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The NHS mental health trust that failed to investigate | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
The BBC has seen the result of an official investigation. | :00:10. | :00:19. | |
It blames a failure of leadership at Southern Health. | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
Connor Sparrowhawk had learning disabilities. | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
Now his mother says heads should roll. | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
It's a total scandal, that report, and I just think... | :00:32. | :00:33. | |
The trust involved disputes the findings of the report. | :00:34. | :00:45. | |
?50 million set aside for the flood victims - | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
new severe weather warnings for northern England and Scotland. | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
The city where Syria's conflict began is back | :00:54. | :00:55. | |
Rebel fighters and their families are allowed to leave. | :00:56. | :01:07. | |
A cut price Christmas getaway - motoring experts say it could be | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
The Orkney and Shetland MP Alistair Carmichael survives a legal | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
challenge against his election to Parliament. | :01:16. | :01:16. | |
And Donald Trump is stripped of an honorary degree and his place | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
on a Scottish business group after his remarks about Muslims. | :01:20. | :01:41. | |
Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
An NHS Trust failed to investigate the unexpected deaths of more | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
than a thousand people, according to a scathing report | :01:49. | :01:50. | |
commissioned by NHS England and obtained by BBC News. | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
Between 2011 and 2015 there were more than | :01:54. | :02:00. | |
1400 unexpected deaths among mental health patients and people | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
with learning disabilities at Southern Health NHS Trust. | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
But of those, more than 1100 were not investigated. | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
The report blames a failure of leadership at the Trust, | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
which is one of the largest of its kind in the country. | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
Southern Health Trust says that in almost all cases it was not | :02:19. | :02:20. | |
Our Social Affairs Correspondent Michael Buchanan has this report. | :02:21. | :02:32. | |
This is the story of how the NHS failed to question why hundreds of | :02:33. | :02:41. | |
patients died unexpectedly. She's worth crying for. A trust that | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
didn't talk to families, was not interested in learning lessons. It's | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
like uncovering a scandal. It's a total scandal, that report. Senior | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
managers who failed to do their jobs, protecting some of society's | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
most vulnerable. One, but not forgotten. Andrea and Jim's daughter | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
Tessa died in 2013 aged 20. Despite receiving mental health support for | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
years and desperate we seeking help just before she died, the family had | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
no idea whether Southern Health investigated her death. Maybe if we | :03:19. | :03:27. | |
cut the help we would still have her withers. It's appalling. Lots of | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
people involved paid to do a job and they didn't do it. -- have her with | :03:33. | :03:45. | |
us. Sorry. No need to apologise. She's worth crying for. Nearly 1200 | :03:46. | :03:55. | |
unexpected deaths were not investigated by Southern Health over | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
the last four years. The likelihood of death being examined depended on | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
the type of patient. 30% of mental health deaths were investigated, | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
just 1% of learning disability deaths, and even fewer, 0.3% of | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
older psychiatric patients, were looked into. The report was ordered | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
by NHS England after the death of Connor Sparrowhawk, the 18-year-old | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
died in a Bath following an epileptic seizure. His mother says | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
the whole weeder ship at the trust should go. There's no reason why in | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
2015 a report like this should come out. No reason at all. The board and | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
senior team are completely responsible for this, utterly | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
shameful. They should go? Without a doubt. They should have gone | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
already. They have read the report. This report is a damning indictment | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
of one of the country's largest mental health trusts. A failure of | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
leadership at Southern Health, a lack transparency, lack of taking | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
opportunities. Some deaths could have been avoided if earlier | :05:04. | :05:05. | |
