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A yellow weather warning is in force across the West Midlands tonight, | :00:07. | :00:11. | |
with the potential of snow in high areas and ice forming on untreated | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
Strong winds, after freezing temperatures, will also add | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
to the possible hazards facing drivers and commuters | :00:19. | :00:20. | |
Our reporter Ben Sidwell is at Stoke-on-Trent for us now. | :00:21. | :00:28. | |
As you can see, it is pretty snowy. I'm just outside the city centre | :00:29. | :00:43. | |
here. A couple of inches have fallen here. I will tell you more about | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
what is happening around in a moment. But I have been looking at | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
the first day of winter here in the Midlands. | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
The first significant snowfall of winter and it was the A53 | :00:55. | :00:56. | |
near Leek on the Staffordshire moorlands that felt it worst. | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
By mid-afternoon it was spreading further south. | :01:00. | :01:00. | |
This the scene on the eastern slopes of the Malvern Hills. | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
The fine dusting settled on the Lickey hills south | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
of Birmingham, no dramas, but still quite exciting for some. | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
Well, there is only a bit of it, but it's really nice. | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
It's the first time she has seen snow, so we brought to have a look! | :01:15. | :01:20. | |
No rest for the gritters as attention switches | :01:21. | :01:22. | |
The concern now is ice on untreated roads during tomorrow | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
Watching all this with more than a passing interest, | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
a self-styled entrepeteur and inventor. | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
In the back garden of his home in Kempsey near Worcester, | :01:37. | :01:38. | |
he designed and built a sledge come skiboard, he calls the Axi-ski. | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
It was intended as a one-off for his daughters but has gone | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
into commerical production and sold 27,000 over ths past five years, | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
It only needs a little bit of snow and it looks like he's got his wish. | :01:51. | :01:58. | |
We have waited six years for this moment and finally, | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
the Axi-ski is going to see some action in the UK and I'm so excited | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
and I know an awful lot of customers of mine are also excited. | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
In the end, for the rest of us, this much anticipated weather event | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
But with snow still forecast overnight, it could be a very | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
different picture in some parts of the Midlands when we wake | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
Many places in Staffordshire have got a scene like this. I was | :02:25. | :02:40. | |
travelling up the M6. Conditions are very difficult and gritters are out | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
across the West Midlands. John Fraser from Worcestershire County | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
Council told me that they are more worried about the ice and the snow. | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
That may well turn back to rain and wash away the salt | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
So we need to keep a very close eye and make sure we are out | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
and about putting some more salt down because we expect | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
The snow is falling again. If you don't need to come out and drive, | :03:03. | :03:14. | |
don't because we have seen a number of cars slipping and sliding | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
already. It is very icy out here. There will be problems in the | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
morning, maybe even some school closures. The best thing to do to | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
get the information is to tune into your local BBC radio station. Ben, | :03:29. | :03:30. | |
thank you very much. Tributes have been pouring | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
in to the kindness and talent of the former Aston Villa, | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
Wolves and England football Every club in the Football League | :03:37. | :03:38. | |
will hold a minute's applause before this weekend's fixtures, | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
after it was announced today that the 72-year-old | :03:43. | :03:44. | |
had died suddenly from Just a warning - Nick Clitheroe's | :03:45. | :03:45. | |
report contains flash photography. The playing side, and are not just | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
talking about on the field, I'm talking about it completely, | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
it's a shambles. What's the point of | :03:55. | :03:56. | |
saying anything else? Graham Taylor always told it | :03:57. | :03:58. | |
straight, but he got results too. Within nine months of his arrival | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
at newly relegated Aston Villa in 1987, he led them to promotion | :04:03. | :04:04. | |
back to the top flight. With a combination of outstanding | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
signings and brilliant coaching, he then took Villa agonisingly close | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
to winning the league title, before being snapped | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
up by England in 1990. I should never have let him go, | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
really, but they wanted He was one of the few that | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
I got on very well with. A well-educated man, articulate, | :04:23. | :04:31. | |
and always had a smile on his face. I think the key thing | :04:32. | :04:38. | |
with Graham is, and anybody that worked with him, | :04:39. | :04:40. | |
the staff at the football clubs, He treated the tea lady, | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
the man on the door, the same way as he would treat | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
his multi-million-pound striker. In 1994, Taylor returned to club | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
football with Wolves. There were only a handful | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
of clubs who I would have come back into football | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
for and Wolverhampton Wanderers In his one full season at Molineux | :05:01. | :05:02. | |
they made it to the promotion playoffs but that was as good | :05:03. | :05:09. | |
as it got. Behind the scenes, though, | :05:10. | :05:11. | |
Taylor's role was critical in sowing Graham was very instrumental | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
in how our academy and youth structure looks today and the plans | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
that were implemented at that time have meant that we have gone | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
on to have a strong academy structure, that is largely due | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
to the work Graham did in the 1990s. Wolves have lowered the flag over | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
Molineux to half mast and are preparing a special | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
programme for Saturday's Championship match, | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
which appropriately is against Both sets of fans will get | :05:38. | :05:39. | |
