16/01/2017 Midlands Today

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Good evening. BBC Two.

One of the survivors of the Tunisia massacre in 2015 has told the BBC

she doubts anyone will ever truly be held accountable for what happened.

The inquests onto the deaths of the 30 British tourists

who were killed in the gun attack opened today.

Alison Caine from Staffordshire survived, after she and her husband

barricaded the door to their hotel room and hid for 3.5 hours.

We started hearing screams. People were running.

Baron said, just run as fast as you can and get to the room.

The gunfire was very rapid, there were grenades going off.

Alison and Baron Caine were just four days into their summer holiday.

Their instincts to barricade themselves inside their room

at the Imperial Hotel probably saved their lives.

We had a knock on the door, a man with a Tunisian accent said he

At that point we looked at each other and we just

thought, this is it. We're going to die.

Outside the hotel, Sayfedeen Rezgee pulled

a Kalashnikov from a parasol he'd been carrying and killed 38 people.

So-called Islamic State claimed responsibilty.

It took the authorities roughly 40 minutes to get to us.

Among the dead - Joel Richards, his uncle Adrian Evans and grandad

Patrick Evans from Wednesbury, along with Sue Davey from Tamworth.

Previous years, there has been four guards on the front gate.

There was one sitting on the back gate to the beach, that year, there

was one guard on the front gate and no other guards.

The inquests will look at what, if anything, the UK government

and travel companies knew about the risk of an attack

Three months earlier, 22 people were killed in an attack

on the Bardo National Museum in Tunis.

Thomson's parent company, TUI, has told the BBC it's:

"co-operating fully to help ensure the tragic

deaths are thoroughly investigated - the relevant facts determined

18 months on, Alison is still receiving counselling.

I have never felt fear like it in my life and I never want to again.

I think that's one of the problems, trying to move on from this,

you are frightened you are going to be in that situation again.

The Imperial Hotel is now closed - the beach deserted.

Alison says she's not confident the inquests will give her

Four teenagers have been found guilty of wounding -

and conspiracy to cause damage - after stones were thrown

A woman in her seventies was left with a fractured skull

after the stone came through the window of the taxi

she was travelling in, on the Bristol Road on the 25th

The boys who cannot be named for legal reasons

It could have caused death, it was that serious,

that close, but like I said, injuries do heal but it's

the mental torture after, to have that confidence again to go

into a cab, will that happen again to us?

Around 300 people took part in a protest against cuts

to disability services, put forward by

The authority needs to make total savings of ?76 million across its

But campaigners say some of the city's most vulnerable

citizens will be affected, including those with mental health

Six workers at a logistics firm in Staffordshire have

been taken to hospital, with suspected carbon

Paramedics were called to Kuehne and Nagel in Draycott in the Clay,

near Ashbourne, just before 1pm today.

Two women and two men were taken to the Queen's Hospital in Burton,

another woman and man were taken to the Royal Derby Hospital.

A caterer has stopped delivering sandwiches to patients

at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and the Princes Royal in Telford,

because managers have asked for more time to settle the bill.

BBC Radio Shropshire has learnt that the Trust

which runs both sites, is asking suppliers to wait

Our reporter Ben Godfrey is in Telford for us now.

So, what's happened with this food supplier?

It's not often you're discussing sandwiches

and the NHS in the same breath but here at the Princess Royal

Hospital, patients are going without them

because the Trust can't pay for them - at least at the moment,

such are the financial constraints they're bearing.

Last autumn, the Trust was forecasting it would be in debt

to the tune of ?8 million by April this year.

So now, you have a sandwich-making firm - refusing to wait till the end

of March for payment - that's when the Princess Royal

and Royal Shrewsbury Hospitals would prefer to pay for the catering.

The Chief Executive of the NHS Trust, Simon Wright,

a man perhaps more used to discussing the future of A

provision in Shropshire, is tonight reassuring patients that there'll be

"increased availability of toast, yoghurts and fruit".

