:00:00. > :00:08.An investigation is underway into the death of a nine-year-old
:00:09. > :00:12.The pupil collapsed at the Al-Hijrah School
:00:13. > :00:19.An emergency meeting was held at the school in Bordesley Green
:00:20. > :00:22.this morning as the police and Birmingham City Council
:00:23. > :00:27.A statement from West Midlands Police said they were called
:00:28. > :00:30.at 2.20pm yesterday, following reports that
:00:31. > :00:34.The boy was rushed to Heartlands Hospital,
:00:35. > :00:38.Officers are working with the school and the council
:00:39. > :00:41.to establish the circumstances surrounding his death.
:00:42. > :00:44.Birmingham City Council, which manages Al-Hijrah,
:00:45. > :00:46.says it is supporting the boy's family along with
:00:47. > :00:50.A postmortem examination will take place to establish
:00:51. > :00:56.Phillipa Hudson, BBC Midlands Today, Birmingham.
:00:57. > :00:59.Protesters from across the Midlands have joined tens of thousands
:01:00. > :01:01.of people marching through London to complain about cuts
:01:02. > :01:07.Organisers say austerity measures are a risk to patients.
:01:08. > :01:12.They left at dawn in coaches from across the West Midlands,
:01:13. > :01:15.all heading south to make their voices heard.
:01:16. > :01:18.This is for you, this is for me, this is for my children
:01:19. > :01:20.and my grandchildren, and if we lose it,
:01:21. > :01:31.We'd just like all the services back at Stafford, really.
:01:32. > :01:39.We're just really, really upset, and we want to get our 24-hour A
:01:40. > :01:42.back, and, at the moment, we've got nothing.
:01:43. > :01:45.As they marched on Parliament Square, they joined the thousands
:01:46. > :01:49.calling for a fully-funded, publicly-owned NHS,
:01:50. > :01:53.with no cuts, no closures and no privatisation.
:01:54. > :01:55.So-called "bed-blocking" is often blamed for fuelling
:01:56. > :02:00.Figures from the King's Fund show the problem's particularly acute
:02:01. > :02:05.The resulting delays at Birmingham, Stoke-on-Trent and Coventry are some
:02:06. > :02:11.82-year-old Ken Tucker from Coventry has Dementia.
:02:12. > :02:14.His wife Christine is one of many looking after a loved one.
:02:15. > :02:17.When he came out of hospital she was there to help,
:02:18. > :02:19.but that's not the case for everybody.
:02:20. > :02:23.I do find it very lonely, and I will say this -
:02:24. > :02:29.As they took their message to Parliament, the Government has
:02:30. > :02:33.said local authorities can increase council tax by up to 3%
:02:34. > :02:37.over the next two years to help plug the social-care funding gap.
:02:38. > :02:42.And there'll be more on the NHS in tomorrow's
:02:43. > :02:44.Sunday Politics Midlands, with Patrick Burns,
:02:45. > :02:50.The family of a man missing for three months say his body has
:02:51. > :02:53.55-year-old Stephen Woolley, went missing from his home
:02:54. > :03:01.Today's football and starting with the Premier League.
:03:02. > :03:07.West Bromwich Albion lost 2-0 to Crystal Palace.
:03:08. > :03:09.In the Championship, a goal-less draw for
:03:10. > :03:14.Wolves lost 2-1 to Reading leaving them only one point clear
:03:15. > :03:19.It was their fifth successive defeat!
:03:20. > :03:25.In League One, Shrewsbury Town's home tie was held up for 20
:03:26. > :03:28.minutes following an injury to Coventry's Andy Rose.
:03:29. > :03:30.He was stretchered off and taken to hospital.
:03:31. > :03:37.Still in League One, Port Vale drew 1-1 at home to Southend.
:03:38. > :03:43.In League Two, a goal-less draw for Cheltenham Town
:03:44. > :03:51.In the National League, a goal-less draw for Solihull Moors at Dover.
:03:52. > :03:55.Rugby, and in the Premiership, Wasps convincingly beat Bath by 24-3.
:03:56. > :04:00.Gloucester lost to Harlequins by 27-30.
:04:01. > :04:02.Just before we take a look at the weather,
:04:03. > :04:04.the Environment Agency closed the floodgate at Upton-upon-Severn
:04:05. > :04:07.in Worcestershire last night because of rising river levels.
:04:08. > :04:17.Low pressure in charge in our weather over the next few days,
:04:18. > :04:21.In fact, I think we saw the best of the bright weather today.
:04:22. > :04:24.As we move through this evening and overnight,
:04:25. > :04:27.You could hear the odd rumble of thunder for a time,
:04:28. > :04:29.but becoming increasingly dry into the early hours.
:04:30. > :04:32.Overnight lows between three and five Celsius.
:04:33. > :04:37.I think we have got a brief dry interlude before we start to see
:04:38. > :04:40.this band of low cloud and rain pushing up from the south-west.
:04:41. > :04:42.Now, that could be slightly wintry over high ground,
:04:43. > :04:45.turning increasingly patchy into the afternoon.
:04:46. > :04:47.Temperatures reaching a maximum of eight Celsius.
:04:48. > :04:53.remaining unsettled through next week.
:04:54. > :05:17.Hello. I could have put almost anything in this sphere today such
:05:18. > :05:18.was the