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17/02/2014

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That is all from us. Newsnight is on BBC Two in a few moments, asking

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what lessons the flood have The Good evening.

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Two more families who lost children after heart surgery have come

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forward to express their concerns about their care at the Bristol

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Children's Hospital. This follows Friday's announcement that there's

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to be an inquiry into several deaths of children over recent years.

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Tonight the hospital maintains its results are safe, although it will

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be co`operating with the review Our Health Correspondent reports.

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This is the only video taken of Harley Pascoe in the days before he

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died when he was just twelve days old. It's treasured by his parents

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who to this day his parents are still searching for answers as to

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why. They say his operation last October was cancelled five times

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because there was no intensive care bed available at the Bristol

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Children's Hospital. And by the time he was given surgery, his condition

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had deteriorated. Nobody ever said it was urgent when we were at the

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hospital. It was not until he had an echo the day before the lead at his

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operation noticed the duct in his heart was closing up so they had to

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double his dose of drugs to keep it open. Batters when he became an

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emergency and was operated on the next day. The guy doing the heart

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echo said that he wanted him to be operated within a couple of days. He

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said it was surprised it took 1 days to operate, but he didn't know

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about it. The family say they have been told by the hospital that in

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the first operation a device called a shunt had dislodged. So he had to

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be operated on again. He died eight hours after. The hospital say Harley

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was not considered urgent at the time, which is why children with in

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a more serious condition had to be seen first. Another recently

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bereaved couple joined us. They happen to live just a few miles

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away. Stephen Snelton and his partner Vicky lost their daughter

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Mia Leigh last July, when she was just 11 days old. But still say they

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have heard nothing from the hospital about their Child Death Review for

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several months. I don't know what I should be doing. Nobody has

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explained to me. They promised us that she would always be one of our

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patients and they would keep in touch. I have had nothing. The

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hospital says it has written to the family but not heard back yet. One

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concern families share is over how the trust has communicated with

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them. Last Friday the medical director of the NHS announced an

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inquiry into the heart unit and some of the recent deaths. In the review

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Sir Ian Kennedy will be looking into issues such as communication and the

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treatment given to children here. But today the hospital told me it

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always strives to give the best care. And is saddened that a group

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of families believe they have been let down. It also said a recent

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survey of parents found 98% said they had received excellent or good

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care. These families hope the new enquiry he has announced will get to

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the bottom of what happened. Work to shore up the banks of a

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Somerset river has been going on all day as part of efforts to try to

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restart the pumping operation to clear the Levels. The high volume

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Dutch pumps had to be switched off after only a couple of days because

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they were eroding the bank of the River Parrett. Scott Ellis reports.

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At full blast, two tonnes of water tumbles out of each of these pipes

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every second. It has dug hole in the banks of this river so big that

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pumping has had to stop. It is hoped a metal containers will now help

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absorb the impact. This is a big job to putting crushed concrete and

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stone amongst other things to do this paper energy coming out. The

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cranes are here to do that. We hope to resume pumping later today.

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Crumbling mud banks have meant that the world's biggest mobile pumping

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operation has had to stop. They cannot afford many more delays. This

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river has been spilling over its banks for weeks. The need to get the

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pumps online because this is still all going to take many weeks to

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shift. The sooner river levels drop, the sooner dozens of other smaller

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pumps can restart work. And new distribution centre opened today

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near Bridgwater for flood victims. This man among those able to restock

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thanks to the generosity of others. Ten of us outside are working under

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cold and wet. We can't afford to get gale`force this woman helped set up

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relief effort. Life in temporary accommodation is taking its toll. It

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is all right until the middle of the night when she wakes up screaming.

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Then I will be in floods of tears. She doesn't expect to be home before

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Christmas. And new addition to Bridgwater docs this evening.

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Another pump from Holland which we are called as precautionary.

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Swindon Town have missed out on going to Wembley next month after

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losing their Johnstone's Paint Trophy Area Final on penalties. They

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led 1`0 in the first half with a goal from Alex Pritchard. But

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Peterborough equalised late on to take the tie to a penalty shoot out.

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And when Swindon missed their fifth spot`kick, Peterborough booked their

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place in the Wembley final. The weather this week is

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considerably quieter. I am not promising dry weather, but certainly

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a lot less windy and we will get longer spells of dry weather in

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between the rain. Tomorrow, a few showers around and generally light

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winds. Some showers tonight will become more isolated. Towards the

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morning, a line of frequent showers will cross much of the region. A

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better chance to see sums me spells developing. As for the outlook,

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expect a fine outlook on Friday For Wednesday night and into Thursday,

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that is when we see the next spell of wet weather. Most of Wednesday is

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try. Then a line of quite persistent rain coming through and telling war

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`` turning more for the most part on Wednesday, it

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will turn more unsettled. Whilst across the whole of the

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country the general weather pattern shows no signs of completely

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settling down there is some good news. There will be some drier

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spells over the next couple of days, the wind is not as strong and it

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will be relatively mild. Cloud tonight, the exception is the

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Northern Isles. The risk of a touch of Frost. A weakening front sitting

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through Scotland. Some heavier showers for Northern Ireland and the

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south-west. A misty and murky

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