07/03/2017 Midlands Today

Arsenal in Europe. Natalie thank you very much again at the Emirates

Stadium. An investigation's been launched

after an eight year old boy died less than 24 hours after he was sent

home from the Worcestershire Callum Cartlidge suffered

a cardiac arrest at his home But when an ambulance was called -

it had to take him back to Worcester because the children's ward

at the Alexandra Callum lived just two minutes

from the Redditch hospital. Here's our Health

Correspondent Michele Paduano. Callum Cartlidge was

supposed to have had He was sent home from

the Worcestershire Royal Hospital Those who campaigned to keep

children's and maternity services in Callum's home town

of Redditch were shocked. We're constantly assured

this would never happen Now, I just can't help thinking

that my local hospital can't save my child if they're

really, really ill. West Midlands Ambulance

Service arrived on scene Having done advanced life support,

at 3.42pm, they left for Worcester. 23 minutes later, at

4.05pm, they arrived. The Ambulance Service

said it did everything Callum Cartlidge's family live just

a mile down this road, that's two minutes by ambulance

from the hospital. I understand that a request was put

in to bring him here, So paramedics spent 23 minutes

at speed in the back of an ambulance performing chest compressions,

but he died. In September, a paramedic

voiced his concerns that this If I had a child in cardiac arrest,

I would want to get I wouldn't want to drive past an A

department to get to another A department because,

obviously, we're talking, from Redditch to Wocester,

it's a good 35, 40 minutes. I think it is wrong to link

Calum's death in any way I think it is wrong to link

Callum's death in any way As with any unexpected death

in children, there will be We will be doing an internal

investigation, but have also When we find more information,

we will share that with the family. A postmortem is being carried out

to find the cause of Callum's death. A Walter Mitty character

who poisoned his wife with laxatives has been jailed for three

and a half years. David Smith from Telford

who was described as a fantasist and claimed he was an ex-SAS hero,

made Elizabeth Smith so ill Elizabeth Smith left court

shaken, but satisfied. She had just seen

her husband jailed. This man, David Smith,

claimed to be an SAS war hero In reality, he was a poisoner,

a liar and a thief. When I first met Dave,

he was the kindest... They were married,

but he lived in England. They saw each other

every couple of weeks. The plan was to buy a place

together, eventually. He told her he'd been in the SAS

and involved in the siege He seemed loving and

attentive, making spaghetti One day, while at work

at her hairdressing business, I would be working away and chatting

and all of a sudden I would feel really dizzy and think,

"Oh no, God", thinking This will supposedly

him with cancer. He was finally caught after faking

a break-in at Elizabeth's home. Thousands of pounds of her money

was found in his car. For me, there were no

signs of anything. I mean, even about the SAS,

and everything, that part On sentencing him to three

and a half years in prison, Sheriff Montgomery told David Smith

he'd embarked on a prolonged, That caused mental and physical

anguish to his victim. A man accused of murdering his

ex-partner and hiding her body today told a jury he didn't kill

the mother of his two children. Osmond Bell claimed he'd been

assaulted and racially abused by the police when questioned

about the killing in 1981. Nova Welsh was 24-years-old

when she went missing in Birmingham. Her body was eventually

discovered in a cupboard Her former partner said

he felt broken and numb Police are treating

the death of a man who fell from the window of a flat

in Birmingham as unexplained. Emergency services were called

to an address on the Stratford Road in Sparkbrook last night,

but the man who was in his Officers are examining CCTV footage

and carrying out house to house enquiries to try to work

out what happened. Coventry City Council's cracking

down on beggars, cyclists, buskers and street traders to make

the city centre a better They've escaped an outright

ban, but they'll have Our reporter Kevin

Reide is in Coventry. Why does the council

want to do this? Well, the council simply wants to

make the city centre a more attractive place for residents,

shoppers and businesses and in doing so in the main they will be

targeting beggars, skateboarders and cyclists. Buskers will be able to

perform in designated. Our reporter has been out in Coventry City centre

today to find out more. Share the streets respectfully with

each other. It is in answer to issues that residents and shoppers

have raised. With cyclist going too fast. With skateboarders causing

problems and making noise by residential properties. It is also

about aggressive beggars. Not leaving people alone. Standing at

car park and payment machines. Begging is a punishment offence, but

now reinforced in Coventry by this order. I'm interest BBC Television.

