12/01/2017 Midlands Today


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A yellow weather warning is in force across the West Midlands tonight,

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with the potential of snow in high areas and ice forming on untreated

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Strong winds, after freezing temperatures, will also add

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to the possible hazards facing drivers and commuters

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Our reporter Ben Sidwell is at Stoke-on-Trent for us now.

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As you can see, it is pretty snowy. I'm just outside the city centre

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here. A couple of inches have fallen here. I will tell you more about

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what is happening around in a moment. But I have been looking at

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the first day of winter here in the Midlands.

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The first significant snowfall of winter and it was the A53

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near Leek on the Staffordshire moorlands that felt it worst.

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By mid-afternoon it was spreading further south.

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This the scene on the eastern slopes of the Malvern Hills.

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The fine dusting settled on the Lickey hills south

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of Birmingham, no dramas, but still quite exciting for some.

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Well, there is only a bit of it, but it's really nice.

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It's the first time she has seen snow, so we brought to have a look!

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No rest for the gritters as attention switches

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The concern now is ice on untreated roads during tomorrow

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Watching all this with more than a passing interest,

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a self-styled entrepeteur and inventor.

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In the back garden of his home in Kempsey near Worcester,

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he designed and built a sledge come skiboard, he calls the Axi-ski.

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It was intended as a one-off for his daughters but has gone

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into commerical production and sold 27,000 over ths past five years,

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It only needs a little bit of snow and it looks like he's got his wish.

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We have waited six years for this moment and finally,

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the Axi-ski is going to see some action in the UK and I'm so excited

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and I know an awful lot of customers of mine are also excited.

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In the end, for the rest of us, this much anticipated weather event

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But with snow still forecast overnight, it could be a very

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different picture in some parts of the Midlands when we wake

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Many places in Staffordshire have got a scene like this. I was

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travelling up the M6. Conditions are very difficult and gritters are out

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across the West Midlands. John Fraser from Worcestershire County

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Council told me that they are more worried about the ice and the snow.

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That may well turn back to rain and wash away the salt

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So we need to keep a very close eye and make sure we are out

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and about putting some more salt down because we expect

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The snow is falling again. If you don't need to come out and drive,

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don't because we have seen a number of cars slipping and sliding

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already. It is very icy out here. There will be problems in the

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morning, maybe even some school closures. The best thing to do to

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get the information is to tune into your local BBC radio station. Ben,

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thank you very much. Tributes have been pouring

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in to the kindness and talent of the former Aston Villa,

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Wolves and England football Every club in the Football League

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will hold a minute's applause before this weekend's fixtures,

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after it was announced today that the 72-year-old

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had died suddenly from Just a warning - Nick Clitheroe's

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report contains flash photography. The playing side, and are not just

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talking about on the field, I'm talking about it completely,

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it's a shambles. What's the point of

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saying anything else? Graham Taylor always told it

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straight, but he got results too. Within nine months of his arrival

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at newly relegated Aston Villa in 1987, he led them to promotion

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back to the top flight. With a combination of outstanding

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signings and brilliant coaching, he then took Villa agonisingly close

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to winning the league title, before being snapped

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up by England in 1990. I should never have let him go,

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really, but they wanted He was one of the few that

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I got on very well with. A well-educated man, articulate,

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and always had a smile on his face. I think the key thing

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with Graham is, and anybody that worked with him,

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the staff at the football clubs, He treated the tea lady,

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the man on the door, the same way as he would treat

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his multi-million-pound striker. In 1994, Taylor returned to club

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football with Wolves. There were only a handful

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of clubs who I would have come back into football

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for and Wolverhampton Wanderers In his one full season at Molineux

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they made it to the promotion playoffs but that was as good

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as it got. Behind the scenes, though,

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Taylor's role was critical in sowing Graham was very instrumental

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in how our academy and youth structure looks today and the plans

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that were implemented at that time have meant that we have gone

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on to have a strong academy structure, that is largely due

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to the work Graham did in the 1990s. Wolves have lowered the flag over

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Molineux to half mast and are preparing a special

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programme for Saturday's Championship match,