instances have been properly investigated. This is the woman now | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
in the firing line, Trina Percy has led Southern health since its | :05:12. | :05:18. | |
creation in 2011. The report says the failure to bring about sustained | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
improvement in the light of deaths is a failure of leadership and | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
governance. Tonight Southern Health told us there were serious concerns | :05:27. | :05:27. | |
about the draft reports concerns. However, the report says that | :05:28. | :05:49. | |
clearly, we have little confidence in the trust is fully recognised | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
needs to improve its reporting an investigation of deaths. What | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
worries me is that there appears to be no sense the trust is learning, | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
that they are changing their practice. In light of this report | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
that has to be some accountability here. Someone has to be held to | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
account at senior level for the failures of this trust to properly | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
investigate and involve families. Tonight, many families will wonder | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
why the NHS is seemingly failed to care about why their loved ones died | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
is this one trust or could it will stop | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
is this one trust or could it reflect a wider problem? The | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
important and set is that we simply don't know. It was a forensically | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
investigation into one trust, admittedly a large one, but there | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
are 51 trusts in England alone, and others in Scotland, Wales and | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
Northern Ireland as well. What the report highlighted whether when it | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
tried to gauge whether Southern health was better or worse than | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
others, is that there was problems with the benchmark of statistics in | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
the wider NHS, so more work will have to be done on that. NHS England | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
have said this evening that when the report is fully published they stand | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
to take action. In the short-term I think the focus will remain on the | :07:05. | :07:11. | |
Southern Health leader, she set the culture, lots of questions about her | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
tonight, not simply because about what's in the report. We've been | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
looking at the deaths at Southern Health for some weeks now and we | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
have spoken to families who children died in the area and their families | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
have developed mental health problems, and they say they will not | :07:28. | :07:29. | |
seek support because they fear what will happen to them if they engage | :07:30. | :07:31. | |
with Southern Health. And there's an NHS helpline | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
for people directly affected The number to call | :07:35. | :07:36. | |
is 0300 003 0025. The Chancellor has | :07:37. | :07:43. | |
set aside ?50 million to help the victims of Storm | :07:44. | :07:45. | |
Desmond. George Osborne said each family | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
would be able to claim up to ?5000 to protect their homes | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
from future damage. The fund will be administered | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
by local authorities and will be More rain and high wind here | :07:57. | :08:13. | |
tonight. It's the last thing people here want to see. Despite these | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
flood warnings, nobody is expecting any serious flooding in Carlisle. | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
Welcome news tonight, more government cash in Cumbria, | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
Lancashire and Scotland to help businesses get going again, to help | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
with the clear up and make sure people in places like this can start | :08:31. | :08:31. | |
again. There is so much that needs to be | :08:32. | :08:41. | |
done. This is just one street, but every home here has been flooded. To | :08:42. | :08:48. | |
help families, the government has promised ?50 million, money to | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
rebuild lives. This is what is left of one home, Natalie has only been | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
here one year, and the insurance will not cover everything. There is | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
so much damage. Will this covenant cash help? Any bit of help is | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
welcome. We have never done this before, we have only been here for a | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
year and we are having to take everything out and start again. Any | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
help is greatly appreciated. So many are in need. So many relying on the | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
