25/07/2011 Midlands Today

Good evening. The family of a Warwickshire mother of three who

died during surgery to remove a huge tumour from her chest have

today received an out of court settlement of a hundred thousand

pounds. Her family say they were told she had a 98 per cent chance

of surviving surgery - but today the hospital said the surgery

carried "significant risk". Sarah Falkland reports.

They were just nine, 12 and 15 when they lost their mum six years ago.

Today, with their grandmother, they went to the High Court in

Birmingham to hear a judge sanction the settlement for her death. The

34-year-old care worker from Bedworth had suspected that what

doctors thought was stress was something more serious. She came

here to Bedworth Medical Centre. She was seen by two GPs, who are

defendants in this case. Neither of them thought to get her a chest X-

ray. It wasn't until seven months later that a third GP did refer her

to the George Eliot Hospital that St Day, and a tumour was discovered.

By the time surgeons at the then- Walsgrave Hospital in Coventry came

to operate, the tumour weighed 1.6 kilograms. Ms Bailey developed an

abnormal heart rhythm and died. still really miss her. We will

never get over it. It has been hard for all of us, it is like a

grieving roller-coaster. Your thoughts are everywhere. But you

just have to stick together. I am angry with the people who were

giving us information incorrectly, saying there was only a 2% chance

that anything could go wrong. Neither the hospital nor the GPs

have admitted liability. No one from the surgery would comment

today - but in a statement the The trust offered its sincere

sympathies and condolences to the family.

A woman has avoided serious injury after a lorry overturned and landed

on her car near Walsall. The accident happened on the northbound

carriageway of the M6. The woman was treated for a leg injury, and

the effects of shock. The driver of the lorry wasn't injured. As a

result of that accident, the N six remained closed northbound tonight.

A year after Pakistan was hit by monsoon flooding, charities in the

West Midlands say they're concerned donations have dwindled. 11 million

people were forced from their homes, but only 43 per cent of the houses

destroyed have been replaced. Satnam Rana reports.

I was scared, but I had no choice... Recalling the moment he's swum

across the raging river to return to his family and home. The bridge

had been washed away. He was on holiday in the Swat valley of

Pakistan last July, when the monsoon at least it's devastating

rains. -- unleashed its devastating rains. A year on, what is your

family telling you? I just find them, saying that this time of the

year, the river is rising. So far, nearly $2.5 billion has been

donated to the floods appear, but the charity Islamic Relief says

there is a shortfall which is slowing down progress in recovery

work. 12 months on, there is a largely unnoticed Unitarian crisis

on going in Pakistan. -- humanitarian crisis. 8 million

people are still without basic needs like Shelter and schooling.

Now the United Nations is reporting up to 6 million people could be

affected by floods in the monsoon season this year. My biggest

concern would be that in the whole melee of so many things going on in

the world, that people would forget about Pakistan. The impact that

would have his people cannot look after themselves, they would be

relied on charity. The main thing we try and do is help people help