Rebecca Wood
BBC Midlands Today

Here's a look ahead to what's in store for you this weekend on the weather front.

You can also find latest forecasts on the BBC Weather website.

Chris King
Reporter, BBC Radio Stoke

Fellow Stoke-on-Trent Labour MP Rob Flello's paid tribute to Tristram Hunt, who's announced he's quitting as an MP for the city.

Mr Hunt is off to become the director of London's Victoria and Albert Museum, triggering a by-election.

Mr Flello tweeted thanks to his colleague for "everything he's done for our great city".

And the third Labour MP for Stoke-on-Trent, Ruth Smeeth, also paid tribute , externalsaying Mr Hunt "leaves behind a track record of delivering for Stoke-on-Trent".

Nick Owen
Presenter, BBC Midlands Today

On Midlands Today this evening, we'll hear the impact of snow in the region, after more than 100 schools were closed across Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire today. 

Image source, Mark s

We'll also have more reaction to the news that there's going to be a by-election in Stoke-on-Trent, after MP Tristram Hunt resigned to become the director of a museum in London.

Both those stories from more from 18:30 on BBC One.

Express and Star

NHS bosses have ruled a full blown maternity service should not be brought back to Stafford's County Hospital , externaldue to safety fears.

Image source, Express and Star

Have you ever dreamt of walking out on to the pitch at Wembley or lifting a cup in front of 90,000 fans?

The 2017 FA People's Cup - the UK's biggest free five-a-side football competition - is offering the chance to do just that.

Find out about the 16 different categories and dates of the competition here - then find out where your nearest venue is and how to sign up here., external

Gavin Bevis
BBC Local Live

A new date for your diary, football fans - the Derby County v Burton Albion match at Pride Park Stadium has been put back to Tuesday 21 February, external.

The teams were due to meet on Saturday 28 January but that's no longer possible due to the Rams selfishly failing to get knocked out of the FA Cup.

Allen Cook
BBC Local Live

Drivers are being warned that there could be more snow flurries through tonight and into tomorrow morning. , external

Stoke-on-Trent City Council says it isn't expecting large amounts of it to settle but will be gritting from 18:00 into the night. 

Meanwhile, the Midlands Air Ambulance have tweeted this picture of a snowy Staffordshire today, external.

Image source, Midlands Air Ambulance

Tim Wedgwood
BBC Local Live

Three wards have been closed at Crewe's Leighton Hospital, external due to a flu outbreak. 

The Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which manages the hospital, says it's taken the step to reduce the risk of it spreading after a "small number" of cases. 

The trust says people should not to go to the hospital if they have flu or have recently been in contact with somebody with it, unless it's an emergency.

Graham McGarry
Crewe Alexandra commentator, BBC Radio Stoke

The new Crewe Alexandra manager David Artell says he's as "ready as he's going to be" for his first game in charge, at home to Luton tomorrow. 

Speaking to me for BBC Radio Stoke, he admits it may be obvious but his side desperately need to score more goals - and concede fewer.  

Lee Thomas
Newsreader, BBC Radio Stoke

A baby's been born in a police car outside the Royal Stoke University Hospital after a couple's car broke down on the way to the maternity unit this morning., external

Staffordshire Police say their officers were called out and took Emily McBride and her partner Thomas Carson to the hospital in the back of their police car.

They say medical staff were alerted but Emily didn't make it out of the vehicle and her baby was delivered on the back seat. 

The force says the new arrival, Darcey Carson, and her mum are both doing well - while their officers "needed a cup of tea".

Lee Thomas
Newsreader, BBC Radio Stoke

Our top stories include:

- The Stoke-on-Trent Central MP Tristram Hunt's denied that Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is the reason he's leaving politics

- It would not be possible to safely return full maternity services to Stafford's County Hospital, a review has concluded

- A baby's been born in a police car outside the Royal Stoke University Hospital after a couple's car broke down on the way to the maternity unit this morning, external

Lee Blakeman
Port Vale commentator, BBC Radio Stoke

Port Vale say there'll be a pitch inspection tomorrow morning, ahead of their game against Milton Keynes Dons. 

Chris King
Reporter, BBC Radio Stoke

Labour MP Tristram Hunt, who's announced today he's quitting as an MP, first won the Stoke-on-Trent seat in 2010. 

At the time he was best known as a television historian and one politics expert said Labour was "parachuting in" a candidate. 

He won again comfortably for Labour in 2015 when the seat was the only one in that general election where the majority of the electorate did not vote (49.9% did so). 

Among his proudest achievements in the seat was being part of the national campaign that saved the Wedgwood Museum collection from being sold off. 

Mr Hunt also held high profile position for Labour, becoming a Shadow Education Minister in 2013 and Shadow Secretary of State for Education later that year. 

However he decided not to serve under Jeremy Corbyn when he was elected party leader and was part of a vote of no confidence in his leadership., external

Labour faces another by-election as the former shadow education secretary announces he is to resign.

BBC Weather Watchers

Image source, Altonbirdwatch

Our BBC Weather Watchers look to have been uploading some stunning pictures from across a snowy Staffordshire and Cheshire today.

User Altonbirdwatch snapped this snow-covered sheep in Alton, and Oldwindey in Hednesford looks to have built a snowman

Image source, Oldwindey

Allen Cook
BBC Local Live

Problems with safe levels of recruitment and financial issues are two of the key reasons maternity services can't return to Stafford's County Hospital, a review has concluded.

In 2015, consultant-led services moved from the site to the Royal Stoke hospital and a review of that decision by NHS England was launched last year. 

Now it has concluded it would not be possible to safely bring them back, citing safe levels of staffing as the "single most difficult challenge" to reinstating them. 

The review adds that it would also be "financially unviable". 

The University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust, which runs both hospitals, says it acknowledges the report's findings and will look to "work with commissioners to review the recommendations".

Stuart George
Presenter, BBC Radio Stoke

The Stoke-on-Trent Central MP Tristram Hunt's denied that Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is the reason he's leaving politics. 

The party's former education spokesman is resigning as a city MP to become director of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

He quit the shadow cabinet when Jeremy Corbyn became leader of the party

Tim Wedgwood
BBC Local Live

A raccoon dog, which was caught in a trap in Derbyshire,, external will make a full recovery, RSPCA vets in Cheshire say.  

They're looking after the wild animal at their Stapeley Grange centre near Nantwich after someone found her in the trap in Glossop. 

The trap was removed under sedation in Manchester before the raccoon dog was taken to the Cheshire centre. 

Stapeley Grange Manager Lee Stewart told me for BBC Radio Stoke that the animal hadn't suffered any broken bones and "will make a full recovery".  

BBC Politics

Stoke-on-Trent Central's Tristram Hunt is the second Labour MP in a matter of weeks to quit Parliament for a job outside politics.

Jamie Reed announced last month he was standing down as MP for Copeland to take up a post at the Sellafield nuclear plant. 

Mr Hunt's departure sets up another potentially awkward by-election for Mr Corbyn, in a traditionally safe Labour seat where UKIP made a strong showing in the last general election. 

Tony Blair's former communications chief, Alastair Campbell, wrote on Twitter: "Big loss. So many MPs fear Labour going nowhere under Jeremy Corbyn".

Conservative former chancellor and Tatton MP George Osborne commented: "@TristramHuntMP is a brilliant, bold choice by @V_and_A. I suspect it'll be a while before we see another Labour MP called Tristram."

A blast of freezing weather is sweeping across much of the UK, bringing disruption as commuters try to get home.

Here's what some parts of the West Midlands looked like this morning...