nina warhurst has been visiting companies in staffordshire, where voters overwhelmingly backed brexitacturers, the service industries and the trades men and women, the brexit count down is on. a drop in the pound has brought a big boost for export sales in hixon. two thirds of electrics they build and the metal they shape go abroad. but that could change. this piece of machinery puts all the safety edges on and the folds very consistently very quickly. do they stay mainly in the uk? yes, absolutely. talk of tariffs means they're building their british client—base and mass production for the eurozone will be made in romania. fewer borders means more predictable profits. those changes, are they as a result of brexit directly? no, i wouldn't say directly. we have been sort of doing this anyway. what this has allowed us to do with the uncertainty of brexit is focus our mind a bit more in transferring goods. so brexit has made you think in a different way would you say? absolutely. staffordshire is a county with a rich industrial heritage and you look to the future and the chamber of comme

is because three generations back, his great grandfather immigrated from the united kingdom and staffordshire county here to virginia, a little south of us. he came with enough property and enough people to get rights to land. he continued to build the property up northward to where we are here on mason's neck. over the course of his lifetime, he did gain much more property, and his son gained much more property as well. although a continuing through our george mason's father, also george, purchased some of the land that ultimately became the property here at gunston hall. george mason, the gentleman portrayed in the portrait behind me, consolidated all of that land and built this house here between 1755 and 1759. that is what allowed him to be part of this grouping in society. with that background, he then becomes part of the conversation about the constitution and politics in virginia and subsequently america. this is the space in his home where he would have been having those conversations with other people. the parlor we saw, the space he used as his office, was where he thought about tha

a lot of standing water in staffordshire and more to come through the afternoon. through the weekend. here is the rain slowly clearing from northern ireland is but moving into northern england. windy here, when zigzagging down the east cowes. behind the rain, sunshine and showers, some on the heavy side. mild in the south, feeling cold given the strength of the winds. windy, outbreaks of rain, in parts of northern england and scotland. meanwhile in the south, a band of rain pushing through southern counties of england and wales. temperatures around three celsius, colder air from scotland bringing colder air from scotland bringing colder conditions and also snow. over higher grounds and perhaps lead to lower levels as well. sunshine and showers and other day, showers possibly thundery. hanging on to milder conditions here, but colder conditions in the north and with the wind will feel colder still. into the weekends, and easterly winds picking up, dragging cold air across the uk. not as cold as earlier in the uk. not as cold as earlier in the month, but a sharp dro

rachel rose has sent in this photo of biddulph moor in staffordshire.yshire. keep those pictures coming in. if you get a chance to take a picture, please send them. online, but on the move. so can our mobile network cope? ben has more. how often do you make calls these days? social networks or the internet? to watch a film in high definition. gigabytes a month by 2025. mike fairman is the boss and he‘s with me now. good morning. placing all sorts of pressure on the network. why such a change in demand. demand. if you look at our growth, we are seeing 45% year—on—year. we are seeing 45% year—on—year. thing that is driving it is video consumption. consumption. listening to music and streaming music is more popular. music is more popular. streaming things on the move has really changed. really changed. ordinarily, we would download it before we went out? download it before we went out? is right, and that has changed completely. completely. millions of tracks and you download and stream on the move. and stream on the move. it hard to download one song, neve

because what we saw under the labour government in mid staffordshire.g for the nhs, and we are providing a record levels of funding, is to ensure we take a balanced approach to our economy. an approach that deals with our debts, keep taxes low and working families and birds more money enter our public services like hospitals and schools. labour's approach would increase debts, mean less money for our schools and hospitals and higher taxes orjerry, working people. because what we know about the labour party is that it is these are ordinary people who pay the price of labour. last week's launch of a consultation on domestic violence will be widely welcomed in gloucester and across the country. so were the prime minister, who has done so much on these issues, confirmed today that the government intends to increase spending, bed provision, and when necessary, women's refuge, so those who have survived get the help and save haven they deserve? my honourable friend has risen important issue, one which i have not only given considerable attention to, but the h

look at this photo from staffordshire. the icicles are coming down from the vegetation.ut widely up falling in south wales, but widely up in scotland, 45 centimetres across parts of lincolnshire as well. that easterly wind remains with us, bringing cold conditions, but look at this blob of the score here, milder here and that is associated with storm mr. we have less cold for the weekend but this weather front is going to bring further outbreaks of snow across the south—west of england and wales. we are looking at two to five centimetres, perhaps more over higher ground, fresh snow adulation is moving northward. showers across the north—east but cold, maximum temperature is barely above freezing but with the strong wind, particularly for wales on the east coast, it will feel colder than that, it could reach minus nine celsius. this evening the snow will move northwards, southern parts of northern england will be affected. by that stage it should begin to ease off, so we could be looking at the covering of snow but the eyes will be a big risk going into tomorrow morning.

since then a bit of cloud has bubbled up, for example in staffordshi re bubbled up, for example in staffordshiret further west we have this thick at atlantic cloud moving in, associated with a weather front that is going to bring a spell of wet weather. first to northern ireland but we will all see a spell of rain some point in the night—time ahead. that is coming our way. for the remainder of the afternoon things look fine with plenty of sunshine and the winds for the most part light, the cloud continues to dissipate and we will see increasing sunshine coming through, but it will feel pleasant out and about with temperatures between ten and 13 degrees. the exception to that is shetland where we have air coming from a chilly scandinavia that is why temperatures are only 6 degrees with the threat of passing showers. 0vernight tonight with clear skies across north and east scotland we could get pockets of frost in the countryside but ultimately we are going to see this weather systems move in bringing cloudier skies and outbreaks of rain and as the audi rides the breeze will freshen and temperatur

isles where it was wet and windy for much of the day. much of the day. afternoon across staffordshireand overnight temperatures likely to fall away alt. likely to fall away alt. even some freezing fog patches further north and east. further north and east. story to the south—west, staying milder here. milder here. hovering around freezing orjust below in places. below in places. batch of wet weather begins to push on. on. midlands and south east and some of that quite heavy. that quite heavy. scattered showers across the north and east. quite cold atjust 5 degrees. degrees. further south values of minor ten. minor ten. the south—west and the frontal system spiralling around that. system spiralling around that. always the risk of some showers, coming in from the north sea coast. coming in from the north sea coast. further south more longer spells of rain, some about heavy. rain, some about heavy. feeling very warm for good friday at five, 9 degrees. five, 9 degrees. it looks as though the unsettled theme is set to continue. theme is set to continue. cool with some sunny spells of your