:23:30. > :23:32.Peter, can you tell me what this discovery is?
:23:33. > :23:41.As you said, the hoard was found when a piano tuner was repairing
:23:42. > :23:43.and tuning the piano, and uncovered this mass of material
:23:44. > :23:46.and what we are looking today is to try and tell the story
:23:47. > :23:50.of that, or at least find somebody who might know something about it.
:23:51. > :23:52.This could be declared treasure under the Treasure Act, couldn't it?
:23:53. > :23:59.Because it is less than 300 years old, the Coroner has to find,
:24:00. > :24:03.that it is made of gold or silver, that it is deliberately hidden
:24:04. > :24:09.with the intention of recovery, and most importantly that every
:24:10. > :24:12.effort is made to trace the original order or their heirs and if we can't
:24:13. > :24:16.This isn't the first hoard you have come across, is it?
:24:17. > :24:27.This is one of the better cases that we have, which was purchased
:24:28. > :24:28.which was purchased by Ludlow Museum.
:24:29. > :24:30.This is the Bitterley Hoard.
:24:31. > :24:32.The Bitterley Hoard, which is 120 coins, found
:24:33. > :24:36.This was found by a metal detectorist, which is the normal way
:24:37. > :24:40.I don't expect a member of the public to get in touch
:24:41. > :24:45.Well, of course, the most famous hoard ever discovered
:24:46. > :24:47.in the Midlands was the infamous Staffordshire Hoard.
:24:48. > :24:49.That was declared treasure under the Treasure Act.
:24:50. > :24:51.Now just out of interest, to let you know,
:24:52. > :24:53.?3.5 million, almost 3.5 million was raised
:24:54. > :24:55.by the West Midlands to keep it here.
:24:56. > :24:57.That money went to the metal detectorist who found it
:24:58. > :25:02.So just saying to the people who own the piano, just saying.
:25:03. > :25:09.For now, from Ludlow, it's back to Birmingham.
:25:10. > :25:11.I often wondered what happened to that old piano of mine!
:25:12. > :25:14.So time for the weekend weather after a tumultuous 24 hours.
:25:15. > :25:27.We had some golden sunshine today. It is not all bad news but if you
:25:28. > :25:32.are a fan of the snow this might not be what you want to hear. We had
:25:33. > :25:36.some falling snow this morning. In some spots it stayed a pleasant
:25:37. > :25:44.winter wonderland. But a few milestone below -- a few miles down
:25:45. > :25:49.the road, it was just like a crisp January day with grey clouds and a
:25:50. > :25:54.little sunshine. But we have seen clearing skies through today. As a
:25:55. > :26:01.result, we are likely to see temperatures falling, meaning we
:26:02. > :26:06.have another yellow weather warning. Temperatures will start to drop and
:26:07. > :26:11.it is going to be very chilly, sub zero. The warning covers pretty much
:26:12. > :26:17.all of the region. Melting snow, lying snow, on top of that some
:26:18. > :26:22.showers, they will move down from the north, through the Cheshire Gap,
:26:23. > :26:32.quite likely at times, a wintry mix -- lively. Will DH Lee night.
:26:33. > :26:36.Tomorrow starts with showers continuing to move down through the
:26:37. > :26:41.region. Then we will start to see things coming drier and brighter
:26:42. > :26:45.further east. The Welsh will keep cloud on the Welsh border with
:26:46. > :26:52.showers continuing but they are likely to follow as sleet or rain. A
:26:53. > :26:56.change is coming. High pressure is trying to build in from the west. A
:26:57. > :27:01.weather front will move south through the north of the country
:27:02. > :27:05.ringing some rain for Sunday so we will start to see things getting
:27:06. > :27:15.milder as we go through the end of the day tomorrow and overnight,
:27:16. > :27:21.showers first and then rain. It is a return to this for Sunday. Wetter
:27:22. > :27:27.and milder. Back to where we were before the cold snap. A miserable
:27:28. > :27:29.Sunday, quite grey, plenty of rain and the new working week has a great
:27:30. > :27:32.start -- grey. Elizabeth Glinka will be
:27:33. > :27:37.here at 10.25 with your late update. Have a good evening
:27:38. > :27:39.and a wild weekend! Parents are facing an explosion in
:27:40. > :27:56.the number of children saying It was like a battle, like in a war
:27:57. > :28:05.zone. She would literally scream. Although the stories that we tell
:28:06. > :28:10.are fictional, at their core