19/03/2014 BBC Points West

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Good Evening: The Chief Executive of One, it's

Good Evening: The Chief Executive of a hospital trust has apologhsed to

the family of young man who took his own life whilst he was a patient at

a secure psychiatric unit. @n inquest today ruled that Jales

Pollard was a victim of neglect at Fromeside in Bristol. Warnings from

his loved ones that he was ` danger to himself were not acted upon.

Here's our health correspondent Matthew Hill.

James Pollard as his parents want to remember him ` sincere, gendrous and

warm`hearted. But after turning to drugs, he ended up, in his lid` 0s,

at this medium secure unit near Bristol for almost three months But

last April, James managed to kill himself using the lead to hhs CD

player. The inquest heard J`mes Pollard had tried to take hhs own

life several times. And that his parents had warned Fromesidd

something was wrong in the days before his death. They argudd that

with his history and their warnings, he should have been more closely

observed, and should not have been allowed the lead to his CD player.

Staff said James was being constantly assessed, and wasn't

presenting as significantly paranoid or suicidal. They do acknowledge

though that he would hide the symptoms of his illness. And just

months before James moved hdre, Fromeside was severely crithcised by

the regulator over a lack of skilled staff. And a source told us that,

over last summer, there werd still problems with short staffing,

leading to an air of violence, and staff being unable to build

meaningful relationships with patients. Whilst the latest

inspection report raises no concerns about staffing, care, or

safeguarding, it does criticise record keeping. James' parents did

praise some of their son's care but welcomed today's verdict th`t he had

been neglected. There were failures in communication, risk assessment

and patient management full is. Power chief reasons was that the

internal investigation carrhed out by the trust did not acknowledge

these failures. Staff are vdry difficult job, they have to balance

the rights of the individual with the risk and on this occasion an

error of judgement was made and if people had listened to the parents

of James and this `` then this tragic event may not have h`ppened.

Patients can now only have shortened CD leads ` some would say this

simple measure should have happened well before.

An investigation is under w`y after a nine`year`old girl was knocked

down and killed by a bus in Swindon. Caitlin Hunt was crossing the road

on her scooter just before six o'clock last night. Police `re

investigating and bus company Thamesdown Transport says it's

co`operating fully. A Bristol solicitor who admhtted

leaving her dog to die in a locked kitchen has been told she f`ces

jail. Katy Gammon moved out of her house but left her boxer Roxy behind

with no food or water. The dog's remains were found ten weeks later.

To leave an animal locked in a property to die and to know full

well that that animal is gohng to die is horrendous and the rdaction

from the RS VCE and particularly the officers who attended to relove the

door of `` removes the dog where particularly distressed.

The chancellor put a little fizz in the West Country cider industry

today. Tax on our region's lost famous drink will be frozen, in what

Mr Osborne called a little compensation for all the dalage so

many cider farmers have suffered in the floods. Producers have welcomed

the move. As a business, if it helps to

protect our sales and there is a strong correlation between price

increase and customers being driven slightly away from cider sales, then

I think that if it helps us to improve our sales then we whll be

able to reinvest in the orchards, which we are expecting to h`ve a

difficult time after two difficult winters.

But how will today's budget affect typical companies in the West? Our

business correspondent Dave Harvey has been to Gloucester to fhnd out.

From across the county, 120 business leaders consider how his work today

will change their work tomorrow Do you think your businesses whll be

better off? If so, raise yotr hand. Well, what would you say? Hdlp for

builders was trailed, but does house`building actually help local

builders? not really, most contractors get involved in projects

like this. House`building is the domain of a relatively few large

companies. The announcements will support over 200,000 new holes for

families. Builders like Davd will not see much of that work. He is

much more affected by the hdalth of the wider economy. In gener`l things

are better, we are pleased. The main thing about the budget is continuing

the recovery in the economy. Others considering their verdict?

Retailers, manufacturers, or makers and tours, as George Osbornd called

them. What caught their eye? The market is encouraging, raishng the

investment allowance, research and development. The main thing is

helping people in the manuf`cturing or to export is helping people in

Britain. After all that, how does tolorrow

it? Are you feeling richer? A rdminder

that Crimewatch will have an update from police investigating the murder

of Melanie Hall from Bath. They ve asked the public for inform`tion

about a car from 1996, the xear Melanie died. That's on BBC One at

10.40pm. Now here's Ian Fergusson with our weather.

Good evening. We do have a change on the way tomorrow. The first

significant green that we h`ve had in a fortnight. It will takd off

while to get to us. It will progressively turn wet in the

afternoon and windy as well. Temperatures tonight will not be

particularly chilly. I dry night as well. A fair bit of cloud around.

Some light rain showing up by early afternoon. That will be the

exception. Towards mid`afternoon the cold front will bring this band of

rain. Typically only about five millimetres of rain. Quite windy as

well. Temperatures tomorrow, at least before we get to that stage,

should still be 10`12dC. It is opening the door to a cooler day on

Friday, a similar story for Saturday as well, though an

This is the outlook: Bright enough This is the outlook: Bright enough

for Friday and the weekend but much colder and some of the showers could

have a wintry nature.