01/06/2014

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:00:00. > :00:09.Good evening. back with the late news

:00:10. > :00:11.Three women have been treated in hospital following

:00:12. > :00:16.It's believed they were mauled by a bull mastiff

:00:17. > :00:19.One of the dogs, the mastiff, died at the scene.

:00:20. > :00:24.It was on a busy street that two dogs attacked

:00:25. > :00:28.A cyclist was injured as she tried to help

:00:29. > :00:36.The attack went on for 15 minutes, before a man intervened.

:00:37. > :00:39.This was so shocking that some people were too frightened to help.

:00:40. > :00:42.But at least two women, including a cyclist who was just

:00:43. > :00:45.passing by, stopped. The two women tried to pull the dogs off.

:00:46. > :00:48.They were both quite badly bitten and were taken to hospital.

:00:49. > :00:51.But the first woman, who was so badly mauled,

:00:52. > :00:55.had to be airlifted to hospital and she's still in a serious condition.

:00:56. > :00:58.The woman was named locally as Teresa Stinton.

:00:59. > :01:08.Even if they've got a dog like that in the house, it should

:01:09. > :01:12.have been muzzled if they know people are going to that house.

:01:13. > :01:15.Yeah. She was just dropping a bag of clothes off.

:01:16. > :01:23.Robert Hirschmann, who rescued Teresa, wouldn't be interviewed.

:01:24. > :01:26.But he said he couldn't believe people stood and watched.

:01:27. > :01:31.His mother said she was disgusted, but she's proud of her son.

:01:32. > :01:36.He just talked calmly to the dog and he got the dog off.

:01:37. > :01:42.Because, according to him and my other son, no one was helping

:01:43. > :01:47.the woman and the attack went on for about 15 minutes.

:01:48. > :01:49.Police have appealed for anyone who may have filmed

:01:50. > :01:56.It may have been that people weren't sure what to do, how to do it.

:01:57. > :01:59.What I would like to do is appeal for anybody

:02:00. > :02:01.who did see it to come forward to us.

:02:02. > :02:04.It's quite possible someone has captured this on a mobile phone

:02:05. > :02:08.or other device and it would be really helpful to us to see that.

:02:09. > :02:12.Two men are still in custody tonight and Teresa Stinton, a mother of two,

:02:13. > :02:17.A 45`year`old man has been charged with murder after

:02:18. > :02:23.Police found Mark Everard on Bishop Road in Chell Heath on Friday night.

:02:24. > :02:26.A post mortem examination found that the 48`year`old died

:02:27. > :02:31.Steven Mutch, who's also from Bishop Road, has been charged

:02:32. > :02:36.He's due before magistrates tomorrow.

:02:37. > :02:38.The family of a young woman killed by a lorry driver

:02:39. > :02:42.as he used his mobile phone have called for tougher sentences for

:02:43. > :02:47.Ian Glover was jailed for five years but could be out in half that.

:02:48. > :02:52.He was browsing sexually explicit websites when the crash happened,

:02:53. > :02:57.killing Laura Thomas, aged 20. Giles Latcham reports.

:02:58. > :03:00.Tending a garden created in memory of her daughter helps

:03:01. > :03:05.Laura Jane Thomas, a teaching assistant from Great

:03:06. > :03:09.Hayward in South Staffordshire, was killed last July.

:03:10. > :03:15.She was five foot, blonde and really energetic.

:03:16. > :03:19.She's just missed, missed so much now.

:03:20. > :03:23.She and her fiancee Lewis were off to the seaside for the day

:03:24. > :03:27.Laura was killed at the end of this stretch of road, near Shrewsbury.

:03:28. > :03:30.The lorry crashed into their stationary car,

:03:31. > :03:33.which had broken down, propelling it into Laura as she stood

:03:34. > :03:40.On Friday a court was told how the lorry driver,

:03:41. > :03:42.Ian Glover from Birmingham, had been looking at images

:03:43. > :03:46.on a sexually explicit dating site moments before the crash.

:03:47. > :03:48.He pleaded guilty and was jailed for five years.

:03:49. > :03:51.He will only serve two and a half, possibly.

:03:52. > :03:54.If it's five years, it should be five years.

:03:55. > :03:59.Other countries have got far sterner sentences than this.

:04:00. > :04:03.If you take a life, you should be responsible for that.

:04:04. > :04:06.The family want tougher action too against motorists

:04:07. > :04:12.In November 2011, 13`year`old Hope Fennell died in Kings Heath,

:04:13. > :04:16.in Birmingham, run over by a lorry driver sending text messages.

:04:17. > :04:20.By making and selling friendship bracelets,

:04:21. > :04:24.Laura's family have raised ?3,000 for charity, keeping alive the

:04:25. > :04:35.memory of a girl whose death, said the judge, was utterly avoidable.

:04:36. > :04:38.A neurosurgeon has claimed that the footballer Jeff Astle died

:04:39. > :04:40.from a sports`related condition, rather than Alzheimer's,

:04:41. > :04:44.Dr Willie Stewart says that after carrying out an examination

:04:45. > :04:46.of the former England and West Bromwich Albion striker's

:04:47. > :04:49.brain, he believes the 59`year`old was killed

:04:50. > :04:53.by chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE.

:04:54. > :04:58.His family want more research to be carried out

:04:59. > :05:04.A portrait of the Staffordshire charity fundraiser Stephen Sutton

:05:05. > :05:09.Bidding closed yesterday on the drawing of the 19`year`old

:05:10. > :05:18.But the portrait failed to meet its reserve price of ?7,5000.

:05:19. > :05:21.But the portrait failed to meet its reserve price of ?7,500.

:05:22. > :05:24.Let's get the weather now. Here's Sara Blizzard.

:05:25. > :05:26.Good evening. Well, it's been a lovely day today.

:05:27. > :05:29.The cloud did start to increase a little bit more through

:05:30. > :05:32.the afternoon and it's going to continue to do so overnight.

:05:33. > :05:34.Introducing a small amount of showery rain, initially,

:05:35. > :05:39.And, with all the cloud, there is a chance of some hill fog, too.

:05:40. > :05:42.It's a mild night, the temperatures dropping no lower than 10 Celsius.

:05:43. > :05:45.Tomorrow, that weather front works eastwards, continuing to produce

:05:46. > :05:51.The odd heavy burst into the afternoon.

:05:52. > :05:53.And the temperatures not as today, but still reasonable

:05:54. > :05:56.for the time of year, certainly. A maximum of 18 Celsius.

:05:57. > :06:13.Hello. Most of us have enjoyed at least one day of lovely weather this

:06:14. > :06:19.weekend. That weather will be harder to come by this week. It has been up

:06:20. > :06:25.and down. Yes, rain or showers at times. Drier, sunny weather, turning

:06:26. > :06:29.cooler. Signs are that by the end of the week temperatures will recover.

:06:30. > :06:34.We have seen rain today in Glasgow, Edinburgh, western fringes of the UK

:06:35. > :06:39.too. The cloud will spread east overnight, with further outbreaks of

:06:40. > :06:43.rain into the west. Temperatures are in double figures as Monday begins.

:06:44. > :06:45.We get the sunshine - a lot of cloud around.