goodwill of volunteers for the basics like food and water. | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
Everything here has been donated by people in Carlisle. This charity is | :09:25. | :09:31. | |
what Janine Wright is relying on. She has no insurance, and could | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
claim up to ?5,000 from the government's Flood fund. She needs | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
all the help she can get. I have a friend who put me up on the couch, | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
she didn't have to do. I have a dog and she took the dog in. Without | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
that kindness, what would have happened to you? I wouldn't like to | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
say. I honestly wouldn't like to say. To help Janine, these roofers | :09:54. | :10:01. | |
are working for free. How important is it to do this? It's very | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
important, helping the community when there has been so much | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
devastation about. Today, Carlisle felt like a volunteer city. | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
Strangers, not just delivering food, but showing support. The football | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
club here called on fans to help clean up the stadium. Those recently | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
made homeless rely on the kindness of volunteers at this rescue centre. | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
They are a godsend. Without them we would be... We might have starved. | :10:31. | :10:37. | |
Yeah, they have given us clothes, toiletries, food. Somewhere to | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
sleep. To keep this city safe, once again flood defences are being | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
checked. Tonight, more rain and high wind, as if people here could take | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
any more. Ed Thomas, BBC News, Carlisle. | :10:53. | :10:54. | |
It was known as the capital of Syria's revolution, | :10:55. | :10:56. | |
and has seen some of the fiercest fighting of the four year civil war. | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
But today, under a UN-backed ceasefire, the entire city of Homs | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
is back under Syrian government control. | :11:04. | :11:04. | |
Homs saw some of the earliest protests against President Assad | :11:05. | :11:06. | |
It then came under bombardment from the Syrian army, | :11:07. | :11:13. | |
with thousands of civilians caught in the fighting. | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
Today, rebels withdrew from the district of al-Wair, | :11:17. | :11:19. | |
and for the first time in almost a year, aid was allowed in. | :11:20. | :11:22. | |
Our Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet | :11:23. | :11:24. | |
The families of the fighters were the first to leave, | :11:25. | :11:32. | |
The fighters gathered at the entrance to al-Wair, | :11:33. | :11:40. | |
some still carrying their personal weapons. | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
These are the men with extremist groups, some with Al-Qaeda links, | :11:46. | :11:47. | |
On the other side, the soldiers they have fought | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
About 100 families are being bussed to northern Syria, | :11:52. | :11:58. | |
The fighters will continue waging war from there. | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
It's hard for anyone to leave home, especially when you don't | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
Local aid workers try to make it a bit easier. | :12:08. | :12:15. | |
But there is also relief to leave a besieged area where food | :12:16. | :12:18. | |
Mohammed tells me it was very difficult. | :12:19. | :12:26. | |
I have back problems and there was no medication. | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
It's very important, he says, what's happening today. | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
But, one day, I hope to return to my home. | :12:33. | :12:40. | |
This neighbourhood, when the crisis hit, | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
about 300,000 people were living here. | :12:44. | :12:45. | |
We believe with the implementation of this agreement, more people | :12:46. | :12:58. | |
will opt to come back to their homes. | :12:59. | :13:00. | |
The government calls this reconciliation. | :13:01. | :13:02. | |
The critics say this is a surrender forced by the government's siege | :13:03. | :13:04. | |
of al-Wair, which cut off food and water to the community. | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
TRANSLATION: We don't see it this way. | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
What we see is that most of the armed groups here in al-Wair | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
And that will bring peace and security to Homs. | :13:17. | :13:24. | |
This is both a military ceasefire as well as a humanitarian agreement. | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
There are those who believe this is the only real forward | :13:30. | :13:31. | |
But this local ceasefire took nearly two years | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
Every deal will depend on who's doing the fighting, | :13:36. | :13:45. | |
Today's ceasefire means the fighting across Homs is now over. | :13:46. | :13:52. | |
That's a relief to many who paid a terrible price. | :13:53. | :13:55. | |
But the war in Syria is far from over. | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
A brief look at some of the day's other news stories... | :14:00. | :14:08. | |
