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