31/10/2016 East Midlands Today

And now the news for the East Midlands, I'm Anne Davies.

First tonight, an inquest h`s heard how the wrong drug given

to the wrong care home resident led to the death

The blunder happened just hours after she'd moved into

Cedar Court nursing home in Wigston in Leicestershird.

Here's our Health Correspondent, Rob Sissons.

At the inquest today we heard Patricia Rosen had gone into the

nursing home just before shd died. She was given a painkiller that was

meant for another Patricia. It was around 16 times the usual dose you

would give to someone starthng out on the medication.

Patricia Rosen's first night at this nursing home back in February

She should never have been given the painkiller.

Her family arrived at today's inquest to hear

There have been concerns that the home raised

about staffing levels during the night time.

The former deputy manager s`id she stayed late to

brief a new agency care nurse, who gave the fatal dose,

about the system for administering the drugs there.

She says with hindsight, she should have stayed even longer.

The drugs round was already running four hours late

and it was after midnight when she left,

because she was on duty the next morning.

Patricia's family left with two more days of evidence

to hear, which they hope will shed more light on what went so

Next tonight a judge, sentencing Dominic Halliday,Fox

for 23 years, warns of the dangers young men face

17-year-old Dante Francis was stabbed in the heart

It was outside the Empire Bar in Derbyshire

in the early hours of the

Here, Dante Francis from Lehcester was stabbed by Dominic

The court heard they did not know each other.

Dante Francis did punch Dominic Halliday-Fox,

as the jury saw on CCTV.

They then saw Dominic Halliday-Fox drawing a knife and

Dominic Halliday-Fox claims he thought Dante

Francis had a knife and onlx carried his for protection.

But today, the jury decided it was murder.

Diana Francis, Dante Francis's mother, said

his girlfriend is pregnant `nd described how devastating it is for

She actually travelled in the ambulance with her son and

while he was still awake, and they held hands

Operations are running in relation to knife

crime and there's power in

the importance of emphasising to youngsters the

The judge said to Dominic Halliday-Fox, as long as

young men like you are carrxing knives, more young lives will be

He sentenced him to a minimtm of 23 years in prison before he c`n be

A family is urging holiday travellers to check their insurance

after a 39-year-old mother suffered a brain haemorrage.

Katy Head is now expected to spend months in intensive care in Athens,

and although she's insured, her husband is now relying

on internet donations to stay in Greece.

On the Greek island of Kos, it was meant to be the holiday of a

lifetime for members of the Head family from Derby, to celebrate

Craig, Katie and younger son, Leighton, were enjoying

this boat trip ten days ago when seconds after this picture was

taken, Craig realised something was seriously wrong with Katie.

By the time I'd reached her, her face was

down in the water and I grabbed her by her life vest, pulled

Katie had actually suffered an aneurysm,

a burst blood vessel in

She was taken by ambulance to Kos hospital and was airlifted

to a neurological hospital hn Athens where Craig and Leighton evdntually

Back in Derby, Craig's mum says insurance that Katie and son

Leighton had covered it, but Craig had separate insurance.

Now the firm Katie's using says it has paid all the

maximum extra cash for Craig to stay in Athens.

The family now say they wish they'd checked the details on

Check how much cover you will have and how long xou

can stop out there for, because it's not just the p`tient.

Katie has got millions of pounds worth of medical

insurance, but it's the othdr part that costs you, that you nedd to

Craig's now relying on Internet donations to stay in

Greece, while Sharon's had to spend ?1000 of her own money

For most of his working lifd, Arran Linton-Smith from Nottingham

It was only when he was diagnosed with autism, that his workplace

His story is part of a new campaign by the National Autistic Society

Arran Linton-Smith from Nottingham has had a wide range of jobs.

He struggled with some and was asked to

Four years ago, problems at work became clear when

at the age of 56, he was diagnosed with autism.

There's a huge stigma attached to autism.

A lot of autistic people are frightened of entering

A lot of workplaces are frightened of employing someone

who is different, because they often feel threatened as a result of that.

He's a senior consultant at one of the world's biggest support and

He wants to help more employees understand the

benefits that autistic people bring to the workplace.

I'm frequently speaking up `nd I did write

solutions to problems away before the rest of the design team actually

But Arran is a rarity within a minority.

A survey by the National Autistic Society found that

many autistic people are struggling to find jobs.

32% had either full-time or part-time jobs, that compares

40% of autistic people had never worked.

Arran Linton-Smith's now part of the new autism and emploxment

campaign by the National Autistic Society.

This afternoon, he's been up Parliament sharing his work

Fortunately, I work for a l`rge organisation and I'm

In that position, I can influence change with confidence.

And that's what I've done, H've been open about my autism.

In my role, I feel very strongly about leaving the

door open for the next generation of autistic

Earlier, I spoke to Sarah L`mbert, Head of Policy at the National

Autistic Society, and began by asking her what sort

of help autistic people need in the workplace.

So this would be things like support in terms

of social interaction and

But also, within the workpl`ce, they may need to be

adjustments to make sure the environment is autism friendly,

because lots of autistic people have problems with bright lights or loud

noises, so it can be just about making

simple adjustments in the workplace

so that people can concentrate and get on with their

So presumably that's really about employers and

people in the workplace being more aware and be more accepting?

So with the campaign we just launched we did also launch a

short film, showing some of the difficulties that autistic

people can find to the interview process

which looks at communication difficulties they might expdrience

and also some of the sensorx things I just talked about in terms of

lighting and noise and you can see that short film about autisl at

So, it's goodbye from me, but with your weather

It has been a fine start and there was fog this morning, but wd have

seen the return of autumn stnshine. It has been mild. Temperature of 17

degrees. It is usually around 1 degrees this time of year. But it

turns colder this week. A cold front going south tomorrow. A bit of rain

and some cooler and fresh ahr. You will notice the difference. The

first frosts will be seen, too. Dry and sunny until Friday when it turns

more unsettled. One more night with moist and mild air and fog hs now

forming which will be with ts for the rest of the night. Quitd dense

and tricky driving conditions. But it is dry and mild, temperatures of

9-10d. A murky start tomorrow. The fog clears and there will bd a bit

of rain. It will move away `nd then we will see sunshine across northern

parts by the end of the day. You will notice the difference, 9-1 d

top temperature. That will take those into a cold and frostx start

on Wednesday, but that will be compensated with sunshine,

beautiful, hazy sunshine on Wednesday. Still on the chilly side,

temperatures 9-10d on Wednesday Similar on Thursday, a colddr and

frosty start, but plenty of sunshine. Temperatures struggling at

9-10d again, a bit of cloud pushing in by the end of the day. Changes

for the end of the week. A weather front sinking south which whll give

us more showery conditions for the end of the week. Eight few showers,

sunshine and still feeling chilly. Here

side. Strong northerly winds, some sunshine and also some rain for the

weekend. The National weather coming up now with Louise. Halloween 2 16

has almost come and gone but it has left some spookily interesting

statistics. It has been a third consecutive mild Halloween. The

warmest was in 2014, 20 four Celsius. Today we have been breaking

records in Wales, the warmest Halloween, 22 Celsius. A glorious

shot, fairly indicative of what we had in Wales today, sent in by

weather watcher earlier. A different story further north and east. The

cloud made it great and in the Northern Isles temperatures didn't

climb above nine Celsius. It is as cold air set to descend south

through the course of the night tonight and brings a marked contrast

for