:00:12. > :00:16.A family desperate to bring their ill mother home
:00:17. > :00:18.after she suffered a suspected heart attack on holiday
:00:19. > :00:21.say they're facing huge medical bills because of what they say
:00:22. > :00:30.was an innocent mistake when taking out travel insurance.
:00:31. > :00:32.The 62-year-old is currently is on life support in Turkey,
:00:33. > :00:36.For ten days now, 62-year-old Heather Pyke has been in a coma in a
:00:37. > :00:39.hospital in Turkey following a suspected heart attack while on
:00:40. > :00:43.holiday with her two daughters and granddaughter.
:00:44. > :00:48.It was horrible, me and my sister just broke down.
:00:49. > :00:49.My poor niece was outside, with one of
:00:50. > :00:56.We had to put our sunglasses on, because I did not
:00:57. > :01:06.They discovered that their mother did not have travel insurance.
:01:07. > :01:13.She had what is known as a European health insurance card, which gives
:01:14. > :01:16.access to state provided health care in EU countries, but Turkey is not
:01:17. > :01:29.The money will just get higher and higher.
:01:30. > :01:38.About one quarter of British travellers go
:01:39. > :01:41.abroad without insurance and today, experts warned of the need for
:01:42. > :01:45.Am afraid it isn't unusual, people go away
:01:46. > :02:00.EHIC card or do not understand that cover that the card provides.
:02:01. > :02:02.Wherever you go, it is worth checking that
:02:03. > :02:04.you have a EHIC, everybody should have
:02:05. > :02:05.won, it is applicable in the
:02:06. > :02:08.place you are going to but you should underpin it with travel
:02:09. > :02:11.While a EHIC card provides valuable health insurance
:02:12. > :02:14.cover, it does not provide the rest of the benefits proper travel
:02:15. > :02:19.The Foreign and Commonwealth Office do not pay
:02:20. > :02:24.medical bills or the costs of flying people home by air ambulance.
:02:25. > :02:31.The family set up a Just Giving page to raise money.
:02:32. > :02:39.it, another reason we have to get her home.
:02:40. > :02:42.If anyone is going abroad, make sure you have travel insurance.
:02:43. > :02:49.It was their first family holiday together
:02:50. > :02:53.and one they will now remember for all the wrong reasons.
:02:54. > :02:56.More and more young people are seeking advice about what to do
:02:57. > :02:58.in the event of an acid attack - that's according
:02:59. > :03:03.It comes after the recent spate of incidents here in the capital.
:03:04. > :03:16.St John Ambulance already run an education over, giving advice on
:03:17. > :03:19.things like knife and gun wounds. This is the first time they've
:03:20. > :03:23.included anything on acid attacks. It is driven by young Londoners,
:03:24. > :03:26.evidently they have more and more been approaching first a desert
:03:27. > :03:32.festival is on that type of thing and asking what they should do in
:03:33. > :03:35.the event of an attack. I teach in schools every single day and hear
:03:36. > :03:39.about lots of different things happening to our young people. This
:03:40. > :03:43.is the biggest shocker, I believe. We do a lot around gunshot and knife
:03:44. > :03:53.wounds but the acid attacks are so very damaging. This type of attacks
:03:54. > :03:57.do seem to be on the rise. Yes. We have had 12 alleged attacks in the
:03:58. > :04:02.last month. Police believe that is due to tougher legislation around
:04:03. > :04:06.nice. They believe there should be an outright ban on carrying
:04:07. > :04:11.corrosive substances. These classes are all about educating. You could
:04:12. > :04:16.be selected because you are the first person at the time because it
:04:17. > :04:21.is random makes it scary. What she said can be quite useful. It is
:04:22. > :04:25.unfortunately had to learn about bad and could possibly potentially have
:04:26. > :04:31.to implement it. If it does happen, and hopefully it does not, I would
:04:32. > :04:35.know how to help them. Community leaders we have spoken to say they
:04:36. > :04:40.believe outright bans are short-sighted and do not tackle the
:04:41. > :04:47.cause of this worrying kind of trend. They think more social
:04:48. > :04:51.policies are needed. Until then acid attacks are real, live issues. St
:04:52. > :04:56.John Ambulance say it is responding from young people for calls for
:04:57. > :05:01.practical advice about how to deal with an acid attack. Hanky. That is
:05:02. > :05:05.what this thank you. A special opera performance has
:05:06. > :05:08.taken place in Holland Park this evening - to raise money to help
:05:09. > :05:10.support those affected The production company behind it,
:05:11. > :05:14.which is mourning the loss of one of its own, has been criticised
:05:15. > :05:31.in the past for being Birdie's Requiem is often used in
:05:32. > :05:35.memoriam. Tonight in Holland Park it is being performed for those who
:05:36. > :05:43.lost their lives and homes a couple of miles up the road in Grenfell
:05:44. > :05:48.Tower. It directly affected one of their own, a member of staff, Debbie
:05:49. > :05:52.Sample, who lived on the 16th floor, missing, presumably dead. It is
:05:53. > :05:56.difficult for me to talk about. The last time I saw her was sitting at
:05:57. > :06:00.this bench on the night of the fire. You're listening to the end of the
:06:01. > :06:04.opera we were performing that night. We said good night at the end of it.
