:00:00. > :00:00.changes to grading and assessment. That is all
:00:00. > :00:11.Hello and welcome to Midlands Today. The headlines tonight: Patients in
:00:12. > :00:12.danger ` the hospital which failed to give insulin to a diabetic
:00:13. > :00:15.patient. We ask why a rising number of
:00:16. > :00:19.diabetes sufferers routinely miss some of their medication whilst in
:00:20. > :00:22.hospital. Also tonight: Baby Jade, named after the dog who found her
:00:23. > :00:33.abandoned in a park, police urge her mother to get in touch.
:00:34. > :00:38.We will continue to search for the mother.
:00:39. > :00:40.Time for your close up. The mysterious world of our waterways
:00:41. > :00:43.uncovered with fishcam. Treading the footsteps of the Peaky
:00:44. > :00:47.Blinders, a tour following the success of the BBC drama.
:00:48. > :00:50.Well we've got bonfires and Diwali this weekend but will those
:00:51. > :00:52.fireworks go off with a bang, or will the weather make it more of a
:00:53. > :01:08.damp squib? Find out later. Good evening. A diabetic patient in
:01:09. > :01:11.Shropshire nearly died after hospital staff failed to give her
:01:12. > :01:15.insulin. It follows the deaths of two other diabetics in Midlands
:01:16. > :01:18.hospitals since 2007. In this country, three million people are
:01:19. > :01:23.living with diabetes and almost a million more have the condition, but
:01:24. > :01:27.are undiagnosed. The charity, Diabetes UK, claims 40 per cent of
:01:28. > :01:31.sufferers experience at least one mistake in their medication whenever
:01:32. > :01:35.they're in hospital. Here's our health correspondent, Michele
:01:36. > :01:44.Paduano. Margaret Thorpe can't speak up for
:01:45. > :01:47.herself. She has dementia. She also has an attentive husband so when she
:01:48. > :01:50.was admitted at midnight to the Royal Shrewsbury hospital last
:01:51. > :01:54.month, he gave her insulin details to the Dr. 16 hours later, he asked
:01:55. > :01:58.a nurse on the ward about her insulin. He says staff there were
:01:59. > :02:07.unaware. When Margaret was tested her blood sugar was high. If we had
:02:08. > :02:21.not picked it up that afternoon market would have gone into a coma.
:02:22. > :02:26.`` maggots would have gone into a coma stop `` Margaret would have
:02:27. > :02:30.gone into a coma. The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital claims
:02:31. > :02:39.the Dr informed the ward that she required insulin but not how much.
:02:40. > :02:41.Mr Thorpe claims the details were on the ward.
:02:42. > :02:44.There have been two high profile cases in the last six years where
:02:45. > :02:50.diabetic patients have died in similar circumstances.
:02:51. > :02:52.The family of 55`year`old Margaret Pitt received a large pay`out
:02:53. > :02:57.because in 2010 the Alexandra Hospital in Redditch failed to
:02:58. > :03:00.monitor her. And three years earlier, Ron Street lost his friend,
:03:01. > :03:08.Gill Astbury after Stafford Hospital neglected to give her insulin. He's
:03:09. > :03:19.stunned it could happen again. Needless loss of life. Something has
:03:20. > :03:26.to be done to stop this sort of thing happening. A survey carried
:03:27. > :03:34.out last year shows how dangerous it can be for diabetics. 20% of all
:03:35. > :03:42.patients had an episode of low blood sugar. 40% had at least one
:03:43. > :03:47.medication error. I want to avoid this happening again to someone
:03:48. > :03:56.else. I am concerned that next time it would be a fatality.
:03:57. > :04:05.I'm joined now by Ken Taylor, a consultant and diabetes specialist.
:04:06. > :04:13.How much of a cause for concern should these incidents be for
:04:14. > :04:19.diabetic patients? They are a major cause of concern
:04:20. > :04:22.for us all. Diabetics want to have confidence when they go into
:04:23. > :04:28.hospital but they will be properly looked after. Up to 20% of the
:04:29. > :04:40.inpatients and English hospitals have diabetes. A survey recently
:04:41. > :04:45.showed that figure was 27%. The difference is with the ethnic mix of
:04:46. > :04:49.the population. You think it would be easy to put a note on that the
:04:50. > :04:54.patient is diabetic. What is going wrong which are there is an
:04:55. > :05:03.initiative to get all staff asking the question could this person have
:05:04. > :05:08.diabetes. There are some problems. There is a feeling these days within
:05:09. > :05:14.management circles that diabetes can be entirely managed in primary care.
