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Good evening. stories on the BBC News Channel.	:00:00.	:00:08.
A woman is in a "stable and comfortable" condition in hospital	:00:09.	:00:11.
tonight after being severely mauled by two dogs in Herefordshire.	:00:12.	:00:14.
She was attacked by a bull mastiff and a Staffordshire bull terrier.	:00:15.	:00:19.
It was on a busy street that two dogs attacked	:00:20.	:00:26.
The woman was named locally as Teresa Stinton.	:00:27.	:00:31.
Even if they've got a dog like that in the house, it should	:00:32.	:00:37.
have been muzzled if they know people are going to that house.	:00:38.	:00:40.
Yeah. She was just dropping a bag of clothes off.	:00:41.	:00:50.
A cyclist was injured as she tried to help add another woman bitten.	:00:51.	:00:56.
The attack went on for 15 minutes before a man intervened.	:00:57.	:01:00.
Robert Hirschmann, who rescued Teresa, wouldn't be interviewed.	:01:01.	:01:02.
But he said he couldn't believe people stood and watched.	:01:03.	:01:04.
His mother said she was disgusted, but she's proud of her son.	:01:05.	:01:08.
He just talked calmly to the dog and he got the dog off.	:01:09.	:01:11.
Because, according to him and my other son, no one was helping	:01:12.	:01:15.
the woman and the attack went on for about 15 minutes.	:01:16.	:01:17.
Police have appealed for anyone who may have filmed	:01:18.	:01:22.
It may have been that people weren't sure what to do, how to do it.	:01:23.	:01:28.
What I would like to do is appeal for anybody	:01:29.	:01:31.
who did see it to come forward to us.	:01:32.	:01:33.
It's quite possible someone has captured this on a mobile phone	:01:34.	:01:36.
or other device and it would be really helpful to us to see that.	:01:37.	:01:40.
Two men are still in custody tonight and Teresa Stinton, a mother of two,	:01:41.	:01:44.
The family of a young woman killed by a lorry driver	:01:45.	:01:50.
as he used his mobile phone have called for tougher sentences for	:01:51.	:01:53.
Ian Glover was browsing sexually explicit websites	:01:54.	:01:57.
Tending a garden created in memory of her daughter helps	:01:58.	:02:05.
Laura Jane Thomas, a teaching assistant from Great	:02:06.	:02:10.
Hayward in South Staffordshire, was killed last July.	:02:11.	:02:14.
She was five foot, blonde and really energetic.	:02:15.	:02:19.
She's just missed, missed so much now.	:02:20.	:02:24.
She and her fiancee Lewis were off to the seaside for the day	:02:25.	:02:28.
Laura was killed at the end of this stretch of road, near Shrewsbury.	:02:29.	:02:33.
The lorry crashed into their stationary car,	:02:34.	:02:36.
which had broken down, propelling it into Laura as she stood	:02:37.	:02:40.
On Friday a court was told how the lorry driver,	:02:41.	:02:45.
Ian Glover from Birmingham, had been looking at images	:02:46.	:02:48.
on a sexually explicit dating site moments before the crash.	:02:49.	:02:51.
He pleaded guilty and was jailed for five years.	:02:52.	:02:54.
He will only serve two and a half, possibly.	:02:55.	:02:57.
If it's five years, it should be five years.	:02:58.	:02:59.
If you take a life, you should be responsible for that.	:03:00.	:03:04.
The family want tougher action too against motorists	:03:05.	:03:07.
In November 2011, 13`year`old Hope Fennell died in Kings Heath,	:03:08.	:03:14.
in Birmingham, run over by a lorry driver sending text messages.	:03:15.	:03:18.
By making and selling friendship bracelets,	:03:19.	:03:22.
Laura's family have raised ?3,000 for charity, keeping alive the	:03:23.	:03:26.
memory of a girl whose death, said the judge, was utterly avoidable.	:03:27.	:03:35.
A neurosurgeon is claiming that the footballer Jeff Astle died	:03:36.	:03:38.
from a brain condition normally linked with boxers and that he	:03:39.	:03:42.
Dr Willie Stewart from Glasgow University says he believes	:03:43.	:03:46.
the England and West Bromwich striker was killed by chronic	:03:47.	:03:49.
His family have been campaigning for research to be carried out	:03:50.	:03:54.
A portrait of the Staffordshire charity fundraiser Stephen Sutton	:03:55.	:03:59.
has failed to sell at auction. Bidding closed yesterday on the	:04:00.	:04:02.
drawing of the 19`year`old whose funeral was on Friday. But the	:04:03.	:04:05.
portrait failed to meet its reserve price of ?7,500. It'll now be given	:04:06.	:04:09.
to the Teenage Cancer Trust to be sold at a later date.	:04:10.	:04:12.
Time now to bring you the weather forecast.	:04:13.	:04:15.
We are losing the dry weather now, it will be replaced by an unsettled	:04:16.	:04:28.
picture. Tonight, a weather front coming in across the West it will	:04:29.	:04:32.
start to produce heavy outbreaks of rain overnight and hill fog as	:04:33.	:04:37.
well. The minimum temperature no lower than 10 Celsius. A wet start	:04:38.	:04:41.
to the day as the weather front works its way in producing showers	:04:42.	:04:47.
of rain and heavy bursts into the afternoon. The temperatures not as	:04:48.	:04:50.
good as today. A gentle southerly breeze with highs of 18.	:04:51.	:04:53.
More in the national forecast in a moment, and Midlands Today is	:04:54.	:04:56.
back throughout Breakfast here on BBC One.	:04:57.	:04:58.
Hope you had a nice weekend, it was a warm and sunny one across central	:04:59.	:05:14.
and eastern areas. A different story out west with signs of change. It	:05:15.	:05:17.
will be a different week this week with some rain around. Some sunshine	:05:18.	:05:23.
too. For a time, it will feel a good	:05:24.	:05:25.

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