Police in Paris have identified a third suicide bomber who attacked | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
the Bataclan Theatre, killing 90 people last month. | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
French media named him as Foued Mohamed-Aggad, | :14:16. | :14:18. | |
He's believed to have travelled to Syria alongside his brother | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
The Liberal Democrat MP Alistair Carmichael | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
has survived a legal challenge against his election last May. | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
Four of his constituents argued that he'd lied about the leaking | :14:32. | :14:33. | |
of a memo during the general election campaign, | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
but judges ruled he wasn't in breach of election law. | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
A petition calling for the Republican presidential hopeful | :14:42. | :14:44. | |
Donald Trump to be banned from entering the UK has reached | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
200,000 signatures, meaning it will be considered | :14:48. | :14:49. | |
It was posted in response to Mr Trump's call for a temporary | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
2-4,000,000 a litre before Christmas - | :14:55. | :15:06. | |
It says the average price of petrol is expected to drop | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
It's come as the oil price fell to less than $40 a barrel | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
for the first time in almost seven years. | :15:16. | :15:17. | |
Our economics correspondent Andy Verity reports. | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
Enjoy it while it lasts, the Bank of England told us. | :15:22. | :15:24. | |
Petrol prices won't continue to fall. | :15:25. | :15:27. | |
Now, ahead of Christmas, snow might not be falling, | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
It should be a bit cheaper than that though, I think. | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
Being a minicab driver, it makes a big difference. | :15:38. | :15:46. | |
Yeah, petrol prices going down would be lovely. | :15:47. | :15:48. | |
After dropping to a pound per litre in 2009, petrol prices climbed, | :15:49. | :15:51. | |
driven by surging demand from China and India. | :15:52. | :15:53. | |
Then, oil producers pumped out too much oil. | :15:54. | :15:55. | |
They bounced back, but now they are dropping again. | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
Petrol prices getting down close to a pound per litre might seem | :16:02. | :16:04. | |
like great news for motorists ahead of Christmas, but it's also | :16:05. | :16:06. | |
The world isn't just producing more oil than it needs, | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
it's also burning less than it was expected | :16:12. | :16:14. | |
because of a global economic slowdown. | :16:15. | :16:17. | |
This is how the newest offshore rig in the North Sea should look | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
Ordered when oil prices were higher, it was doubled to make money. | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
Worldwide, there are nearly 3 billion barrels of unused crude oil, | :16:26. | :16:28. | |
China's slowdown means there's less demand, | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
not just for oil, but commodities like steel and copper. | :16:35. | :16:37. | |
have also collapsed, devastating mining companies | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
One of the world's biggest traders of commodities told us rises | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
My read of this is that the Chinese economic underperformance is likely | :16:47. | :16:52. | |
In that environment I would expect commodity prices | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
While the global economic gloom might lie behind the cheaper prices, | :16:57. | :17:04. | |
you will not see many motorists lamenting it. | :17:05. | :17:07. | |
The average litre of unleaded is not yet as cheap as it was in February | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
after the first big drop in oil prices, but it's heading that way. | :17:12. | :17:14. | |
Southern Mental Health Trust has been blamed for failing | :17:15. | :17:26. | |
to investigate 1,000 unexpected deaths. | :17:27. | :17:34. | |
still to come, the Hatton Garden diamond heist. The court blames two | :17:35. | :17:41. | |
of the accused were no strangers to high-profile robberies. | :17:42. | :17:42. | |
And coming up on Reporting Scotland at 6:30. | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
Celtic's John Collins says their final European match | :17:46. | :17:47. | |
of the season is one they could do without, | :17:48. | :17:49. | |
as the team trains in Istanbul tonight. | :17:50. | :17:51. | |
And we'll explain why these giant pink bunnies are proving | :17:52. | :17:53. | |
the antidote to the granite city gloaming. | :17:54. | :18:02. | |
Delegates at the UN climate talks in Paris are studying the draft text | :18:03. | :18:05. | |
of what many hope will be a new global agreement | :18:06. | :18:07. | |
It marks a crucial stage in the negotiations, | :18:08. | :18:13. | |
but there are already arguments about what might be left out | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
Our Science Editor David Shukman is in Paris. | :18:17. | :18:27. | |
Thank you. Yes, basically, for two decade International talks on | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
climate change and got nowhere so what happened today is pretty | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
significant. The French, hosting this conference, came up with what | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