Yes, he says, suppliers have been asked to accept new terms of payment

because of additional pressures they are facing - and that's even

after cutting spending on agency staff, for example.

But he adds this is a temporary issue with sandwich supplies -

and hot meals are available on wards as an alternative.

If you were hoping for a sandwich in Telford or Shrewsbury tonight, think

again. Thank you. A third of Coventry's bus lanes

were opened up to ordinary traffic today to see if the measure

will help reduce congestion. The council's starting

a six month pilot scheme, and also hopes it might cut

the pollution caused Bus operators fear it will be harder

to stick to their timetables and taxi drivers are also

concerned. Now there are "rail pastors" -

volunteers who will accompany the police to offer help to those

in distress across the rail network. Last year British Transport Officers

in the West Midlands were called to 460 incidents near railways,

involving people with mental health problems -

and to 21 suspected suicides. They spent 26 days responding

to incidents of self harm or suicide At Stourbridge junction journeys

beginning and ending, lives intersecting.

Not everyone, though, has a place Just have to look

after people, really. It's the lonely, the lost

and the desperate the rail We've had some excellent training

from the Samaritans. They told us how to speak to people

and what to say and more And with training, I would feel

quite confident trying Like street pastors already

established in many midlands towns and cities, the rail pastors

are local church volunteers working some sort of partnership,

that its community feeling in basis and the rail pastors,

you can come in the eyes and ears of British Transport Police

we are not available, to actually interject

and ease any issues. Is not just about the distressed

and depressed, though. With acts as drastic as suicide,

there are consequences for many. It's absolutely devastating,

not just for the family, the person that has undertaken

the act, but for station staff, drivers, senior

conductors and people that Heading to Birmingham's Snow Hill

station tonight, there is a welcome If they want to help people, it is

good. A lot of people are depressed and if someone is there to talk to

them, it is nice. When you see please, if you scared but with these

people, you will be more comfortable to talk to them. Police reckon there

could be 80 potential life-saving interventions last year. The rail

pastors aim to cast the net wider still.

Finally, proud parents Emily and Tommy have been

showing off their daughter, Darcey, today, the baby born

in the back of a police car last week, because of the snow.

The couple from Stone were on their way to the hospital

when their car broke down - and they had to be

As soon as I seen that police car, it's, "Ah... Yes!

"We might get some proper assistance."

But I was hoping they'd get us to the hospital

That's all from me, have a good night - I'll leave

Good evening. What a dark and dingy day. You would not want to get out

of bed let alone walk to the bus stop. A gloomy day through much of

the region. This is how it is looking. Most will have to wait

until the weekend for brighter conditions. It will turn colder. We

are under a massive cloud, hill fog across the spine of the region and

spots of rain towards the north-west. Temperatures between

three and five Celsius. A cloudy day tomorrow but drier than this

morning. Patchy rain to the north-west. A few flickers of

brightness but generally, a dull day. A light Southern League

release. Tomorrow, a laden cutting across the south-east dividing us

from the cloudy conditions. Fairly widespread frost. Otherwise, cloudy

and mild. A dry night tomorrow. With the dry day but a cold one.

Temperatures rising to six and seven Celsius. The lingering front across

us will finally move South. High pressure still dominating. Still

caught in the clutches of the cloud on Thursday and Friday. The national

forecast is next. perhaps a little milder. If you like

the mild weather, you'll have to head elsewhere in the country. Find

out more in the national weather forecast. Our weather is going

against normal expectations this week. In Highland Scotland some snow

to be seen on the hills. Temperatures as high as 12 Celsius

today. Over the next few days the coldest air is in the far south-east

of England where there is sunshine to be had. Four or five Celsius in

Kent. Differences remain over the next few days and here is why. I

pressure in control of the weather. Some clear a continental air, but

coming into Scotland from the Atlantic plenty of clouds around.

Outbreaks of rain through Scotland and Northern Ireland overnight,

patchy drizzle into parts of England and Wales, but where you've got

cloud the temperatures are holding up. Clearer skies in parts of

south-east