The council say they will ask people to move on and offer them help

rather than fine them immediately, but for some forced to beg, it is a

matter of survival. Two weeks ago I matter of survival. Two weeks ago I

was in court. Nothing new really. And how much was that fine for? ?30.

OK. I paid it, but why are they fining because we're doing this

because we can't live on what we've got anyway. Council officials and

police will enforce the order which includes asking speeding cyclists

and skateboarders to show consideration to those around them

before they're erb ud with a fine. -- issued with a fine. What do the

shoppers think about it? There was sympathy particularly for the

beggars. It breaks my heart for

people that are homeless. How are they going to pay

if they're begging for food or for a bit of money,

how are they going to pay the fine? Are they going to keep

wracking up the fines? There are quite a lot of people that

stop you to ask for money that Cycling through a pedestrian area

is wrong because you can knock over somebody,

but begging, I have Charity starts at home

and you should helping people. If somebody had to be reduced

to that state of seeking somebody else's help,

I cannot see any reason why not the police and the council want

these extra powers because it gives them more flexibility in how they

deal with the various issues and the council is offering that support

that we heard mention thered. These new powers come into force for the

next three years, but at any point during that time, they can be

amended and changed or rescinded and they can also be extended. So things

Coventry City centre as the council Coventry City centre as the council

tries to make it a more pleasant place. Nick.

Kevin, thank you. The new Coventry City manager

Mark Robins has admitted today he faces a much tougher task

in his second spell at the club. Robins first joined Coventry

in September 2012 and steered them This time he finds

the Sky Blues bottom. They're 13 points from safety

with just 11 games to play. At the wasn't a case of desperation

to get at back at any cost. It was a case of being desperate to help this

club and we have got to turn it around and I really, really want, I

have got a feel for it and I want to help turn that around.

Onto tonight's results football and none of our sides won

But better news from League One, where Walsall beat Chesterfield 1-0.

I'll leave you with the weather from Shefali.

Hello. Well, it was another spring-like today. Plenty of

sunshine on offer and the temperatures responded nicely

indeed. We saw highs of ten Celsius across much of the region. Just

cooler towards the north of the region. However, that will change

tomorrow. It will be milder. Milder everywhere in actual fact and on

Thursday, along with the warmth we could see a repeat of today's

conditions. Lots of sunshine and plenty of dry weather, but in the

meantime, we have this heading in from the west. It is a warm sector

that's crossing the region. Once this is cleared, it will leave us

with a legacy of milder air which is why the temperatures are going to

begin to rise even if we don't get any sunshine. But for tonight, let's

take a look at this rain on the map. It is across western and central

parts. Swiftly moving eastwards. There will be heavier bursts, but

most of it is patchy and it will become patchier as we head into the

second part of tonight. Temperatures dropping to six or seven Celsius and

misty and murky with that moisture and warmth into the morning

tomorrow. But the rain will come and go during the morning. It is finally

clearing eastwards during the afternoon, by which stage it will be

drier across all parts. Specks of brightness and sunshine. Top

temperature 12 Celsius. rain on Saturday. The national

picture now from Nick Miller. It looks like next week high

pressure will become a player again in our weather, settling things down

for some of us for a time but until then it is low-pressure, rain moving

across the UK overnight but not wet all the time. Many of us at a fine

day today, this was at you from West Yorkshire and Yorkshire and northern

England and Northern Ireland will farewell tomorrow, after this

frontal system has pushed on through the UK with rain. But as it does, it

introduces milder air so for the rest of the week we will have

temperatures widely into double figures. Back to the here and now

and that rain which has been like an patchy across the west of the