:06:05. > :06:14.It was lovely and that was it hit helps the feeling about why we
:06:15. > :06:16.wanted to make such an impact on why we wanted to do something. Grenfell
:06:17. > :06:19.lies to the north of Kensington, the poor part of Kensington. The part of
:06:20. > :06:24.the borough the council has been accused of neglecting. Until two
:06:25. > :06:27.years ago, the opera in Holland Park with the council service, the same
:06:28. > :06:31.as any other council leisure facility like Jim Morrison mean
:06:32. > :06:37.pool. That has led to criticism about those who have questioned the
:06:38. > :06:41.authority of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. They have
:06:42. > :06:45.misspent government and council taxpayers funds on countless vanity
:06:46. > :06:51.projects and hand-outs as we have heard while underfunding essential
:06:52. > :06:56.services. Those who run the opera insist that there's is the
:06:57. > :07:03.accessible opera company in the country. It has had direct
:07:04. > :07:06.involvement with the community. When you pitch it as opera is not as
:07:07. > :07:10.important as homes and living standards in the borough but that is
:07:11. > :07:14.not an argument I would ever have with you or anyone else. They spent
:07:15. > :07:19.millions on what sort of other services. It is the word, opera,
:07:20. > :07:24.that is clearly a problem for people. Perhaps if we were straight,
:07:25. > :07:29.theatre company, it would not be as controversial. In this country opera
:07:30. > :07:39.generally as this stereotype that people tend to hold. Stereotype or
:07:40. > :07:42.not, tonight was my one-off performance was a sell-out with all
:07:43. > :07:43.proceeds going to help the victims of Grenfell Tower.
:07:44. > :07:46.They go back hundreds, if not thousands of years as a way
:07:47. > :07:48.of preserving the image of a loved one.
:07:49. > :07:50.Beethoven, Oliver Cromwell and Napoleon were all rendered
:07:51. > :07:54.Now death masks seem to be making a come back.
:07:55. > :08:09.So you've got the guy laying here dead and I literally just
:08:10. > :08:11.pour it out of the bowl, and the whole of his head
:08:12. > :08:14.is literally covered in this thick blue moulding substance.
:08:15. > :08:17.This was the former manager of a Soho club.
:08:18. > :08:20.The mask was commissioned by his friends.
:08:21. > :08:22.That's exactly how he looked when he died.
:08:23. > :08:25.And as you can see, it picks up every detail.
:08:26. > :08:34.Nick Reynolds says he's now made almost 100 death masks.
:08:35. > :08:36.And in the kitchen, which is Nick's workshop,
:08:37. > :08:39.One so recent, we've been asked to hide the face,
:08:40. > :09:04.But Nick says a death mask helps some people deal with their grief.
:09:05. > :09:06.Some people take the death mask to bed with them.
:09:07. > :09:09.They wake up in the morning, roll over and bingo,
:09:10. > :09:14.But they are tremendous cathartic tools and they help people come
:09:15. > :09:18.I have had moments of, you know, of just talking to it, you know.
:09:19. > :09:22.Joe Corre, who runs the company Agent Provocateur, commissioned Nick
:09:23. > :09:25.to make a death mask of his father, the artist and performer
:09:26. > :09:28.A copy of the mask is now in Highgate Cemetery.
:09:29. > :09:31.It was made while his body lay in a morgue in Chalk Farm.
:09:32. > :09:33.My exact thought, I walked in, wow, that's Malcolm,
:09:34. > :09:38.Nick's masks can cost upwards of ?2,000.
:09:39. > :09:40.The Highgate Cemetery Trust says if more death masks
:09:41. > :09:44.are more being made, it would be good to
:09:45. > :09:53.Time for me to say goodnight and as August begins I'll leave
:09:54. > :09:58.you with Wendy for a look at the weather.
:09:59. > :10:05.It was not too bad today. There were some decent spells of sunshine once
:10:06. > :10:09.again but there were tell-tale signs in the sky that things were about to
:10:10. > :10:14.change that there is a bit more cloud and some rain on the way at
:10:15. > :10:17.the moment. It is out in the Atlantic that the low pressure
:10:18. > :10:22.system developed. A beautiful swirl of cloud you can see that it has
:10:23. > :10:27.been pushing its way towards us. There is cloud in the sky at the
:10:28. > :10:34.moment and the rain is about to come onto the shores of Cornwall. For the
:10:35. > :10:36.time being, we do have a bit of high cloud around which is keeping the
:10:37. > :10:42.warmth of the day came. Temperatures not much lower than 13, 15 tonight.
:10:43. > :10:47.It will feel muggy in the morning. A bit of brightness. The cloud begins
:10:48. > :10:52.up. The rain will be on and off throughout the afternoon. Some of it
:10:53. > :10:56.will be heavy. The brutal pick-up and temperatures will struggle
:10:57. > :11:01.between 17 and 19. Something heavier through the evening. On Thursday it
:11:02. > :11:02.is back to sunshine and showers to end the week. Fewer of them
:11:03. > :11:10.is back to sunshine and showers to end the week. Fewer of them over the
:11:11. > :11:14.weekend. Hello. We have changed the month but not the weather. You will
:11:15. > :11:19.know that if you got caught in a heavy downpour. The Met Office says
:11:20. > :11:25.July was wetter than average in the UK. Perhaps when it comes to
:11:26. > :11:33.sunshine, in one of the few yellow areas that you have more sunshine
:11:34. > :11:38.than average. It continued today on the first day of August with blue
:11:39. > :11:44.sky on view at Lerwick. Some cloud in Cornwall. A funnel cloud, a
:11:45. > :11:51.tornado that has not touched the ground. Quieter overnight but not
:11:52. > :11:52.for long. Low-pressure is about to come in. It will be wet and windy