:00:00. > :00:13.of those living with HIV. Don't forget, there is a
:00:14. > :00:19.And now the news for the East Midlands, I'm Dominic Heale. Good
:00:20. > :00:22.evening. First tonight, a woman accused of causing the deaths of two
:00:23. > :00:26.toddlers by careless driving has spoken of the moments immedhately
:00:27. > :00:29.after the fatal collision. Sharmila Mistry told Leicester Crown Court
:00:30. > :00:34.her car filled with smoke and she thought it was going to explode Her
:00:35. > :00:36.BMW had been hit by another vehicle which forced it towards the
:00:37. > :00:47.pushchairs the children werd sitting in. Eleanor Garnier reports. This is
:00:48. > :00:52.the scene tonight during rush`hour. The crash was just before 10am on a
:00:53. > :00:57.Monday morning in the summer of 2012, it left the scene of
:00:58. > :01:04.devastation. She had been driving down this road, talking on `
:01:05. > :01:10.hands`free device, something she had done for the past 12 years because
:01:11. > :01:17.her job involved hundreds of miles of driving. She accepts she was
:01:18. > :01:21.doing 36 miles an hour in a 30 zone. When she got to this junction she
:01:22. > :01:27.drove through an amber light and was hit by another vehicle on the right,
:01:28. > :01:33.that driver had gone through a red light. When empowered, the whole car
:01:34. > :01:37.jolted. She said she jolted comic she was not going straight `ny
:01:38. > :01:42.more, it she froze, her hands were on the steaming peel but shd could
:01:43. > :01:49.not control anything. She ddscribed how smoke from the bags was filling
:01:50. > :01:53.her BMW. She thought the car was going to explode. Her car mounted
:01:54. > :01:59.this pedestrian island knocking the pushchairs of two children, both
:02:00. > :02:05.died of head injuries. The prosecution alleges the driver was
:02:06. > :02:10.distracted by her phone call and because she was over the spded
:02:11. > :02:15.limit, it minimised her chances of avoiding a collision. She ddnies two
:02:16. > :02:19.counts of death by dangerous driving. The trial continues. Next,
:02:20. > :02:22.the research which may help stroke victims lead a better life. Experts
:02:23. > :02:25.at the University of Nottingham say disabilities caused by the lost
:02:26. > :02:36.common type of stroke could be cut by a third if the body's telperature
:02:37. > :02:41.is reduced after a seizure. So we have had a cardiac arrest and they
:02:42. > :02:45.are worried her rain has suffered it appealable damage so they are
:02:46. > :02:49.killing it. The sooner the rain is cooled, the slow or rain cells will
:02:50. > :02:57.die and the less rain damagd she will suffer. It is all a race
:02:58. > :03:03.against time and it will be when the same principle is tried out on
:03:04. > :03:11.stroke patients in the UK as well. If we start with rolling thhs
:03:12. > :03:15.patient towards me. Nurses `nd doctors from five UK hospit`ls are
:03:16. > :03:23.being taught how to cool stroke patients. You can take them
:03:24. > :03:30.completely off. Water fills these cooling pads to bring the body
:03:31. > :03:38.temperature down from 37 to 34 with drugs used to stop shivering. When
:03:39. > :03:43.you have a stroke caused by blood clot rain cells start to did because
:03:44. > :03:49.they are not getting enough oxygen. If you cool the body down the body
:03:50. > :03:55.needs less energy and so less bright cells will die. It has been a long
:03:56. > :04:03.journey for these patients, most have had a stroke and adapthng can
:04:04. > :04:10.take months or even years. Ht affected my left hand side. The more
:04:11. > :04:24.we can learn the better it will be for anybody else. 20 yards `s the
:04:25. > :04:29.maximum I can go. It looks like it can reduce the amount of disability
:04:30. > :04:35.after a stroke by one third which can be really dramatic. Acthng fast
:04:36. > :04:46.is important and the results of the clinical trial are not expected for
:04:47. > :04:51.three years. A school has apologised for making some of its pupils wear a
:04:52. > :04:54.sign when they wanted to go to the toilet. The policy was withdrawn
:04:55. > :04:57.after a parent complained that it was degrading. From Derby, Simon
:04:58. > :05:03.Hare reports. Today's edition of the Sun newspaper cold it a scandal and
:05:04. > :05:09.carried a picture of a child where the sign. This school had m`de its
:05:10. > :05:14.eldest boys were the sign s`ying I am going to the toilet, when they
:05:15. > :05:20.needed to do just that. The school said it was to ensure only one child
:05:21. > :05:25.was in there at any one timd but it has now been withdrawn after a
:05:26. > :05:30.parent complained. The headteacher said the sign had been introduced
:05:31. > :05:34.because damage had recently been caused to doors and sinks in the
:05:35. > :05:39.school toilets. Toilets had also been blocked causing a flood.
:05:40. > :05:45.Causing complaints from a p`vement be immediately stop using them. The
:05:46. > :05:52.statement concludes we are sorry if this has caused any distress or
:05:53. > :05:57.upset. Some took it as OK btt we were horrified. It looked lhke he
:05:58. > :06:03.had been branded. They do that in America to criminals. I had no idea
:06:04. > :06:11.anything like this was happdning or going on. I was worried abott it
:06:12. > :06:15.because it is very degrading. I am very surprised schools would do
:06:16. > :06:20.this, usually schools issue toilet passes, they do not have signs that
:06:21. > :06:27.go around the neck to embarrass or humiliate. The head of the campaign
:06:28. > :06:32.that spoke to the Sun newsp`per declined to be interviewed by us and
:06:33. > :06:36.said they did not want to t`ke the issue further. That's your news So
:06:37. > :06:42.it's goodbye from me, but whth your weather now, here's Anna Chtrch It
:06:43. > :06:47.has been a cloudy day with some outbreaks of rain. That is what we
:06:48. > :06:52.can expect throughout tonight. Cloud will continue to increase and it is
:06:53. > :07:00.thick enough to produce somd light rain and drizzle at times. Ht is
:07:01. > :07:04.mild. As we head towards dawn some persistent rain pushing end. That
:07:05. > :07:09.will be with us first thing tomorrow morning before it clears fahrly
:07:10. > :07:14.quickly to the south`east. We will see an improvement and most of us
:07:15. > :07:20.will have some sunshine by the afternoon. It is still quitd
:07:21. > :07:25.pleasant in the sunshine. On Saturday after a cloudy and frosty
:07:26. > :07:30.start it will improve and wd should see some decent sunshine by the
:07:31. > :07:33.afternoon. I will leave you know with an outlook.
:07:34. > :07:38.outlook for London. Temperatures stay like this.
:07:39. > :07:44.Hello, after the teenage tantrums of the last couple of months, the
:07:45. > :07:49.weather is going to move into more sedate middle age will stop maybe
:07:50. > :07:54.tonight is the midlife crisis because it is still likely -- middle
:07:55. > :07:59.age. Breezy and cloudy for most will stop but it will not be cold, but
:08:00. > :08:04.wet, particularly across Cumbria. The railway -- the rain is reluctant
:08:05. > :08:05.to move from Northern Ireland, Scotland, increasingly wet across
:08:06. > :08:06.Wales