:05:15. > :05:21.Consequently, with the pressures on finances in the NHS, it has led to
:05:22. > :05:32.diabetes specialist nurses not being replaced when they are leaving.
:05:33. > :05:37.Given the fact that money is tight and staff numbers are a challenge
:05:38. > :05:46.what can be done to prevent diabetic patients dying? The plan is to have
:05:47. > :05:56.a diabetes champion on every ward. This is a qualified nurse would not
:05:57. > :06:01.be an expert in diabetes, but would have some training and know the
:06:02. > :06:06.importance of administering insulin to a patient that has had something
:06:07. > :06:11.to eat and checking the blood glucose and if she felt things were
:06:12. > :06:15.getting out of control contacting the diabetes. That needs to be
:06:16. > :06:21.implemented in every inpatient ward in every hospital in the country.
:06:22. > :06:25.Coming up later in the programme: More than just Two Tone, celebrating
:06:26. > :06:31.Coventry's music heritage in a new museum.
:06:32. > :06:34.The newborn baby abandoned in a Birmingham park yesterday has been
:06:35. > :06:40.called Jade ` after the Alsatian dog which found her. But there's still
:06:41. > :06:43.no sign of her mother and police have again asked for her to come
:06:44. > :06:53.forward. Sarah Falkland is outside Police HQ for us tonight. Sarah what
:06:54. > :06:58.can you tell us about Jade tonight? She is in hospital. She is getting
:06:59. > :07:06.round the clock care. She is very healthy. She was found yesterday
:07:07. > :07:18.afternoon by this dog called Jade who literally sniffed her out in
:07:19. > :07:27.that park yesterday. The owner then found the baby wrapped in a towel in
:07:28. > :07:31.a plastic bag. If the baby had been left for an hour or two longer. Us
:07:32. > :07:46.see the consequences could have been brutal. `` Doctors say the
:07:47. > :07:54.consequences could have been fatal. We think the baby was therefore less
:07:55. > :07:58.than 30 minutes. That gives us an area we can look for us to where the
:07:59. > :08:05.pregnancy might have happened and the Labour might have happened.
:08:06. > :08:12.Anyone who has any information please come forward. What else have
:08:13. > :08:18.the police had to say? They are carrying out DNA checks on the towel
:08:19. > :08:25.and the bag. That'll only leads to people if they have a criminal
:08:26. > :08:34.record. If you saw our bag like this please get in touch. They have also
:08:35. > :08:45.renewed calls for the mother of Jade to get in touch and seek medical
:08:46. > :09:01.help. It is a sign of society today. Just come forward. I feel sorry for
:09:02. > :09:09.the girl. Whatever has happened has happened. Face it. In cases of
:09:10. > :09:16.abandoned a Beasley is the mothers do eventually come forward, it just
:09:17. > :09:22.takes a bit of time. `` in cases of abandoned the fees than mothers do
:09:23. > :09:24.eventually come forward. A former Labour councillor's been
:09:25. > :09:27.jailed for 16 months for fraudulently taking ?10,000 of party
:09:28. > :09:30.funds. Andy Lilley was the Treasurer of Stoke on Trent MP Tristram Hunt's
:09:31. > :09:34.constituency party. Sentencing him, the judge said he had no alternative
:09:35. > :09:37.but to send him to jail because, "a clear message has to be sent out."
:09:38. > :09:40.Our Staffordshire reporter Liz Copper was in court.
:09:41. > :09:43.Andy Lilley, a man who the court heard had, "betrayed the trust and
:09:44. > :09:48.confidence" of the political party he'd been a member of." He pleaded
:09:49. > :09:55.guilty to one count of fraud and one of false accounting. He'd
:09:56. > :09:58.transferred ?10,000 of Labour party funds to his own accounts.
:09:59. > :10:01.The fraud was taking place during the General Election campaign, when
:10:02. > :10:05.Tristram Hunt was elected to the Stoke Central seat. Tonight Dr Hunt
:10:06. > :10:08.has said he's, "very satisfied that justice has been done in this
:10:09. > :10:12.unpleasant and unfortunate case. " A former leader of Stoke on Trent City
:10:13. > :10:21.Council says attempts were made at a constituency party meeting to report
:10:22. > :10:25.the wrongdoing. The constituency Labour Party became
:10:26. > :10:38.aware of these thefts in February 2000 and ten at the Labour Party
:10:39. > :10:46.nationally were made aware of it. The Labour Party says it did not
:10:47. > :10:55.discover the fraud until this year. In his defence he was described as a
:10:56. > :11:03.broken man. Sentencing Andy Lilley the judge said a clear message had
:11:04. > :11:10.to be sent out. A senior Liberal Democrat has called
:11:11. > :11:20.for an end to the vertical mixed messages on HS2.
