04/03/2017 Midlands Today

An investigation is underway into the death of a nine-year-old

The pupil collapsed at the Al-Hijrah School

An emergency meeting was held at the school in Bordesley Green

this morning as the police and Birmingham City Council

A statement from West Midlands Police said they were called

at 2.20pm yesterday, following reports that

The boy was rushed to Heartlands Hospital,

Officers are working with the school and the council

to establish the circumstances surrounding his death.

Birmingham City Council, which manages Al-Hijrah,

says it is supporting the boy's family along with

A postmortem examination will take place to establish

Phillipa Hudson, BBC Midlands Today, Birmingham.

Protesters from across the Midlands have joined tens of thousands

of people marching through London to complain about cuts

Organisers say austerity measures are a risk to patients.

They left at dawn in coaches from across the West Midlands,

all heading south to make their voices heard.

This is for you, this is for me, this is for my children

and my grandchildren, and if we lose it,

We'd just like all the services back at Stafford, really.

We're just really, really upset, and we want to get our 24-hour A

back, and, at the moment, we've got nothing.

As they marched on Parliament Square, they joined the thousands

calling for a fully-funded, publicly-owned NHS,

with no cuts, no closures and no privatisation.

So-called "bed-blocking" is often blamed for fuelling

Figures from the King's Fund show the problem's particularly acute

The resulting delays at Birmingham, Stoke-on-Trent and Coventry are some

82-year-old Ken Tucker from Coventry has Dementia.

His wife Christine is one of many looking after a loved one.

When he came out of hospital she was there to help,

but that's not the case for everybody.

I do find it very lonely, and I will say this -

As they took their message to Parliament, the Government has

said local authorities can increase council tax by up to 3%

over the next two years to help plug the social-care funding gap.

And there'll be more on the NHS in tomorrow's

Sunday Politics Midlands, with Patrick Burns,

The family of a man missing for three months say his body has

55-year-old Stephen Woolley, went missing from his home

Today's football and starting with the Premier League.

West Bromwich Albion lost 2-0 to Crystal Palace.

In the Championship, a goal-less draw for

Wolves lost 2-1 to Reading leaving them only one point clear

It was their fifth successive defeat!

In League One, Shrewsbury Town's home tie was held up for 20

minutes following an injury to Coventry's Andy Rose.

He was stretchered off and taken to hospital.

Still in League One, Port Vale drew 1-1 at home to Southend.

In League Two, a goal-less draw for Cheltenham Town

In the National League, a goal-less draw for Solihull Moors at Dover.

Rugby, and in the Premiership, Wasps convincingly beat Bath by 24-3.

Gloucester lost to Harlequins by 27-30.

Just before we take a look at the weather,

the Environment Agency closed the floodgate at Upton-upon-Severn

in Worcestershire last night because of rising river levels.

Low pressure in charge in our weather over the next few days,

In fact, I think we saw the best of the bright weather today.

As we move through this evening and overnight,

You could hear the odd rumble of thunder for a time,

but becoming increasingly dry into the early hours.

Overnight lows between three and five Celsius.

I think we have got a brief dry interlude before we start to see

this band of low cloud and rain pushing up from the south-west.

Now, that could be slightly wintry over high ground,

turning increasingly patchy into the afternoon.

Temperatures reaching a maximum of eight Celsius.

remaining unsettled through next week.

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