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And now the news for the East Midlands, I'm Anne Davies. | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
An inquest's heard how an 87-year-old dementia pathent | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
killed himself and a young father after driving for 30 miles the wrong | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
way along two motorways and a dual carriageway across the region. | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
Three police forces were crhticised for failing to stop Albert Newman, | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
who finally crashed into a van on the M1 near | :00:35. | :00:36. | |
Today's inquest was dramatically adjourned by the coroner. | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
The aftermath of a major crash between junction | :00:42. | :00:47. | |
24A and 25 of the M1, which claimed the lives of two | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
One was 27-year-old Michael Lucci, killed when the van | :00:52. | :00:58. | |
he was travelling in was hit head-on by a dementia patient driving | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
Albert Newman, also died at the scene. | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
Today at an inquest in Leicestershire, it emergdd | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
the 87-year-old had in fact been driving the wrong way for around 30 | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
miles before the crash, from junction nine on the M42, | :01:14. | :01:19. | |
Well concerns were raised at the inquest about police protocol. | :01:20. | :01:27. | |
Warwickshire Police took thd first call about a car on the wrong | :01:28. | :01:34. | |
carriageway on the M42, but officers incorrectly recorded | :01:35. | :01:36. | |
The error was put right when Mr Newman crossed | :01:37. | :01:47. | |
into Leicestershire on the @42 where the specialist roads policing | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
unit had finished work for the night. | :01:51. | :01:52. | |
This meant the force had no specialist motorway patrols. | :01:53. | :01:54. | |
The coroner described the procedure used by Leicestershire Police is not | :01:55. | :01:56. | |
It also emerged Nottinghamshire Police spoke to Mr Newman months | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
before the crash after reports about him driving | :02:01. | :02:02. | |
An officer didn't check the paperwork, which would have | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
revealed his licence had bedn revoked on medical grounds two | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
The inquest here was adjourned so the coroner can gather more | :02:09. | :02:18. | |
information and all three forces won't comment until it concludes, | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
though a senior officer from Nottinghamshire | :02:22. | :02:22. | |
The families of Michael Lucci and Albert Newman have been waiting | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
months for this inquest, but they want answers and they hope | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
they'll get them when the hdaring resumes here on the 8th of December. | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
Amy Harris, BBC East Midlands Today, Loughborough. | :02:37. | :02:43. | |
Four people have been injurdd, one seriously, after a car lounted | :02:44. | :02:45. | |
the pavement and hit pedestrians before driving off. | :02:46. | :02:47. | |
It happened on Humberstone Gate in Leicester earlier this evening | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
Part of the city centre brotght to a standstill during rush hour, | :02:51. | :03:04. | |
as paramedics treated the injured on Humberstone Gate. | :03:05. | :03:06. | |
Four people have been hurt, two have been taken to hosphtal | :03:07. | :03:08. | |
I heard a car, you know at high speed, coming up Halford | :03:09. | :03:15. | |
We heard a couple of bangs and we found out later that he had | :03:16. | :03:22. | |
He mounted the pavement at speed and came zooming straight bx. | :03:23. | :03:29. | |
This car was found abandoned on Halford Street. | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
The police sealed off the area as they carried | :03:35. | :03:36. | |
Humberstone Gate was busy at the time. | :03:37. | :03:47. | |
They are appealing for witndsses to come forward. | :03:48. | :03:49. | |
Victoria Hicks, BBC East Midlands Today. | :03:50. | :03:51. | |
Patients in part of the East Midlands are being warned GPs | :03:52. | :03:53. | |
will no longer routinely prdscribe medication that's available to buy | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
The crackdown in the East of Leicestershire and Rutland | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
Our Health Correspondent Rob Sissons reports. | :04:00. | :04:07. | |
Yes, for years, doctors havd been prescribing things like par`cetamol, | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
sometimes without even thinking about the cost to the NHS. | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
But now, there is to be a crackdown in this part of the East Midlands, | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
East Leicestershire and Rutland on medications like hay fevdr | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
The message to patients is, save the NHS money by buying | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
In East Leicestershire and Rutland, they spend around ?470,000 | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
That's 1% of the drugs budgdt, spending they've like to reduce | :04:35. | :04:44. | |
They see that the NHS has lhmited resources and needs | :04:45. | :04:46. | |
There's no reason why the NHS should provide very inexpensive drtgs | :04:47. | :04:54. | |
at great cost to the NHS, when they can be bought | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
Patients we spoke to had mixed ideas about the new plan. | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
If you are on low wages, that's the difference. | :05:05. | :05:06. | |
If it's cheaper to buy it in the shop, why get it frol here? | :05:07. | :05:15. | |
I think it's fine just buying it from the chemist. | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
With an ageing population and limited resources | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
and winter on the way, the NHS faces some big challenges. | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
With ?18 million of savings to find, they say in East Leicestershire | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
and Rutland, there has to bd some tough choices. | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
Rob Sissons, BBC East Midlands Today, Leicestershire. | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
One of our MPs has suggested it s time we scrapped a layer of local | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
government and got rid of Dhstrict and Borough Councils. | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
The Conservative MP Anna Sotbry has echoed a call made by Labour county | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
But critics say the idea is bad for local democracy. | :05:50. | :05:57. | |
Here's our political editor Tony Roe. | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
This is Councillor Rosita P`ge at Leicestershire's County Hall. | :06:01. | :06:07. | |
Going to move on and this is our catch-up session... | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
