Can you help me identify this shrub/plant/tree??!

[parachutes]

I've uploaded two pics to my profile page of a bush/plant/shrub/tree that's growing nearby and would be very grateful if someone could help me identify it.
It's about 6ft tall with a thick tree-like root (am sure I'm using all the wrong words!) and as you've probably already guessed I know nothing about anything gardening-related but I am trying to learn
A smaller version is growing in another spot.

Could I take a cutting from it? How?

I thank you!

It looks like a Viburnum parachutes.

Do the flowers smell nice? If so I think it may be a Viburnum Bodnantense
www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/plants/plant_finder/plant_pages/971.shtml

Can't see properly as on iPod but first reaction is that the flowers look like my weigelia.

Hi everyone, thanks very much for answering. Yes, they smell lovely but quite distinctive, I can't really describe the smell.
I'm going to go and have a look online at the suggestions!

Pannacotta, I think you're right, thank you very much (and thanks to everyone that responded)!
Now, any advice on how to take a cutting if such a thing is possible?

On the link I posted it says to take cuttings in summer, more than that I don't know, sorry.
Why not borrow a practical gardening book from your local library?

Thanks Pannacotta, I'm still reading that website and also the RHS site: both are brilliant.
Thanks for your help.

Bit of info on cuttings here
www.pfaf.org/database/plants.php?Viburnum+x+bodnantense

Parachutes.. sorry but I don't think it's a viburnum, the leaf is the wrong shape. I think it's a ribes sanguineum
HTH's.

If it's decidious (it should be ), you take hardwood cuttings in winter.

Ingles2 I think you're right as the leaves are exactly the same. Thanks for that.
Thanks also for the link pannacotta.

It's a common currant, really easy to grow. They need sun and quite well drained soil

i agree, the flower look like a viburnum and V Bodnatese here woudl have been flowering over the winter. it smells wonderful, a sweet smell like honey

If its just come into flower over the past few weesk i think its more likely to be a flowering currant, as ingles says. they have a distinctive smell, which some people like but i think is like cat pee

I agree that if its Ribes it definately smells like cat pee!
When did it start flowering?

Looking again the Ribes the leaves do look like that rather than Viburnum.

Oh my goodness, have just seen the picture on proper computer and after caffeine, very sorry for my earlier suggestion !

I knew it looked familiar in a blurry kind of way, I have a currant in the front garden so now makes more sense. They do spread a fair bit, I've found them popping up all over the place. If that is what it is, then have a look round your garden and you may well find a little one somewhere, I found one about 40 feet from the main bush the other day. I think they are seeded by the birds.