:11:21. > :11:32.Here is our Political Editor. Does this suggest that things have
:11:33. > :11:50.changed around the dynamics of HS2? Ministers are now emboldened to
:11:51. > :11:54.press ahead with this. We would be letting down the people
:11:55. > :12:05.of the West Midlands and letting down industry if we were to reject
:12:06. > :12:09.HS2. It is so important. We need to redistribute that balance. It is not
:12:10. > :12:12.all about London. It is about the Midlands and the North of England.
:12:13. > :12:22.We have got to bring prosperity to those areas.
:12:23. > :12:28.HS2 continues to divide opinion. I was talking to a Green Party
:12:29. > :12:32.councillor who feels the direction of travel as far as investment is
:12:33. > :12:42.concerned is the other way round. She feels it. Investment away from
:12:43. > :12:46.this area towards the capital. With detailed legislation due next
:12:47. > :12:48.year how do you assess the political prospects?
:12:49. > :12:53.This book has reinforced the consensus at the top of British
:12:54. > :13:05.optics. It reinforces the view that extent to which Parliament is out of
:13:06. > :13:10.touch according to opponents. The debate will probably move
:13:11. > :13:14.towards compensation payments. They will be more on this and much else
:13:15. > :13:30.decides in the Sunday Politics this weekend.
:13:31. > :13:34.Rivers are a vital part of the Midlands landscape, but how much do
:13:35. > :13:38.we know about what goes on under the surface? The Environment Agency is
:13:39. > :13:42.using special underwater cameras linked to computers to track fish up
:13:43. > :13:44.and down rivers in the Midlands. And as our Environment Correspondent
:13:45. > :13:46.David Gregory`Kumar discovered, they're providing new information
:13:47. > :13:50.about a previously mysterious world. A swirl of minnows, perch and dace
:13:51. > :13:53.in the evening. Even a predatory pike. And all swimming up hill and
:13:54. > :14:03.over a weir. All thanks to an ingenious solution to manmade
:14:04. > :14:13.obstacles like weirs ` the fishpass. You have got the two ball at either
:14:14. > :14:18.side. Then there are battles. That slows the watered`down to allow the
:14:19. > :14:21.fresh to move down. But this fishpass is rather special.
:14:22. > :14:26.To check it's working the Environment Agency have installed a
:14:27. > :14:31.fishcam. It tells us about the species. It tells us how many fish
:14:32. > :14:37.are passing up and down through the past. We can make that data such as
:14:38. > :14:42.temperature and flow so we can get an idea of migration behaviour.
:14:43. > :14:46.You might think a river looks empty but thanks to the camera we can see
:14:47. > :14:54.it's teeming with life ` perch, dace, pike and minnows passing
:14:55. > :14:59.through. And even an otter. That was the best day at work ever. That sort
:15:00. > :15:09.of prodigious not been seen before. It was really exciting to see it.
:15:10. > :15:13.Fish needs to move upstream to breed and defeat. They also need to escape
:15:14. > :15:17.pollution. Of course there's plenty of work to
:15:18. > :15:20.keep all this technology clean and working underwater for a year. But
:15:21. > :15:34.the result provides huge amounts of new information on our rivers.
:15:35. > :15:38.And David's here with us now, how hard is it for our fish to move up
:15:39. > :15:41.and down our rivers? It's really hard although it is
:15:42. > :15:44.getting better. There are thousands of manmade obstacles all over our
:15:45. > :15:47.rivers. Making life hard for fish. It's not just the famous species
:15:48. > :15:51.like salmon and eels that need to move up big rivers like the Severn.
:15:52. > :15:55.Freshwater fish migrate too. So if you can't remove a weir then putting
:15:56. > :15:58.in a fish pass is often the answer to increasing this movement. And
:15:59. > :16:02.although they look simple there's a lot of design involved with a fish
:16:03. > :16:05.pass, the slope involved, the shape of the entrance. And that's why the
:16:06. > :16:09.camera is so useful because it allows us to make sure we've got it
:16:10. > :16:13.right. As we saw the whole system doesn't just produce this video. It
:16:14. > :16:16.also counts the fish going up and down. And the Environment Agency can
:16:17. > :16:19.use computer software to work out the likely weight of the fish
:16:20. > :16:22.passing through. It also catches some nice behaviour, this pike is
:16:23. > :16:25.actually probably using the camera tunnel as cover for its hunting.
