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Phil Trow

All the latest news, travel, weather and sport with Phil.

Phil started his radio career in the Midlands in 1986 and has since worked with everyone from Robbie Williams to Emily Bishop! 

However, for his first foray into the world of breakfast on BBC Radio Derby, he was renamed Phil Snow as he sat in during the bad weather in the early part of 2010.

Phil achieved a number one single in Staffordshire, the 'Telethon Rap'. He was also served his tea by Robbie - when the pop superstar in waiting was on work experience at his radio station! 

He joined BBC Radio Manchester in 1990 (when it was BBC GMR) where he interviewed his most daunting guest to date - Margaret Thatcher. 

He also carelessly lost the Lord Mayor down the back of a massive inflatable frog! He was part of the team that won a Sony Radio award for coverage of the IRA bomb attack in Manchester. The explosion happened while Phil was on-air. 

He was also a regular presenter on the BBC North West Children in Need TV show. 

Phil diversified in the 90's and became the 'warm-up' man for Children's BBC, working on programmes like 'Live and Kicking' and 'Get your own back' - he says he still has the gunge stains. 

He has also pruned roses with Alan Titchmarsh and made lasagne with Gordon Ramsay. 

Phil has tried his hand at acting, appearing in Coronation Street and in panto. He even played 'Gary Lineker' in the stage play 'An evening with ...'. 

He joined BBC Radio Lancashire in 2004 and last year headed back to the Midlands to present various programmes for BBC Radio Derby.

Phil Trow's Breakfast Show: Darley Abbey tolls and East Midlands Today is 20

Darley Abbey tolls and East Midlands Today is 20

BBC Radio Derby - Phil Trow's Breakfast Show, Darley Abbey tolls and East Midlands Today is 20

Changes in the lives of residents in Darley Abbey and East Midlands today is 20 years old.

7.08am: A Darley Abbey resident says life's got better thanks to a dramatic drop in traffic through the village because drivers have to pay a charge.

7.15am: The two ringleaders of Derbyshire's  largest ever sex abuse case are due to be sentenced.

7.37am: We meet the man who gave up new technology for a week for us!

7.44am: A pet sitting service, a swimming school and even a soap maker  - why  more women in Derbyshire and East Staffordshire are starting new businesses

7.53am: We'll hear about the Derbyshire woman who is taking on an Arctic running race that no other British woman has completed.

8.08am: The Derbyshire paramedic who is being honoured after saving lives in a plane crash while he was on holiday.

8.15am: We'll speak to a Derby woman who had swine flu along with 7 members of her family.

8.37am: What effect the closure of an East Staffordshire hotel will have on jobs in the area

8.44am: We cross to Australia for news of the Ashes. 

8.53am:  East Midlands Today marks its twentieth birthday, we speak to the woman who presented the first progarmme.

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