:00:10. > :00:15.Breaking News first tonight, and a rail passenger has
:00:16. > :00:19.lost an arm after falling between the platform and a train
:00:20. > :00:21.as it was pulling out of a station in Worcestershire.
:00:22. > :00:24.The man was airlifted to hospital after the accident in Droitwich
:00:25. > :00:32.The train from Hereford to Birmingham was delayed for over
:00:33. > :00:34.an hour while the emergency services attended the scene.
:00:35. > :00:36.London Midland Trains, which operates the service,
:00:37. > :00:38.says a full investigation has been launched.
:00:39. > :00:43.A judge has described a paedophile from Leomington Spa as "a clear
:00:44. > :00:47.Andrew Pykett was today sentenced to 15-years in jail
:00:48. > :00:52.for abusing 10 teenagers, the youngest was just 13.
:00:53. > :00:54.Pykett groomed children online - and travelled across
:00:55. > :00:58.He was eventually stopped after he was reported to the NSPCC.
:00:59. > :01:00.Police warn there could be hundreds more victims.
:01:01. > :01:10.You may find Sarah Bishop's report upsetting:
:01:11. > :01:14.38 year old Andrew Pykett, he ran his own IT business.
:01:15. > :01:15.And used technology to find his victims then
:01:16. > :01:18.Flirty and complementary, that was how his
:01:19. > :01:28.youngest victim, who was just 13, described him.
:01:29. > :01:30.Another, who was 14 at the time, came to court to see
:01:31. > :01:38.The court heard how Andrew Pykett, who used the name
:01:39. > :01:40.English daddy online, would groom his young victims
:01:41. > :01:47.by taking them out for lunch, or a walk in the country
:01:48. > :01:53.with his chocolate Labrador and drives in his red BMW.
:01:54. > :01:54.Inevitably, he would want sex with them, sometimes
:01:55. > :01:57.it instigated after just a few hours of meeting them.
:01:58. > :01:59.Several of his victims were virgins, often he
:02:00. > :02:03.I've got 16 years service this year, and having viewed all of the
:02:04. > :02:05.material that we built this case upon, it's absolutely horrific.
:02:06. > :02:13.It's probably the worst case I've ever seen.
:02:14. > :02:15.His victims came from up and down the country.
:02:16. > :02:17.One he persuaded to film indecent images
:02:18. > :02:24.It happened while he was on police bail.
:02:25. > :02:27.As well travelling as the country to meet his young items
:02:28. > :02:30.Andrew Pykett brought several of them here to his home in
:02:31. > :02:34.One of them, who was just 14, recalls how he took her to
:02:35. > :02:37.the bedroom, tied her up and on one occasion refused to release her.
:02:38. > :02:42.She had to cut herself free, she said.
:02:43. > :02:44.She told police she thought the got the older she
:02:45. > :02:46.got the less interested Andrew Pykett was in her.
:02:47. > :02:49.She approached her 16th birthday he stopped talking
:02:50. > :02:58.It has just sort of made me depart from people in my life so I don't
:02:59. > :03:00.really have the close relationship I used
:03:01. > :03:02.to help with my family because
:03:03. > :03:05.The judge told Andrew Pykett no sentence of
:03:06. > :03:07.this Court can reflect the misery you're selfish conduct has caused.
:03:08. > :03:11.He ordered that he serve a minimum eight and a half years of his 15
:03:12. > :03:17.Well, in response to this case Warwickshire Police has set up
:03:18. > :03:23.a Major Investigation hotline and if you have concerns you can
:03:24. > :03:26.call them with any information on 01788 853981.
:03:27. > :03:30.Drayton Manor theme park is to reopen tomorrow -
:03:31. > :03:32.four days after a girl died on a water ride.
:03:33. > :03:34.The Staffordshire amusement was closed
:03:35. > :03:35.after 11-year-old Eva Jannath, from Leicester, fell
:03:36. > :03:38.from the Splash Canyon rapids while on a school trip.
:03:39. > :03:45.While the park will be open, the ride itself is to remain shut.
:03:46. > :03:47.A convicted sex offender has been jailed for life
:03:48. > :03:50.for murdering a nurse at her home in Bilston near Wolverhampton.
:03:51. > :03:52.Lisa Skidmore was strangled by Leroy Campbell from Birmingham.
:03:53. > :03:54.He'd recently been released from a 17-year prison sentence.
