01/06/2014

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:00:00. > :00:08.Good evening. stories on the BBC News Channel.

:00:09. > :00:11.A woman is in a "stable and comfortable" condition in hospital

:00:12. > :00:14.tonight after being severely mauled by two dogs in Herefordshire.

:00:15. > :00:19.She was attacked by a bull mastiff and a Staffordshire bull terrier.

:00:20. > :00:26.It was on a busy street that two dogs attacked

:00:27. > :00:31.The woman was named locally as Teresa Stinton.

:00:32. > :00:37.Even if they've got a dog like that in the house, it should

:00:38. > :00:40.have been muzzled if they know people are going to that house.

:00:41. > :00:50.Yeah. She was just dropping a bag of clothes off.

:00:51. > :00:56.A cyclist was injured as she tried to help add another woman bitten.

:00:57. > :01:00.The attack went on for 15 minutes before a man intervened.

:01:01. > :01:02.Robert Hirschmann, who rescued Teresa, wouldn't be interviewed.

:01:03. > :01:04.But he said he couldn't believe people stood and watched.

:01:05. > :01:08.His mother said she was disgusted, but she's proud of her son.

:01:09. > :01:11.He just talked calmly to the dog and he got the dog off.

:01:12. > :01:15.Because, according to him and my other son, no one was helping

:01:16. > :01:17.the woman and the attack went on for about 15 minutes.

:01:18. > :01:22.Police have appealed for anyone who may have filmed

:01:23. > :01:28.It may have been that people weren't sure what to do, how to do it.

:01:29. > :01:31.What I would like to do is appeal for anybody

:01:32. > :01:33.who did see it to come forward to us.

:01:34. > :01:36.It's quite possible someone has captured this on a mobile phone

:01:37. > :01:40.or other device and it would be really helpful to us to see that.

:01:41. > :01:44.Two men are still in custody tonight and Teresa Stinton, a mother of two,

:01:45. > :01:50.The family of a young woman killed by a lorry driver

:01:51. > :01:53.as he used his mobile phone have called for tougher sentences for

:01:54. > :01:57.Ian Glover was browsing sexually explicit websites

:01:58. > :02:05.Tending a garden created in memory of her daughter helps

:02:06. > :02:10.Laura Jane Thomas, a teaching assistant from Great

:02:11. > :02:14.Hayward in South Staffordshire, was killed last July.

:02:15. > :02:19.She was five foot, blonde and really energetic.

:02:20. > :02:24.She's just missed, missed so much now.

:02:25. > :02:28.She and her fiancee Lewis were off to the seaside for the day

:02:29. > :02:33.Laura was killed at the end of this stretch of road, near Shrewsbury.

:02:34. > :02:36.The lorry crashed into their stationary car,

:02:37. > :02:40.which had broken down, propelling it into Laura as she stood

:02:41. > :02:45.On Friday a court was told how the lorry driver,

:02:46. > :02:48.Ian Glover from Birmingham, had been looking at images

:02:49. > :02:51.on a sexually explicit dating site moments before the crash.

:02:52. > :02:54.He pleaded guilty and was jailed for five years.

:02:55. > :02:57.He will only serve two and a half, possibly.

:02:58. > :02:59.If it's five years, it should be five years.

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

:03:05. > :03:07.The family want tougher action too against motorists

:03:08. > :03:14.In November 2011, 13`year`old Hope Fennell died in Kings Heath,

:03:15. > :03:18.in Birmingham, run over by a lorry driver sending text messages.

:03:19. > :03:22.By making and selling friendship bracelets,

:03:23. > :03:26.Laura's family have raised ?3,000 for charity, keeping alive the

:03:27. > :03:35.memory of a girl whose death, said the judge, was utterly avoidable.

:03:36. > :03:38.A neurosurgeon is claiming that the footballer Jeff Astle died

:03:39. > :03:42.from a brain condition normally linked with boxers and that he

:03:43. > :03:46.Dr Willie Stewart from Glasgow University says he believes

:03:47. > :03:49.the England and West Bromwich striker was killed by chronic

:03:50. > :03:54.His family have been campaigning for research to be carried out

:03:55. > :03:59.A portrait of the Staffordshire charity fundraiser Stephen Sutton

:04:00. > :04:02.has failed to sell at auction. Bidding closed yesterday on the

:04:03. > :04:05.drawing of the 19`year`old whose funeral was on Friday. But the

:04:06. > :04:09.portrait failed to meet its reserve price of ?7,500. It'll now be given

:04:10. > :04:12.to the Teenage Cancer Trust to be sold at a later date.

:04:13. > :04:15.Time now to bring you the weather forecast.

:04:16. > :04:28.We are losing the dry weather now, it will be replaced by an unsettled

:04:29. > :04:32.picture. Tonight, a weather front coming in across the West it will

:04:33. > :04:37.start to produce heavy outbreaks of rain overnight and hill fog as

:04:38. > :04:41.well. The minimum temperature no lower than 10 Celsius. A wet start

:04:42. > :04:47.to the day as the weather front works its way in producing showers

:04:48. > :04:50.of rain and heavy bursts into the afternoon. The temperatures not as

:04:51. > :04:53.good as today. A gentle southerly breeze with highs of 18.

:04:54. > :04:56.More in the national forecast in a moment, and Midlands Today is

:04:57. > :04:58.back throughout Breakfast here on BBC One.

:04:59. > :05:14.Hope you had a nice weekend, it was a warm and sunny one across central

:05:15. > :05:17.and eastern areas. A different story out west with signs of change. It

:05:18. > :05:23.will be a different week this week with some rain around. Some sunshine

:05:24. > :05:25.too. For a time, it will feel a good