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which appropriately is against Both sets of fans will get

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the chance to say goodbye to one of the region's best-loved and most

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influential football managers. And thank you to all of you who've

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been adding your own tributes to Graham Taylor on our Facebook

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page at facebook.com/midlandstoday. 44 people have been made redundant

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and more than 100 other jobs are still at risk,

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after the Redditch firm AMS went AMS, which installs shop interiors,

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was founded in 1919. But the administrators KPMG say

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the company has faced significant challenges in recent times,

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because of increasing competition, and the general pressures

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within the retail sector. A pilot scheme to help ease

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tensions between students at Coventry University and local

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residents is being rolled Student Wardens have been carrying

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out patrols since January last year, It follows complaints

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about litter and noise nuisance It's thought the university's 30,000

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students add ?100 million A charity in Leamington Spa

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is appealing for people to donate their winter fuel

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allowance, if they can afford it, to help the town's homeless -

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and those struggling For the past six years, the Heart

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of England Community Foundation has been supporting projects

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like Helping Hands. It helped Kenny Crawford get a job

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and move off the streets - he's now one of the charity's

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volunteers. I was at the bottom of the ladder

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and I thought there was no way out. But I can't imagine

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what it is like for people worse off than me that aren't able to work

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and have other addictions and things Warwickshire Wildlife Trust

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is hoping to set up four new primary schools,

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which would put nature The idea behind the Nature Schools

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is that as much learning as possible And as our Environment

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Correspondent David Gregory Kumar reports, the first one could be open

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in the Midlands as Brandon Marsh nature

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reserve near Coventry, home to some excited woodland

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creatures, getting Brandon Marsh is also headquarters

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for Warwickshire Wildlife Trust. And it's the trust that is

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leading plans for nature Some of these children could be

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amongst the very first pupils. Children at our schools will still

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have to learn their times tables, learn to read and write,

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but we are preparing an educational philosophy that will allow teachers

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to achieve that learning outside, using the natural setting

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as much as the classroom. Initially four nature-based primary

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schools are planned, with two in the Midlands -

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one in Smethwick, and the other one, Warwickshire Wildlife Trust,

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which has been identified as possibly going into

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Camp Hill in Nuneaton. They have already got their eyes

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on a site and indeed a building. It's definitely an urban

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area but it's the area that was identified by local

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authorities as with greatest need for a new school

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and we are going to make the most of any outdoor space there is there

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and create new outdoor spaces A garden, an allotment,

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wildlife areas. Parents visiting the reserve

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today were excited. Some have already looked

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into applying to the new school. She loves being outdoors

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and we would like that The outside is an amazing place

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to learn and I think you can have so many experiences that are not

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traditional education that still give you the same knowledge

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that you would have in a classroom, If all goes very well the UK's first

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nature school could open Fancy becoming an otter

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spotter in Birmingham? The Canal and River Trust charity

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is recruiting volunteers to help it build up a picture

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of where the animals Numbers are on the rise again

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after efforts to improve the quality Let's find out how low

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the temperatures are due to fall, I'll leave you with the forecast

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from Rebecca Wood. It certainly has been

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a wintry day today. There has been a wintry flavour

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to some showers particularly across North Staffordshire

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where we did see some snow. As we head through the night,

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a change is on the way, The wind direction is turning

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to a northerly and it is bringing down much colder air

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and through the morning that could give us some

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lively snow showers. We have a Met Office yellow

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weather warning for ice. That is because where we have seen

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all that rain and snow through the day today,

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with those temperatures falling away, there is a risk

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of plenty of icy stretches So, overnight tonight,

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widespread frost. As we start tomorrow,

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there is a risk of treacherous Do stay tuned to your BBC local

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radio station through the morning. Still wintry showers around

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for the morning rush hour. They will clear away

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and we will be left with something There will be very

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cold temperatures. The wind chill making it

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feel more like minus 2C. More information in

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the National forecast. I will leave you with the outlook

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for the next two days. note. If that's not your sort of

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thing, Sunday will be cloudier and milder.

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Good evening. It was such a mild December, wasn't

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