:16:26. > :16:29.Which seems to work since not long after it's back this time it has an
:16:30. > :16:33.unlucky perch in its mouth. Now this weekend could be a really
:16:34. > :16:36.good one to see our most spectacular migratory fish making their way
:16:37. > :16:40.upriver ` the salmon. Although they will use a fish pass they will still
:16:41. > :16:43.try the more dramatic way to get over a weir first. Salmon love dull
:16:44. > :16:47.grey skies with a falling flood water level. As the visibility
:16:48. > :16:50.improves within the water the salmon begin to jump ` which means this
:16:51. > :16:53.weekend should be ideal. Tewkesbury, Shrewsbury, Ludlow and Worcester all
:16:54. > :16:56.have weirs where you have a good chance of seeing some action. We've
:16:57. > :17:01.put the exact locations and more information online at
:17:02. > :17:05.facebook.com/midlandstoday. This is our top story tonight:
:17:06. > :17:10.Patients in danger ` the hospital which failed to give insulin to a
:17:11. > :17:13.diabetic patient. Your detailed weather forecast to
:17:14. > :17:17.come shortly with Rebecca. Also in tonight's programme: Suffering from
:17:18. > :17:21.a severe bout of homesickness, how Villa are having more luck on the
:17:22. > :17:24.road. And following in the footsteps of
:17:25. > :17:34.the Peaky Blinders, a new tour of dramatic Digbeth.
:17:35. > :17:40.A new museum celebrating Coventry's music history opens this weekend. It
:17:41. > :17:44.tells the story of the city's success, from Frank Ifield to The
:17:45. > :17:52.Enemy and of course Two Tone. Ben Sidwell's at the museum now. There
:17:53. > :18:01.are flashing lights in this report. Ben, Coventry's really proud of its
:18:02. > :18:07.music isn't it? You might remember one of these
:18:08. > :18:16.booths. That's what this place is about.
:18:17. > :18:25.Let us speak to the man who has created this. Why have you done
:18:26. > :18:30.this? Coventry has a fantastic musical story to tell and now we
:18:31. > :18:34.have a place we can tell it. Liverpool goes on about the Beatles,
:18:35. > :18:44.but there are not many other places in this country that are as proud as
:18:45. > :18:50.Coventry of their musicians. So many people want to see where it
:18:51. > :18:59.all began. We have got lots of musical genres abusing this treaty.
:19:00. > :19:13.`` lots of musical genres and musical history here.
:19:14. > :19:28.What you make of it? It is brilliant. Jets can find out where
:19:29. > :19:40.it has all come from. It officially opens to the public on Sunday. It is
:19:41. > :19:44.well worth a look around. Dan's here with the sport and Villa
:19:45. > :19:48.on the road this weekend. So far this season they've won seven
:19:49. > :19:58.points away and only three points at home. No wonder Aston Villa aren't
:19:59. > :20:01.fazed by tomorrow's trip to West Ham. But many supporters are worried
:20:02. > :20:05.by their team's poor form at Villa Park. So Ian Winter met up with the
:20:06. > :20:08.boss, Paul Lambert at the club's open training session this week.
:20:09. > :20:12.The bald eagle has landed. National bird of the USA. It loves swooping
:20:13. > :20:16.on salmon. And is rarely seen at Villa Park. Likewise the vulture.
:20:17. > :20:19.Almost as rare as home victories in the top flight.
:20:20. > :20:22.Since Paul Lambert took charge, Villa have played 25 Premier League
:20:23. > :20:26.games in front of their own fans. They've won only six, they've drawn
:20:27. > :20:35.five, they've lost 14. And that's produced just 23 points from a
:20:36. > :20:47.possible 75. Villa park is not exactly a
:20:48. > :20:54.fortress. We have two gets the home form better. That is not rocket
:20:55. > :20:59.science. You are off to West Ham on Saturday. Another hard game.
:21:00. > :21:02.This week, thousands of Villa fans, most of them youngsters enjoying
:21:03. > :21:05.half`term, turned out to watch an open training session. And for many,
:21:06. > :21:15.it's no mystery why their favourite team is finding it so hard to win at
:21:16. > :21:25.home. I fancy as more away than we do that home. They are too nervous.
:21:26. > :21:29.We need the crowd on our side. They need to tighten up their defence and
:21:30. > :21:36.get more experience in the side. Give him until Christmas. There are
:21:37. > :21:44.lots of young players in the team as well. You need leaders to go out
:21:45. > :21:47.there and set an example. Tomorrow, Villa fly south in search
:21:48. > :21:50.of victory at West Ham. So Villa's home record not great but
:21:51. > :21:54.Britain's cyclists love racing at home and there's been early success
:21:55. > :21:56.at the World Cup in Manchester. Yes the men's sprint team including
:21:57. > :22:01.Staffordshire's Kian Emadi are through to the bronze medal race.
