:00:13. > :00:20.And now the news for the East Midlands, I'm Dominic Heale. Good
:00:21. > :00:23.evening. First tonight ` an investigation's underway after a
:00:24. > :00:26.mother admitted killing her baby daughter when the balance of her
:00:27. > :00:29.mind was disturbed from givhng birth. The police had asked an
:00:30. > :00:32.emergency social services tdam to visit Amy Black ` but they were told
:00:33. > :00:48.no`one was available. The ndxt morning her little girl Zoe was dead
:00:49. > :00:50.from drowning. The scene in the hospital emergency department after
:00:51. > :00:57.a baby is brought in for resuscitation. Zoe Black, sdven
:00:58. > :01:02.months old, was taken to thd Queens medical Centre in Nottinghal last
:01:03. > :01:05.year. Our cameras were therd and captured the dramatic moments.
:01:06. > :01:12.Hospital staff could not save Zoe, her mentally unstable mother had
:01:13. > :01:19.drowned her. Amy Black pleaded guilty to the killing. This is where
:01:20. > :01:25.the tragedy happened. It is the family home in Nottingham. Lr Black
:01:26. > :01:31.was away in hospital at the time. CCTV footage of the back garden
:01:32. > :01:38.showing Amy Black putting the body into undergrowth, were shown at
:01:39. > :01:40.Crown Court. Neighbours found Mrs Black wandering around with
:01:41. > :01:47.self`inflicted knife wounds. The day before, Mrs Black had taken Zoe to
:01:48. > :01:55.London. She asked the policd for help. A Sergeant tried to gdt social
:01:56. > :02:00.services to visit Mrs Black, they said no one was available that
:02:01. > :02:05.afternoon or evening. The only option for police was a chepue the
:02:06. > :02:09.next morning, but that was overtaken by events. A Serious Case Rdview,
:02:10. > :02:14.looking at how authorities handle things, is now underway. In a
:02:15. > :02:35.statement, the safeguarding children board said... Mrs Black, an
:02:36. > :02:42.American, 30 years younger than her husband, is due to appear in court
:02:43. > :02:45.again next month. A new study claims the government's squeeze on welfare
:02:46. > :02:49.benefits is leading to an increase in rent arrears and a drop hn
:02:50. > :02:54.council tax revenue in the Dast Midlands. The research, comlissioned
:02:55. > :02:58.by the region's local counchls, also says the welfare reforms have taken
:02:59. > :03:00.?1.3 billion out of the loc`l economy. From Westminster, this
:03:01. > :03:11.report from our Political Editor John Hess. This research is the
:03:12. > :03:14.first snapshot of the impact of the government's controversial welfare
:03:15. > :03:19.benefit changes on our local authorities. It calculates that
:03:20. > :03:24.18,000 households were hit by what government critics call the Bedroom
:03:25. > :03:35.Tax. 89,000 tenants in the private sector face cuts to housing.
:03:36. > :03:43.Conservative MPs, such as Andrew Britton, have blamed
:03:44. > :03:50.Labour`controlled councils. They should be looking to curtail it
:03:51. > :03:58.They should be riding the front line services that residents desdrve ``
:03:59. > :04:05.providing. 50% of council tdnants in Leicester City Council cannot afford
:04:06. > :04:11.to pay back rent. Leicester City Council is losing ?300,000. Tax
:04:12. > :04:18.payers across the board losd out. Will this issue go away? Hardly
:04:19. > :04:22.likely because East Midlands' councils have asked the chidf
:04:23. > :04:28.executive to monitor the impact of the government's controvershal
:04:29. > :04:31.benefit changes. GP surgerids in Nottingham could soon be opdning on
:04:32. > :04:35.Saturdays and Sundays. The city s NHS bosses are getting readx to lead
:04:36. > :04:38.the way with an experiment which will be closely monitored. The move
:04:39. > :04:41.appears to have popular support but a doctors' leader says it jtst won't
:04:42. > :04:49.work, as our Health Correspondent Rob Sissons explains. They will not
:04:50. > :04:56.be open all hours, but here they want to open more hours. Ond of
:04:57. > :05:00.seven GP practices in Nottingham, interested in Saturday and Sunday
:05:01. > :05:05.opening. There are times whdn they want to see a GP, and they `re
:05:06. > :05:08.unable to do so, and Saturd`y has been identified as a day whdre they
:05:09. > :05:15.would like access to a GP. He is up for Sunday working to a GP hs not
:05:16. > :05:19.falling over themselves to do it. There are 60 practices in Nottingham
:05:20. > :05:26.with a handful open on Saturdays. Patients I spoke to in Notthngham
:05:27. > :05:30.like the idea of seven day `ccess. I think it is brilliant. At the
:05:31. > :05:43.weekends, when you need a doctor, you cannot get one. I work for the
:05:44. > :05:49.health service on a Saturdax and Sunday, they should. This doctor
:05:50. > :05:54.'s' leader in Matlock is not sure whether it will work. What we cannot
:05:55. > :06:00.provide, because we do not have the resources, is 20 47 convenidnce
:06:01. > :06:12.medicine. We do not have enough doctors. `` 24`hour. They hope more
:06:13. > :06:18.GP appointments here might dase some of the pressure. Today's news is
:06:19. > :06:26.most welcome. Saturdays and Sundays are frequently the most busx of the
:06:27. > :06:34.week. We have a frailer and older population which puts presstre on
:06:35. > :06:39.the wider NHS. That is the news Here is your weather now with Anna
:06:40. > :06:43.Church. We have had a fairlx decent day at the cloud has increased, and
:06:44. > :06:48.that is the story for the ndxt couple of days. A cloudy night ahead
:06:49. > :06:51.but it will be quite mild. The cloud increases as we go through the rest
:06:52. > :06:57.of the evening and overnight. It will be quite thick and there will
:06:58. > :07:01.be some rain and drizzle. It helps, however, to hold the temper`tures
:07:02. > :07:07.up. We are looking at lows of six Celsius. It is a cloudy start to
:07:08. > :07:13.Thursday and into the afternoon we may see some showers. A good deal of
:07:14. > :07:19.dry weather but it will stax quite cloudy, I am afraid! Top ten of 11
:07:20. > :07:24.Celsius. An improvement on Friday with cloud and rain around hn the
:07:25. > :07:29.morning, but that will clear away, and we should hopefully see
:07:30. > :07:30.sunshine. The weekend is looking promising, here is the outlook for
:07:31. > :07:33.the next few exceed 15 Celsius. The unsettled
:07:34. > :07:40.weather will continue. With more on that, here is the National forecast.
:07:41. > :07:45.Good evening. I would like to start by showing you simply haven't seen
:07:46. > :07:49.the quite some time. After a three-month onslaught, finally I can
:07:50. > :07:53.show you a chart with high pressure across the whole of the UK. Yes
:07:54. > :07:57.things are settling down. You may have spotted, though, that says
:07:58. > :08:03.Monday, so we have a little way to go yet. We have some rain in the
:08:04. > :08:06.forecast. Not so much in the area suffering from flooding up to now
:08:07. > :08:08.but in northern parts of the UK it's been a wet day for a western
:08:09. > :08:10.Scotland and more