Boy collapses waiting for bus

A bus company has apologised to a boy who collapsed with hypothermia after waiting more than an hour for a bus that never turned up.

Martyn Harris, 12, who was trying to get to school, was taken ill at a stop in Meadowsweet Avenue in Birmingham on Wednesday morning.

The youngster, who is from the Kings Norton area of the city, was helped to hospital by two off-duty nurses.

Birmingham-based Travel West Midlands said it was holding an inquiry into why the Number 84 service failed to arrive.

A Travel West Midlands spokesman said: "The company operates 1,900 buses every day of the week and we try very hard to maintain our timetables.

"But there are issues that happen, accidents and breakdowns, that occasionally do affect the service we try to provide."

Martyn's father Richard had been told by staff at Birmingham Children's Hospital that his son fainted from mild hypothermia.