:22:02. > :22:03.They were third fastest in qualifying this afternoon and
:22:04. > :22:08.they'll race New Zealand this evening. And tomorrow Bromsgrove's
:22:09. > :22:11.Jess Varnish is in action. Most people remember Jess for being
:22:12. > :22:17.disqualified in the women's team sprint at London 2012 along with
:22:18. > :22:21.Victoria Pendleton. Well she's also missed most of this year with a back
:22:22. > :22:27.injury. But now she's back and tomorrow she races in the individual
:22:28. > :22:34.sprint. There's live coverage on the BBC via the Red Button this weekend.
:22:35. > :22:38.The brutal Birmingham gangs which inspired the hit BBC drama Peaky
:22:39. > :22:41.Blinders have now given rise to a new walking tour of the city. The
:22:42. > :22:45.walks run by community volunteers are looking to capitalise on the
:22:46. > :22:54.popularity of the series. Elizabeth Glinka reports.
:22:55. > :22:59.Peaky Blinders ` audiences loved the its dark cinematic style. And that's
:23:00. > :23:03.inspired Digbeth resident Rosie Pocklington to come up with a tour
:23:04. > :23:12.taking people to some of the sites that were once overrun with
:23:13. > :23:18.dangerous gangsters. This is the start of the tour. It was an
:23:19. > :23:46.incident at this pub that was reported in the press. Who were the
:23:47. > :23:51.Peaky Blinders? They had a particular way of tracing.
:23:52. > :23:54.The Peaky Blinders series set in the heart of Birmingham has been a hit
:23:55. > :23:58.with viewers pulling in 2.4 million viewers every week with much of the
:23:59. > :24:02.action taking place at the Garrison pub. Musician Danny Cannon, who can
:24:03. > :24:05.be heard singing in this scene, also advised the film makers on local
:24:06. > :24:09.details and says the drama has raised the city's profile. People
:24:10. > :24:16.were not aware of the fact that this was going on in Birmingham. It was
:24:17. > :24:22.going in Chicago and London. People knew about that. This series has
:24:23. > :24:33.shown people what it was like. This is how it was. Peaky Blinders has
:24:34. > :24:43.got people interested in this area and this period of history.
:24:44. > :24:46.The tours get underway this weekend ` and with the news that a second
:24:47. > :24:49.series has now been commissioned interest in Birmingham and its
:24:50. > :24:55.violent past looks set to rise. Elizabeth Glinka, BBC Midlands Today
:24:56. > :25:01.Birmingham. . If you've got a bonfire party to
:25:02. > :25:03.go to this weekend you'll be keen to know what the weather is going to be
:25:04. > :25:11.like. Rebecca has the forecast. know what the weather
:25:12. > :25:16.It is not the optimum weather to be heading out to a firework display.
:25:17. > :25:24.Plenty of rain. Wet and windy this weekend. Strong winds to contend
:25:25. > :25:28.with tomorrow. But conditions will be better I Sunday. This blanket of
:25:29. > :25:35.cloud has been sitting over us today. A band of rain in the centre
:25:36. > :25:43.of the region. Battles they met us until tomorrow morning. We could see
:25:44. > :25:59.20 millimetres of rainfall by tomorrow. That is helping
:26:00. > :26:14.temperatures overnight. It will be a dull, damp start to Saturday. Then
:26:15. > :26:29.we had low pressure. Rain through the day tomorrow. It will feel cold
:26:30. > :26:39.with the wind. Gasps of up to 40 mph tomorrow night. It will be wet
:26:40. > :26:42.overnight. Most of the rain will be confined to the North of the
:26:43. > :26:56.Midlands. Further South it will create up. Temperatures will fall
:26:57. > :27:00.away. A cold start to Sunday, but a much better day. The Sun will come
:27:01. > :27:11.out at times. There will be the odd shower here and there. It is staying
:27:12. > :27:12.settled three to Monday. The rain is backed by Tuesday.
:27:13. > :27:15.settled three to Monday. The Tonight's headlines from the BBC:
:27:16. > :27:18.The biggest reform to GCSE's in England for a generation ` starting
:27:19. > :27:21.with Maths and English. Patients in danger ` the hospital
:27:22. > :27:32.which failed to give a diabetic patient insulin.
:27:33. > :27:35.Congratulations to BBC Coventry and Warwickshire which won an award for
:27:36. > :27:41.their campaign following job`seekers.
:27:42. > :27:44.That was the Midlands Today. We'll be back at ten o'clock. Have a great
:27:45. > :27:49.evening. Goodbye.