06/03/2014 East Midlands Today

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And now the news for the East Midlands, I'm Dominic Heale. Good

evening. First tonight, a woman accused of causing the deaths of two

toddlers by careless driving has spoken of the moments immedhately

after the fatal collision. Sharmila Mistry told Leicester Crown Court

her car filled with smoke and she thought it was going to explode Her

BMW had been hit by another vehicle which forced it towards the

pushchairs the children werd sitting in. Eleanor Garnier reports. This is

the scene tonight during rush`hour. The crash was just before 10am on a

Monday morning in the summer of 2012, it left the scene of

devastation. She had been driving down this road, talking on `

hands`free device, something she had done for the past 12 years because

her job involved hundreds of miles of driving. She accepts she was

doing 36 miles an hour in a 30 zone. When she got to this junction she

drove through an amber light and was hit by another vehicle on the right,

that driver had gone through a red light. When empowered, the whole car

jolted. She said she jolted comic she was not going straight `ny

more, it she froze, her hands were on the steaming peel but shd could

not control anything. She ddscribed how smoke from the bags was filling

her BMW. She thought the car was going to explode. Her car mounted

this pedestrian island knocking the pushchairs of two children, both

died of head injuries. The prosecution alleges the driver was

distracted by her phone call and because she was over the spded

limit, it minimised her chances of avoiding a collision. She ddnies two

counts of death by dangerous driving. The trial continues. Next,

the research which may help stroke victims lead a better life. Experts

at the University of Nottingham say disabilities caused by the lost

common type of stroke could be cut by a third if the body's telperature

is reduced after a seizure. So we have had a cardiac arrest and they

are worried her rain has suffered it appealable damage so they are

killing it. The sooner the rain is cooled, the slow or rain cells will

die and the less rain damagd she will suffer. It is all a race

against time and it will be when the same principle is tried out on

stroke patients in the UK as well. If we start with rolling thhs

patient towards me. Nurses `nd doctors from five UK hospit`ls are

being taught how to cool stroke patients. You can take them

completely off. Water fills these cooling pads to bring the body

temperature down from 37 to 34 with drugs used to stop shivering. When

you have a stroke caused by blood clot rain cells start to did because

they are not getting enough oxygen. If you cool the body down the body

needs less energy and so less bright cells will die. It has been a long

journey for these patients, most have had a stroke and adapthng can

take months or even years. Ht affected my left hand side. The more

we can learn the better it will be for anybody else. 20 yards `s the

maximum I can go. It looks like it can reduce the amount of disability

after a stroke by one third which can be really dramatic. Acthng fast

is important and the results of the clinical trial are not expected for

three years. A school has apologised for making some of its pupils wear a

sign when they wanted to go to the toilet. The policy was withdrawn

after a parent complained that it was degrading. From Derby, Simon

Hare reports. Today's edition of the Sun newspaper cold it a scandal and

carried a picture of a child where the sign. This school had m`de its

eldest boys were the sign s`ying I am going to the toilet, when they

needed to do just that. The school said it was to ensure only one child

was in there at any one timd but it has now been withdrawn after a

parent complained. The headteacher said the sign had been introduced

because damage had recently been caused to doors and sinks in the

school toilets. Toilets had also been blocked causing a flood.

Causing complaints from a p`vement be immediately stop using them. The

statement concludes we are sorry if this has caused any distress or

upset. Some took it as OK btt we were horrified. It looked lhke he

had been branded. They do that in America to criminals. I had no idea

anything like this was happdning or going on. I was worried abott it

because it is very degrading. I am very surprised schools would do

this, usually schools issue toilet passes, they do not have signs that

go around the neck to embarrass or humiliate. The head of the campaign

that spoke to the Sun newsp`per declined to be interviewed by us and

said they did not want to t`ke the issue further. That's your news So

it's goodbye from me, but whth your weather now, here's Anna Chtrch It

has been a cloudy day with some outbreaks of rain. That is what we

can expect throughout tonight. Cloud will continue to increase and it is

thick enough to produce somd light rain and drizzle at times. Ht is

mild. As we head towards dawn some persistent rain pushing end. That

will be with us first thing tomorrow morning before it clears fahrly

quickly to the south`east. We will see an improvement and most of us

will have some sunshine by the afternoon. It is still quitd

pleasant in the sunshine. On Saturday after a cloudy and frosty

start it will improve and wd should see some decent sunshine by the

afternoon. I will leave you know with an outlook.

outlook for London. Temperatures stay like this.

Hello, after the teenage tantrums of the last couple of months, the

weather is going to move into more sedate middle age will stop maybe

tonight is the midlife crisis because it is still likely -- middle

age. Breezy and cloudy for most will stop but it will not be cold, but

wet, particularly across Cumbria. The railway -- the rain is reluctant

to move from Northern Ireland, Scotland, increasingly wet across

Wales