HERE'S your evening news round-up for the Black Country and North Worcestershire.

The plight of a Brierley Hill teenager in a race against time for a bone marrow transplant touched so many hearts that the number of people from the area stepping forward to be donors has soared.

Leukaemia sufferer Omar Al-Shaikh's only hope for life is to find a suitable person from his mixed heritage background with matching bone marrow to donate their stem cells for transplant.

And, since his life-or-death battle was highlighted by the News Group, the number of people from Birmingham and the Black Country signing up as possible donors with the Anthony Nolan register has been two and a half times the normal rate.

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A Dudley TV extra and author has added horror movie director to his CV.

John R Walker, who has had walk-on parts on most of TV's big name shows such as Corrie, Emmerdale and Midsomer Murders, has released his first movie, a horror based in the American village of Amityville.

The film, The Amityville Playhouse, is now playing at Showcase Cinemas in Manchester, Liverpool, Derby, Leeds, Bristol and London and is also available from DVD outlets.

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A senior doctor usually deployed to major disasters was called to Worcester's hospital for the first time in its history as patients including one with chest pains lay in pain on hospital trolleys.

Ambulance bosses dispatched a medical incident officer (MIO), a senior consultant doctor, to Worcestershire Royal Hospital last Friday evening.

The MIO is only called to major incidents which can include serious car accidents involving multiple casualties, explosions and large fires.

The surge in patients at Worcester began at around 3pm and only by 12.30am the following morning did they begin to get patients off the trolleys and either discharge them or admit them into beds.

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