they see as the basics of what could become the first global agreement to | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
tackle climate change. It's got lots of gaps, plenty didn't like about it | :18:45. | :18:47. | |
but many say it's a promising start. Trying to tackle the world's | :18:48. | :18:50. | |
changing climate. Some of the poorest countries fear | :18:51. | :18:51. | |
global warming will threaten their survival whilst others | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
are reluctant to take action. Today in Paris, delegates | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
were given the latest draft of what could become | :19:02. | :19:09. | |
a landmark agreement. 29 pages designed to head off | :19:10. | :19:11. | |
the dangers of rising temperatures. The developing nations immediately | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
said there wasn't enough I'm worried about the fact | :19:15. | :19:16. | |
that there is no clear commitment from the international community | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
particularly the main major emitters in terms of what they are going | :19:22. | :19:28. | |
to do in terms of support for the most vulnerable | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
small island states. Negotiators have been poring over | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
this draft document. Checking if it suits nearly 200 | :19:38. | :19:45. | |
different governments. I got my copy and, like everyone, | :19:46. | :19:52. | |
saw while a lot of key points are agreed, many fundamental issues | :19:53. | :19:55. | |
are still to be sorted. So it talks of a goal | :19:56. | :19:58. | |
to limit global warming. It calls for deep cuts in greenhouse | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
gases but it's not clear by when. And it says there will be reviews | :20:04. | :20:20. | |
of national climate plans it doesn't At the heart of this is a dispute | :20:21. | :20:23. | |
over who should reduce the emissions And today the United States called | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
on the biggest developing countries Carbon pollution | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
is carbon pollution. And it does the same damage | :20:33. | :20:34. | |
whether it's coming from Baltimore So we all have to be | :20:35. | :20:37. | |
smarter about the future. The talks have gone far more | :20:38. | :20:44. | |
smoothly than many expected but long The jury in the Hatton Garden | :20:45. | :20:47. | |
diamond robbery trial has heard that two of the men who have pleaded | :20:48. | :20:54. | |
guilty to the burglary were also involved in two of the most | :20:55. | :20:57. | |
notorious robberies of the 1980s. Daniel Sandford is outside | :20:58. | :21:00. | |
Woolwich Crown Court. Yes, George, until now the jury had | :21:01. | :21:12. | |
been kept in the dark about the criminal past of the men who had | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
already pleaded guilty to the Hatton Garden burglary but today they | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
discovered, that two of them had served long jail sentences for two | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
of the most notorious armed robberies of the 1980s. | :21:26. | :21:28. | |
Brian Reader, 76 years old, and Terry Perkins, 67, | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
both pleaded guilty in September to the Hatton Garden burglary, | :21:35. | :21:37. | |
But we can now report for the first time, Brian Reader's previous | :21:38. | :21:49. | |
involvement in Britain's biggest gold robbery 32 years ago. | :21:50. | :21:52. | |
Gold bullion stolen from the Brinks mat and depot in a violent armed | :21:53. | :21:55. | |
robbery is unlikely to turn up again in its original form that is. | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
He served eight years for handling some of the ?26 million worth | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
of bullion stolen in the Brinks mat heist of 1983. | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
We can also report Terry Perkins' time in prison. | :22:09. | :22:10. | |
22 years for the security express robbery in the same year. | :22:11. | :22:17. | |
A gang, up to six of them, carried shotguns. | :22:18. | :22:19. | |
At the time, it was the biggest cash robbery Britain had seen. | :22:20. | :22:30. | |
This week, the Hatton Garden trial were shown this security camera | :22:31. | :22:32. | |
footage capturing the moment that some of the stolen jewellery | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
Today the jury heard that the taxi driver, | :22:36. | :22:43. | |
John Hardinson, told police, I'm totally innocent | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
of any involvement in this burglary, | :22:47. | :22:48. | |
I have morals and I would not nick anything. | :22:49. | :22:55. | |
Police estimate of the ?40 million stolen in the burglary, | :22:56. | :22:58. | |
only two to four million has been recovered. | :22:59. | :23:05. | |
He's played at Twickenham many times. | :23:06. | :23:06. | |
Just six weeks ago, Jamie Roberts represented his country | :23:07. | :23:08. | |
in the World Cup, but tomorrow the Wales and British Lion centre | :23:09. | :23:11. | |
will take to the field for a rather different occasion - | :23:12. | :23:14. | |
the 134th Varsity match between Oxford and Cambridge. | :23:15. | :23:16. | |
Roberts, who is also a qualified doctor, decided to go back | :23:17. | :23:19. | |
Huw Edwards spoke to him in Cambridge. | :23:20. | :23:26. | |
Certainly, the five or six weeks I've been here, | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
it's been a bit of an eye-opener really. | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
Nothing I was ever used to, compared to what I was used | :23:37. | :23:39. | |
