09/04/2012

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:00:33. > :00:36.Tributes have been paid to a father and son who were killed in a road

:00:36. > :00:40.crash. Close friends of 14-year-old Ethan Sarkar paying their respects

:00:41. > :00:45.at the family home. The teenager from Garrett screen in Birmingham

:00:45. > :00:55.died along with his father Derek in a head-on collision on the Aire and

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:00:56. > :01:03.Calder Bridge on the A6,100 and -- If you were down he would make you

:01:03. > :01:07.smile, no matter what. He was always there for you, hard working.

:01:07. > :01:13.Ethan was a front seat passenger in his dad's VW Golf. His nine-year-

:01:13. > :01:19.old sister, Abbey, and his mother, Karen, are still critically ill in

:01:19. > :01:24.Leeds General Infirmary. The driver of the other car, 70 Sheila

:01:24. > :01:28.Stavert-Lee, also died. Pupils have been leaving floral tributes at

:01:28. > :01:34.Eton's school. The principal says counselling will be offered to

:01:34. > :01:41.close friends. Ethan was a lovely young man, a

:01:41. > :01:45.genuinely lovely young man. He was kind, he was gentle, well-mannered

:01:45. > :01:51.to, and well respected by all. He was never in trouble and had a

:01:51. > :02:01.great future ahead of him. Residents near the bridge have

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:02:02. > :02:05.called for improved safety. Friends back in Birmingham say the Sarkars

:02:06. > :02:08.were in East Yorkshire visiting relatives when the tragedy happened.

:02:08. > :02:15.Police are appealing for information after the body of a 19-

:02:15. > :02:18.year-old student from -- was found under an M6 flyover. Thomas Healey

:02:18. > :02:24.from Kingstanding was discovered near hurricane Park Industrial

:02:24. > :02:27.Estate in Erdington. More than half the patients

:02:27. > :02:31.admitted to a Birmingham eye treatment centre have been treated

:02:31. > :02:38.for a serious infection that could lead to blindness. Doctors at

:02:38. > :02:41.Birmingham's City Hospital say there has been a significant rise

:02:41. > :02:47.in the number of people with an aggressive contact lens-related

:02:47. > :02:52.infection. This student nearly lost to sight

:02:52. > :02:58.after she developed an infection while wearing contact lenses.

:02:58. > :03:02.My eyes became sore and swollen. They told me it was a rare

:03:02. > :03:05.infection but quite serious. If they had not founded earlier that

:03:05. > :03:12.was the potential for me to go blind. When I found out, it was

:03:12. > :03:16.quite shocking. The infection is one of the most

:03:16. > :03:22.aggressive eye infections and can spend with -- spread within days,

:03:22. > :03:28.causing inflammation. If untreated, it can lead to blindness. Of 192

:03:28. > :03:32.patients traded at this hospital over a four-month period, more than

:03:32. > :03:37.half had a serious infection. Some of them may have suffered serious

:03:37. > :03:46.damage to their site. This man specialises in treating

:03:46. > :03:53.eye infections. He says that a major cause is poor hygiene. Some

:03:53. > :03:57.people do not wash their hands when they are handling their lenses.

:03:57. > :04:04.Sometimes it is to do with tap water. It sometimes has some of the

:04:04. > :04:11.nastiest bugs in it. This girl now needs regular

:04:11. > :04:14.eyedrops. The advice is that, if you are in doubt, seek help.

:04:14. > :04:19.A Gloucestershire war memorial that was smashed by vandals last year

:04:19. > :04:29.has been rebuilt. The monument could not be repaired, so now,

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:04:31. > :04:36.after months of painstaking work, a replacement is almost finished.

:04:36. > :04:39.Imagine doing this every day. It is a job for a perfectionist. I am

:04:39. > :04:42.just putting the last finishing touches on the detail. I am making

:04:42. > :04:46.it nice and sharp. A group of Gloucestershire stone

:04:46. > :04:50.masons have been chipping away for months, trying to get it right.

:04:50. > :04:55.They are creating something they never thought they would have to.

:04:55. > :05:05.It does add to the pressure, year. It is a piece which everybody will

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:05:05. > :05:10.be able to see. To get it right, there was a lot of pressure.

:05:10. > :05:16.In October, the war memorial was knocked over and smashed into

:05:16. > :05:19.pieces, some of which were simply dumped by the roadside. Many of the

:05:19. > :05:26.villagers at Prestbury have relatives whose names are inscribed

:05:26. > :05:31.here. I was in tears when I saw what these people are done to the

:05:31. > :05:37.war memorial. It was awful. names are still present in the

:05:38. > :05:41.village. One could see that they do belong in this place and that is

:05:42. > :05:48.important for people to see that they are still there. The new

:05:48. > :05:53.sculpture will be unveiled on 14th April. Clegg will be 91 years to

:05:53. > :05:57.the day since the original was put in place.

:05:57. > :06:05.The football now. It is half-time in Aston Villa's game against Stoke

:06:05. > :06:14.City. Aston Villa are winning 1-0. Coventry lost 3-1 against Bristol

:06:14. > :06:20.City. The Blues a leading against West half -- West Ham at a time.

:06:20. > :06:30.One result from League 1. Walsall have gone down 1-0 at Charlton.

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:06:41. > :06:47.Hereford have lost to Accrington Telford's match against Tamworth

:06:47. > :06:56.was abandoned after 43 minutes due to a waterlogged pitch.

:06:56. > :07:02.I think some people would find today's whether a welcome change. A

:07:03. > :07:07.soggy day. This week will be a welcome change because we have some

:07:07. > :07:10.April showers on the way. You will find in the next couple of hours

:07:11. > :07:17.that the rain will clear away to the east. There are a few showers,

:07:17. > :07:23.particularly in the West. There could be a touch of frost in

:07:23. > :07:29.sheltered spots as temperatures fall away. There windy gusts of

:07:29. > :07:33.around 35 mph Rover made. There will be a lot of sunshine first

:07:33. > :07:42.thing tomorrow, but turning wet through the day as an area of

:07:42. > :07:46.showers moves in. It will be quite breezy and cold in the showers.

:07:46. > :07:53.That is the way it goes for the rest of the week. Showers during