:03:55. > :03:56.Campbell tried to cover-up the attack by setting
:03:57. > :04:04.Hospitals across the region are dealing with a large scale
:04:05. > :04:09.cyber attacks tonight - which as you may have
:04:10. > :04:10.heard are causing chaos across the country.
:04:11. > :04:13.Nurses and doctors are finding they're unable to access
:04:14. > :04:15.Our reporter Lindsay Doyle has the latest.
:04:16. > :04:18.Lindsay - how has the West Midlands been affected?
:04:19. > :04:23.Well, it's put our hospitals on high alert tonight.
:04:24. > :04:26.As we've heard this is a malicious software which blocks access
:04:27. > :04:31.to a computer or data, and demands money to release it.
:04:32. > :04:34.Earlier I spoke to Mark Lomas a Cyber Security Expert
:04:35. > :04:36.from Probrand an IT company in Birmingham who explained
:04:37. > :04:46.The light of all the viruses that might have simply slowed a computer
:04:47. > :04:50.down all made it crashed, this type of virus actually locks your files
:04:51. > :04:53.and data and prevent you from accessing it. They demand a ransom.
:04:54. > :04:58.It actually requires you to pay some money in order to give you access to
:04:59. > :05:01.your day-to-day gain and it uses an encryption so it is buried got to
:05:02. > :05:04.We've spoken to several hospitals across the region today,
:05:05. > :05:07.the George Eliot Hospital in Nuneaton has for example
:05:08. > :05:10.cancelled a number of out patient appointments The Royal Stoke is one
:05:11. > :05:13.of many who have disabled their own systems to try and stop
:05:14. > :05:26.What they will want to do is try and quarantine and contain this
:05:27. > :05:30.infection. To ensure that it does not spread further and then they
:05:31. > :05:33.will be looking to find ways to clean their systems, remove this
:05:34. > :05:36.infection and of course restore access to the data that they have
:05:37. > :05:39.lost access to. In most cases I would expect that they would have
:05:40. > :05:43.good back-ups that they could call upon but could take some time before
:05:44. > :05:48.All of our hospitals are asking people to try and avoid A
:05:49. > :05:50.unless its life threatening, instead dial 111 for advice
:05:51. > :05:55.on what is likely to be a busy Friday night.
:05:56. > :05:57.A Black Country school has been placed into special
:05:58. > :05:59.measures by Ofsted - Inspectors say pupils pelted them
:06:00. > :06:03.Willenhall E-Act Academy has been ordered to improve
:06:04. > :06:06.after a highly critical report highlighted a catalogue of issues
:06:07. > :06:13.including a third of pupils being persistently absent.
:06:14. > :06:16.Onto the rugby and there was disappointment for Gloucester
:06:17. > :06:19.tonight as they lost in the final of the European Challenge Cup.
:06:20. > :06:26.They were beaten by Stade Francais by points to in Edinburgh.
:06:27. > :06:28.And in the football West Bromwich Albion have
:06:29. > :06:32.The defeat means the London club have now been crowned
:06:33. > :06:40.Midlands Today is back tomorrow tea time.
:06:41. > :06:48.The weather's next with Rebecca Wood, bye for now.
:06:49. > :06:57.A bit of a mixed picture to come through this week. We have had rain.
:06:58. > :07:01.Good news for the gardens. There should be some sunshine as well.
:07:02. > :07:03.Through tonight we should see some showers following on. Some clear
:07:04. > :07:08.spells developing as well but we keep a breeze so agriculture attempt
:07:09. > :07:14.to shoot at far. Quite muddy as we had to tonight. Lows of between nine
:07:15. > :07:16.and 11 Celsius. As we start the day tomorrow, pressure changes a little
:07:17. > :07:20.bit for Docklands coming from the south and west. There is a risk of a
:07:21. > :07:23.bit of an odd shower through the day stop good spells of sunshine. A very
:07:24. > :07:28.different picture to how we have been today. Fewer showers. Lots of
:07:29. > :07:32.lovely sunshine and are at average is back up to between 16 and 17
:07:33. > :07:39.Celsius for stock more information on that and a look ahead
:07:40. > :07:46.A bit of a mixed bag earlier on today, some of us were cloudy with
:07:47. > :07:52.rain. This is the view from one of our weather watchers in Cornwall.
:07:53. > :07:56.But in the Highlands of Scotland, it was completely different, find,
:07:57. > :08:02.sunny and warm. The satellite and radar picture shows the variety of
:08:03. > :08:12.weather we have had. It brightened up into the afternoon, early
:08:13. > :08:13.evening. The north-east of Scotland and England have extensive