25/07/2011

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:00:10. > :00:13.Good evening. The family of a Warwickshire mother of three who

:00:13. > :00:16.died during surgery to remove a huge tumour from her chest have

:00:16. > :00:25.today received an out of court settlement of a hundred thousand

:00:25. > :00:27.pounds. Her family say they were told she had a 98 per cent chance

:00:27. > :00:30.of surviving surgery - but today the hospital said the surgery

:00:30. > :00:35.carried "significant risk". Sarah Falkland reports.

:00:35. > :00:38.They were just nine, 12 and 15 when they lost their mum six years ago.

:00:38. > :00:41.Today, with their grandmother, they went to the High Court in

:00:41. > :00:43.Birmingham to hear a judge sanction the settlement for her death. The

:00:43. > :00:49.34-year-old care worker from Bedworth had suspected that what

:00:49. > :00:56.doctors thought was stress was something more serious. She came

:00:56. > :01:00.here to Bedworth Medical Centre. She was seen by two GPs, who are

:01:00. > :01:05.defendants in this case. Neither of them thought to get her a chest X-

:01:05. > :01:09.ray. It wasn't until seven months later that a third GP did refer her

:01:09. > :01:12.to the George Eliot Hospital that St Day, and a tumour was discovered.

:01:12. > :01:15.By the time surgeons at the then- Walsgrave Hospital in Coventry came

:01:15. > :01:24.to operate, the tumour weighed 1.6 kilograms. Ms Bailey developed an

:01:24. > :01:29.abnormal heart rhythm and died. still really miss her. We will

:01:29. > :01:34.never get over it. It has been hard for all of us, it is like a

:01:34. > :01:39.grieving roller-coaster. Your thoughts are everywhere. But you

:01:39. > :01:43.just have to stick together. I am angry with the people who were

:01:43. > :01:46.giving us information incorrectly, saying there was only a 2% chance

:01:46. > :01:48.that anything could go wrong. Neither the hospital nor the GPs

:01:48. > :01:58.have admitted liability. No one from the surgery would comment

:01:58. > :02:05.

:02:05. > :02:13.today - but in a statement the The trust offered its sincere

:02:13. > :02:18.sympathies and condolences to the family.

:02:18. > :02:22.A woman has avoided serious injury after a lorry overturned and landed

:02:22. > :02:27.on her car near Walsall. The accident happened on the northbound

:02:27. > :02:31.carriageway of the M6. The woman was treated for a leg injury, and

:02:31. > :02:36.the effects of shock. The driver of the lorry wasn't injured. As a

:02:36. > :02:39.result of that accident, the N six remained closed northbound tonight.

:02:39. > :02:43.A year after Pakistan was hit by monsoon flooding, charities in the

:02:43. > :02:47.West Midlands say they're concerned donations have dwindled. 11 million

:02:47. > :02:55.people were forced from their homes, but only 43 per cent of the houses

:02:55. > :03:00.destroyed have been replaced. Satnam Rana reports.

:03:00. > :03:03.I was scared, but I had no choice... Recalling the moment he's swum

:03:03. > :03:10.across the raging river to return to his family and home. The bridge

:03:10. > :03:14.had been washed away. He was on holiday in the Swat valley of

:03:14. > :03:21.Pakistan last July, when the monsoon at least it's devastating

:03:21. > :03:30.rains. -- unleashed its devastating rains. A year on, what is your

:03:30. > :03:37.family telling you? I just find them, saying that this time of the

:03:37. > :03:40.year, the river is rising. So far, nearly $2.5 billion has been

:03:41. > :03:46.donated to the floods appear, but the charity Islamic Relief says

:03:46. > :03:51.there is a shortfall which is slowing down progress in recovery

:03:51. > :03:55.work. 12 months on, there is a largely unnoticed Unitarian crisis

:03:55. > :03:59.on going in Pakistan. -- humanitarian crisis. 8 million

:03:59. > :04:03.people are still without basic needs like Shelter and schooling.

:04:03. > :04:08.Now the United Nations is reporting up to 6 million people could be

:04:08. > :04:13.affected by floods in the monsoon season this year. My biggest

:04:14. > :04:17.concern would be that in the whole melee of so many things going on in

:04:17. > :04:22.the world, that people would forget about Pakistan. The impact that

:04:22. > :04:25.would have his people cannot look after themselves, they would be

:04:25. > :04:30.relied on charity. The main thing we try and do is help people help