Avon and Somerset Police has said sorry after a Weston man took a fatal overdose - and officers didn't go to his flat.

An ambulance crew couldn't force entry after Christopher Walker called 999 in February 2009 - because police had downgraded the incident's seriousness.

An inquest said the police's failure to attend - and the delay - had not had any impact on his chances of survival.

But Assistant Chief Constable Andy Bangham says the force should have done more, and that they've apologised privately to Mr Walker's mother.