A Police Officer has been charged with the murder of the former footballer Dalian Atkinson, who died after being tasered. The ex aston villa striker was restrained by officers at his Fathers House in telford, in 2016. A second officer, also from west Mercia Police force, has been charged with assault causing actual bodily harm. Both appeared in court on thursday, as our correspondent sian lloyd reports. Dalian atkinsons talents brought him some memorable goals. This strike clinched him goal of the season in 1993. His career spanned 15 years, including four seasons with aston villa in the 1990s. But three years ago, police were called to his fathers home near telford. A taser was discharged and Dalian Atkinson was restrained. He died shortly afterwards following a cardiac arrest. What happened there was investigated by the police watchdog. Following that independent inquiry, two west mercia Police Officers, whose identities are being protected, appeared in court today. Both were charged
The house of commons has elected sir Lindsay Hoyle as its new speaker, succeeding john bercow. Sir lindsay originally a labour mp was formerly Deputy Speaker and he secured a significant majority in the final round of voting. Our chief Political Correspondent vicki young reports. Were going to be hearing a lot more of this mans voice in the coming months as he oversees the next chapter in these tumultuous political times. According to parliamentary tradition, sir Lindsay Hoyle had to be dragged to the speakers chair where he made this promise. I will be neutral, i will be transparent, i think this house, we can do more to ensure that that transparency continues. His family were watching from the Public Gallery and he spoke of their heartache over the death of his 28 year old daughter. My daughter natalie, i wish she could have been here. We all miss her as a family, none more so than her mum. Ive got to say, she was everything to all of us, she will always be missed but will always be
The Company Whirlpool has been criticised for the time its taken to deal with potentially dangerous tumble dryers that have been linked to a spate of fires. Mps on the Business Select Committee say its disgraceful that some customers whove been the victims of fires have been made to sign non disclosure agreements to get compensation from the company. Our personal finance correspondent Simon Gompertz reports. Ive got some washing for you. Caught up in the four year process so far of whirlpool sorting out its danger dryers, stevie jo from west london battled to get hers replaced, then found even the replacement was one of the models at risk of catching fire. Its scary to think that theyve taken so long to sort this problem out. Eventually, after hounding them, i received a free of charge replacement. I checked online to make sure that it wasnt on the recall list, after all the hassle that id had. Lo and behold, it was on the recall list. This has been the fear a spate of fires like one i
Is at this time of yearand to think about your dog is at this time of year and to build in contingencies to look after the dog. Things such as building a den for your dog, somewhere dark and quiet, where the dog can hide. Close your curtains. Put your tv up, put your favourite album on and turn it up. Anything to distract the dog from what is going on. Even in the home, they are still alarmed . Absolutely. Ever so loud noises, they are unnatural sounds for an animal and oui unnatural sounds for an animal and our dogs pick up on it. In the worst case scenario, a dog can be so fearful, it will never work again. For us, that represents a cost of £56,000 to train and care for the dog. For the blind person affected by firework, that can mean. You cannot put a cost on that. In terms of the number of fireworks displays, it seems to go on a long time, people need to plan. We realise that people want to celebrate and use fireworks for their celebrations but what we really would encourage peopl
Which killed at least 13 people. No group has yet claimed responsibility for the deaths. The online Property Rental company, airbnb, is to ban bookings by guests who intend to use the accomodation for house parties. It follows the deaths of five people in san francisco, where a party ended in a shootout on halloween night. The company says screening of guests will be improved, the First Western ever to be made will be shown in public for the first time in more than a century. The screening will take place where it was filmed, not in hollywood, but in the north west of england. Heres colin paterson. Kidnapping by indians in 1899 the worlds First Western, according to the british film institute, and it was filmed in blackburn. In northgate, in the centre of blackburn on the site that they worked from, the year that they made the First Western kidnapping by indians. Mitchell and kenyons documentaries captured everyday life, including in their hometown, but they also liked to experiment. I