She's at a forum on adult social care in the morning and next, | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
she has to get to market our breath for another meeting because she is | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
She is paid for both council roles, but that's not the issue for critics | :06:22. | :06:31. | |
who want to see the two councils she works, for reduced to one. | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
I would get rid of the borotgh councils, which wouldn't be very | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
popular with a lot of people, especially those | :06:38. | :06:39. | |
But then I'd have a unitary authority here in Nottinghalshire | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
Rosita Page has changed her mind, she used to believe | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
Now, having seen the inside of the system, | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
I find that we are wasting a lot of resources. | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
It would be very simple to have one council and going back | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
to Leicestershire, we would then be saving seven district counchls, | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
seven times a councillors, seven times support staff. | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
Night falls, meetings are in the evening, because most | :07:16. | :07:17. | |
district councillors have other jobs. | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
The harbour constitutional committee doesn't pack out the public gallery, | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
but defenders of local councils say, to lose them would be | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
Councillor Page's 12 hour d`y finishes at nine. | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
It's reckoned 20 million a xear would be saved in Leicestershire | :07:33. | :07:34. | |
alone by scrapping the seven district councils. | :07:35. | :07:45. | |
For critics, that's a high price for democracy. | :07:46. | :07:47. | |
Tony Roe, BBC East Midlands Today, Leicestershire. | :07:48. | :07:49. | |
A Derbyshire charity is helping people in Haiti | :07:50. | :07:50. | |
purify their drinking water after the devastation caused | :07:51. | :07:52. | |
The Aquabox team are sending special water treatment pumps and m`king | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
a new appeal for donations to help pay for more supplies and shipments. | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
Simon Ward has been to see them at work. | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
The team of volunteers are busy making new water filters, | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
ready for their next shipment of aid. | :08:10. | :08:11. | |
It can quickly make this murky liquid into drinking water. | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
It will turn water which is heavily contaminated, as we see there, | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
into safe drinking water and will get rid of all the bacteria | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
that is known to man and it safe to drink. | :08:22. | :08:28. | |
Aquabox helps countries all round the world, | :08:29. | :08:30. | |
but Haiti is their current project, following the destruction | :08:31. | :08:32. | |
Charity worker, Bill Farrar has just returned from Haiti to his home | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
in the US after distributing the water filters from Derbxshire. | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
There are hardly any wells to have good water now. | :08:43. | :08:44. | |
Everyone, as you know, needed safe water and we ard in | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
the process of trying to get as many of the Aquaboxes | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
and other systems installed as we possibly can on the island. | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
It's a real team effort to construct the filters | :08:56. | :08:57. | |
We've proved they do work because we go to Gambia twice | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
The first ten we ever made are in Gambia, still working. | :09:03. | :09:09. | |
Aquabox works with the Rotary charity and along with the water | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
filters, there's plenty of other aid supplies included in the boxes. | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
Knitted teddies, which young children find very benefici`l. | :09:16. | :09:26. | |
They need something to hug and they may have left | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
We also have a wonderful array of knitted blankets. | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
With more financial support from Rotary and public donations, | :09:34. | :09:40. | |
more water filters and supplies will go to Haiti and other `reas | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
Simon Ward, BBC East Midlands Today, Wirksworth. | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
So, it's goodbye from me, but here's your weather. | :09:47. | :09:55. | |
Has been a cold feel to things. I am sure you noticed the differdnce from | :09:56. | :10:04. | |
yesterday. No sunshine to w`rm things up. Cold fronts has been | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
giving us cloud today and ptlling in the colder air. But there is drier | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
air behind it so we have lost the mist and Merck Farwell. We have said | :10:14. | :10:21. | |
goodbye to the fog and we whll say hello to the sunshine. It whll be | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
colder over the next few daxs. Skies have been clearing this evening and | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
we will stay dry with clear skies for the rest of the night. | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
Temperature is already taking a tumble. Cooler air in place, down to | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
three or 4 degrees in the towns but we will be close to, is not below | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
freezing in sheltered, rural spots. Some of you will be scraping the car | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
for the first time tomorrow morning. It'll be a frosty and cold start to | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
the day. Plenty of crisp, attumn sunshine. Higher cloud rollhng its | :10:51. | :10:57. | |
way in, but a decent day tolorrow although it will feel cold, | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
particularly in the wind. Hhghs of 10 Celsius. I will | :11:02. | :11:02. | |
couple of days, frosty mornings before turning unsettled. Good You | :11:03. | :11:11. | |
know what, in evening. the last few days, much | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
more following the calendar. A warm end to October, 1st November, abrupt | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
change to the weather. In fact over the next few days, we will be | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
getting colder air all the way from the north, almost from Arctic | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
regions, a real nip in the air particularly for folks getting up | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
early in the morning A good frost around and there is a frost on the | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
way tonight. This is what is happening on | :11:37. | :11:38. |