It's such an amazing, amazing place to study, | :23:40. | :23:42. | |
What does it mean to you, given that there will be people | :23:43. | :23:49. | |
watching thinking, gosh, this guy has played in such enormous | :23:50. | :23:51. | |
matches, why would you get excited about the Varsity match? | :23:52. | :23:54. | |
I think it's the pinnacle of student sport and certainly, | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
as a student, when I started on my undergraduate course | :24:00. | :24:09. | |
in medicine in Cardiff when I was 18, you saw people get | :24:10. | :24:12. | |
excited for the Cardiff- Swansea Varsity match which I used | :24:13. | :24:14. | |
I suppose you look to the pinnacle of student sport and that's always | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
been the Varsity match, whether it's the rowing or the rugby | :24:19. | :24:21. | |
To get a chance to play in it now, whilst I'm coming back | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
to being a student again, the eternal student, | :24:26. | :24:27. | |
How do you have the balance between your academic duties | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
and all the rest of the stuff you need to keep up with? | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
Yeah, I suppose I try to spin quite a few plates in my life. | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
Yeah, it's tough, there's no doubting that. | :24:44. | :24:45. | |
I work pretty hard at whatever I set my mind to. | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
I was always used to it, from 18, doing a medical degree | :24:52. | :24:54. | |
in Cardiff University, balancing playing alongside studying. | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
I've always found that one is an escape from the other. | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
If I'm training really hard, I escape into the library or do some | :25:03. | :25:05. | |
work and I'm ready to go training again and vice versa. | :25:06. | :25:08. | |
For people wondering where Jamie Roberts is going to be | :25:09. | :25:11. | |
in ten years' time, are they right to think you're probably going to be | :25:12. | :25:14. | |
in medicine, that's going to be your full-time occupation, | :25:15. | :25:17. | |
It would be a wise man to not bet against me being a doctor | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
I've devoted near a decade to my medical studies. | :25:24. | :25:31. | |
I haven't worked as a junior doctor yet which is something I really | :25:32. | :25:34. | |
Yeah, I've given a lot of years to being a medical student | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
and there have been some great experiences. | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
I've met some wonderful people along the way and I'd love to be able | :25:45. | :25:47. | |
And you can see the Varsity match tomorrow on BBC Two from 2.00pm. | :25:48. | :25:57. | |
George, hello, it's more of the same to be honest with you. I wish I | :25:58. | :26:10. | |
could wave a magic wand and all that wind and rain would fade away but | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
no, unfortunately, for the next week or so it's going to be a case of | :26:16. | :26:18. | |
spells of rain coming off the Atlantic. This is one weather system | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
crossing the west of UK right now. Strong wind in the west of the | :26:24. | :26:26. | |
country, lots of ice bars here so real thrust wind coming off the | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
Atlantic, so let's see what's happening over the next couple of | :26:31. | :26:36. | |
hours or so. 60-70 miles an hour gusts of the Western Isles, the Lake | :26:37. | :26:39. | |
District and the South of Scotland and we could see 50-60 miles an hour | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
gusts and the rainfall is a concern always across this part of the world | :26:45. | :26:46. | |
after flooding 40 millilitres, nowhere near compare to what we had | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
a week ago but it's not very pleasant when you look out of your | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
front window at that flooding. The rain keeps coming. The good news is | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
later on in the night, the bane will shift further south and will end up | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
across southern areas, -- the rain. 10 degrees. In the north, colder. | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
The reason is a cold front crossing the country tomorrow so in the | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
south, it's cloudy, rain falling in the south-west about to the North, | :27:14. | :27:19. | |
particularly Scotland, I think old enough for some wintry showers | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
particularly across the hills. Six in Glasgow, eight in Glasgow, in the | :27:24. | :27:30. | |
south, mild weather, 13 in London, and Friday is not pretty in the | :27:31. | :27:34. | |
south. Cloudy skies for most of us with rain on and off. Cold still, | :27:35. | :27:40. | |
relatively cold across the northern half of the UK. The weekend? It will | :27:41. | :27:45. | |
turn milder, there are some rain on the way but it looks as though the | :27:46. | :27:50. | |
rainfall could be a bit tricky to forecast exactly where it will fall. | :27:51. | :27:54. | |
We will know a bit better tomorrow so a real mixed bag continues. Thank | :27:55. | :27:57. | |
you. Before we go, a word | :27:58. | :27:59. | |
about an exclusive report coming It's from our correspondent | :28:00. | :28:02. | |
Ian Pannell on the battle Now on BBC One, it's time to join | :28:03. | :28:05. | |
the BBC's news teams where you are. | :28:06. | :28:46. |