the chance to say goodbye to one of the region's best-loved and most | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
influential football managers. And thank you to all of you who've | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
been adding your own tributes to Graham Taylor on our Facebook | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
page at facebook.com/midlandstoday. 44 people have been made redundant | :05:54. | :06:00. | |
and more than 100 other jobs are still at risk, | :06:01. | :06:02. | |
after the Redditch firm AMS went AMS, which installs shop interiors, | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
was founded in 1919. But the administrators KPMG say | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
the company has faced significant challenges in recent times, | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
because of increasing competition, and the general pressures | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
within the retail sector. A pilot scheme to help ease | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
tensions between students at Coventry University and local | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
residents is being rolled Student Wardens have been carrying | :06:26. | :06:27. | |
out patrols since January last year, It follows complaints | :06:28. | :06:35. | |
about litter and noise nuisance It's thought the university's 30,000 | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
students add ?100 million A charity in Leamington Spa | :06:39. | :06:49. | |
is appealing for people to donate their winter fuel | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
allowance, if they can afford it, to help the town's homeless - | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
and those struggling For the past six years, the Heart | :06:58. | :06:59. | |
of England Community Foundation has been supporting projects | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
like Helping Hands. It helped Kenny Crawford get a job | :07:05. | :07:06. | |
and move off the streets - he's now one of the charity's | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
volunteers. I was at the bottom of the ladder | :07:10. | :07:10. | |
and I thought there was no way out. But I can't imagine | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
what it is like for people worse off than me that aren't able to work | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
and have other addictions and things Warwickshire Wildlife Trust | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
is hoping to set up four new primary schools, | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
which would put nature The idea behind the Nature Schools | :07:30. | :07:30. | |
is that as much learning as possible And as our Environment | :07:31. | :07:39. | |
Correspondent David Gregory Kumar reports, the first one could be open | :07:40. | :07:50. | |
in the Midlands as Brandon Marsh nature | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
reserve near Coventry, home to some excited woodland | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
creatures, getting Brandon Marsh is also headquarters | :07:57. | :07:58. | |
for Warwickshire Wildlife Trust. And it's the trust that is | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
leading plans for nature Some of these children could be | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
amongst the very first pupils. Children at our schools will still | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
have to learn their times tables, learn to read and write, | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
but we are preparing an educational philosophy that will allow teachers | :08:13. | :08:14. | |
to achieve that learning outside, using the natural setting | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
as much as the classroom. Initially four nature-based primary | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
schools are planned, with two in the Midlands - | :08:23. | :08:24. | |
one in Smethwick, and the other one, Warwickshire Wildlife Trust, | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
which has been identified as possibly going into | :08:29. | :08:30. | |
Camp Hill in Nuneaton. They have already got their eyes | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
on a site and indeed a building. It's definitely an urban | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
area but it's the area that was identified by local | :08:38. | :08:39. | |
authorities as with greatest need for a new school | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
and we are going to make the most of any outdoor space there is there | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
and create new outdoor spaces A garden, an allotment, | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
wildlife areas. Parents visiting the reserve | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
today were excited. Some have already looked | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
into applying to the new school. She loves being outdoors | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
and we would like that The outside is an amazing place | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
to learn and I think you can have so many experiences that are not | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
traditional education that still give you the same knowledge | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
that you would have in a classroom, If all goes very well the UK's first | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
nature school could open Fancy becoming an otter | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
spotter in Birmingham? The Canal and River Trust charity | :09:21. | :09:32. | |
is recruiting volunteers to help it build up a picture | :09:33. | :09:34. | |
of where the animals Numbers are on the rise again | :09:35. | :09:36. | |
after efforts to improve the quality Let's find out how low | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
the temperatures are due to fall, I'll leave you with the forecast | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
from Rebecca Wood. It certainly has been | :09:47. | :09:48. | |
a wintry day today. There has been a wintry flavour | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
to some showers particularly across North Staffordshire | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
where we did see some snow. As we head through the night, | :09:57. | :09:58. | |
a change is on the way, The wind direction is turning | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
to a northerly and it is bringing down much colder air | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
and through the morning that could give us some | :10:06. | :10:07. | |
lively snow showers. We have a Met Office yellow | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
weather warning for ice. That is because where we have seen | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
all that rain and snow through the day today, | :10:15. | :10:16. | |
with those temperatures falling away, there is a risk | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
of plenty of icy stretches So, overnight tonight, | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
widespread frost. As we start tomorrow, | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
there is a risk of treacherous Do stay tuned to your BBC local | :10:27. | :10:36. | |
radio station through the morning. Still wintry showers around | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
for the morning rush hour. They will clear away | :10:43. | :10:44. | |
and we will be left with something There will be very | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
cold temperatures. The wind chill making it | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
feel more like minus 2C. More information in | :10:54. | :10:55. | |
the National forecast. I will leave you with the outlook | :10:56. | :10:58. | |
for the next two days. note. If that's not your sort of | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
thing, Sunday will be cloudier and milder. | :11:04. | :11:11. | |
Good evening. It was such a mild December, wasn't | :11:12. | :11:12. |