17/02/2017 Midlands Today

A mother has spoken of her horror after a dog attacked

her four-year-old son as they were walking

Gemma Bloor, from Stoke-on-Trent, says her child will be scarred

Staffordshire Police recorded 325 dog attacks last year

in which someone was injured, although they stress the vast

Gemma Bloor's son Jonathan was attacked by a dog

Her daughter was terrified as it happened.

Chelsea were screaming, mum, he has bitt him,

Chelsea were screaming, mum, he has bit him,

Jonathan turned around to look at me, there was blood

I noticed a piece of his bottom lip dangling down.

This is Jonathan in hospital after Sunday's attack.

The plastic surgeon who treated him said the effects

His lip will never fully realign properly because where the dog has

bit him, it has torn a chunk out of it and obviously

Jonathan is recovering at home with his sister and baby brother.

Gemma believes the dog was a brown Staffordshire bull

The attack happened here on public footpath, and the dog

He is described as a white man in his late teens or early 20s,

he was wearing grey tracksuit bottoms and a cap.

Police say attacks are serious and rare but need to

This is an isolated incident, we do have some more

of the low-level minor injuries reported to us that

But this extent and level of injury is very uncommon.

Worried someone else might be attacked, Gemma has this message

You don't know what damage you've done to my son,

I don't know what damage you've done to my son that could remain

Not only has he got that scar, he may be terrified

Joanme Writtle, BBC Midlands Today, Stoke-on-Trent.

A BBC Midlands Today investigation has discovered that personal contact

details of more than a hundred people have been published

on a "right wing" web page without permission.

It invites users to add information to expose individuals they describe

West Midlands Police say they're trying to get the page closed down.

Doug Gunter has just learned his photo and address have

been published on a social network without his consent.

He is listed under this, menacing banner.

Labelled an antifascist and neocommunist whose ideas

will bring about the end of the country.

It stems from a disagreement I was having with somebody online,

it was so long ago I don't remember the disagreement.

In a fit of peak they shot my details in as being a dangerous

antifascist who should get what they deserve, regardless

We've investigated the right wing web page which dates back

Dozens of people appear and names are still being added.

Addresses, mobile phone numbers now in the public domain.

Geoff Dexter is another target, a campaigner for the rights

of the lesbian, gay, by and transgender community.

He has reported it to the police as a hate crime.

The address that's been published may well be a student address,

and that could put other people at risk.

It has given me a greater determination to show that this kind

We set up a profile on this network in order to message the one contact

listed against this group to put them suggestions versus inciting

hatred, that potentially it is in breach of data protection laws.

It may be difficult to identify the person, if the person

and the server technology they're using it outside of the UK.

Following our investigation, West Midlands Police's

counterterrorism unit told us they're looking to of this web

And they'll be contacting those names to provide

Four men are being treated in hospital after suffering

from carbon monoxide poisoning while in a Black Country factory.

Paramedics were called to a site on Powke Lane in Cradley Heath early

this morning to reports of men suffering from dizziness,

The workers were using forklift trucks and the ventilation

A 14-year-old boy has been charged over a series of stun gun attacks

The teenager's accused of giving women a shock using electrical

devices before attempting to steal their cars.

The incidents all happened over a four day period earlier this month

The four time Olympic gold medallist Sir Mo Farah says tomorrow's

Indoor Grand Prix in Birmingham will be his last race

The runner's been a regular visitor to the city,

Tomorrow he'll compete in the 5,000 meters.

But, after the world championships in London this summer,

he'll leave the track behind to focus on the road.

I think this will be my last track race indoors.

As I said, for me, it all started in London 2012, my life has changed

For me, it wouldn't be fair to continue on.

I would like to be able to hang my spikes up at that point.

On to rugby, and in the Premiership it was superb night

for Gloucester who beat Saracens 31-23 at Kingsholm.

Narrowly ahead at half time the Cherry and Whites extended

their lead when Jeremy Thrush intercepted and scored

Saracens fought back but with just a few minutes left the result

Richard Hibbard with the try to give Gloucester a famous win.

I'll leave you with the weather from Rebecca.

Well, it certainly wasn't a bad start to the day.

We did have some breaks in the cloud.

We will see more of that as we head through the weekend,

but we are also steadily starting to get the first signs of spring

and our temperatures are only going to help it feel a little

Now through this weekend, lots of cloud.

We're also going to see a touch of drizzle,

particularly over the tops of the Staffordshire Moorlands

tonight, but for the south, we're going to keep the cloud.

A few holes in it where we could get some mist and fog patches

developing, but the temperatures between five and six,

Not a cold start to the day either, but we've still got this weather

We'll start to get a few showers from that through the end

of the day tomorrow, but a dry start.

There will be some holes in the cloud.

They will be few and far between, but where we get those

with the warmer air over the top of us, temperatures will start

We could see a few showers across the North Midlands,

so Staffordshire and Shropshire, but temperatures pushing up

There's more to come through Sunday as well with perhaps

part of next week, we could see 16 Celsius in a few spots. Here is knit

with the National output. We have turned things around in the

space of a week, with a more springlike feel out there. Some

places may get as high as 17 Celsius on Monday. That is the exception,

and most of us won't see that. Plenty of cloud throughout this

weekend. It is already producing some outbreaks of rain in western

and northern parts overnight will stop not amounting to too much,

affecting western Scotland later in the night. Early rain in Northern

Ireland looks to pull away quite quickly in the morning, spreading

south through