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And now the news for the East Midlands, I'm Anne Davies.

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An inquest's heard how an 87-year-old dementia pathent

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killed himself and a young father after driving for 30 miles the wrong

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way along two motorways and a dual carriageway across the region.

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Three police forces were crhticised for failing to stop Albert Newman,

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who finally crashed into a van on the M1 near

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Today's inquest was dramatically adjourned by the coroner.

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The aftermath of a major crash between junction

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24A and 25 of the M1, which claimed the lives of two

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One was 27-year-old Michael Lucci, killed when the van

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he was travelling in was hit head-on by a dementia patient driving

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Albert Newman, also died at the scene.

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Today at an inquest in Leicestershire, it emergdd

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the 87-year-old had in fact been driving the wrong way for around 30

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miles before the crash, from junction nine on the M42,

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Well concerns were raised at the inquest about police protocol.

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Warwickshire Police took thd first call about a car on the wrong

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carriageway on the M42, but officers incorrectly recorded

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The error was put right when Mr Newman crossed

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into Leicestershire on the @42 where the specialist roads policing

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unit had finished work for the night.

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This meant the force had no specialist motorway patrols.

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The coroner described the procedure used by Leicestershire Police is not

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It also emerged Nottinghamshire Police spoke to Mr Newman months

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before the crash after reports about him driving

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An officer didn't check the paperwork, which would have

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revealed his licence had bedn revoked on medical grounds two

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The inquest here was adjourned so the coroner can gather more

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information and all three forces won't comment until it concludes,

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though a senior officer from Nottinghamshire

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The families of Michael Lucci and Albert Newman have been waiting

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months for this inquest, but they want answers and they hope

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they'll get them when the hdaring resumes here on the 8th of December.

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Amy Harris, BBC East Midlands Today, Loughborough.

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Four people have been injurdd, one seriously, after a car lounted

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the pavement and hit pedestrians before driving off.

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It happened on Humberstone Gate in Leicester earlier this evening

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Part of the city centre brotght to a standstill during rush hour,

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as paramedics treated the injured on Humberstone Gate.

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Four people have been hurt, two have been taken to hosphtal

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I heard a car, you know at high speed, coming up Halford

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We heard a couple of bangs and we found out later that he had

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He mounted the pavement at speed and came zooming straight bx.

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This car was found abandoned on Halford Street.

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The police sealed off the area as they carried

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Humberstone Gate was busy at the time.

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They are appealing for witndsses to come forward.

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Victoria Hicks, BBC East Midlands Today.

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Patients in part of the East Midlands are being warned GPs

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will no longer routinely prdscribe medication that's available to buy

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The crackdown in the East of Leicestershire and Rutland

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Our Health Correspondent Rob Sissons reports.

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Yes, for years, doctors havd been prescribing things like par`cetamol,

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sometimes without even thinking about the cost to the NHS.

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But now, there is to be a crackdown in this part of the East Midlands,

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East Leicestershire and Rutland on medications like hay fevdr

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The message to patients is, save the NHS money by buying

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In East Leicestershire and Rutland, they spend around ?470,000

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That's 1% of the drugs budgdt, spending they've like to reduce

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They see that the NHS has lhmited resources and needs

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There's no reason why the NHS should provide very inexpensive drtgs

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at great cost to the NHS, when they can be bought

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Patients we spoke to had mixed ideas about the new plan.

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If you are on low wages, that's the difference.

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If it's cheaper to buy it in the shop, why get it frol here?

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I think it's fine just buying it from the chemist.

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With an ageing population and limited resources

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and winter on the way, the NHS faces some big challenges.

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With ?18 million of savings to find, they say in East Leicestershire

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and Rutland, there has to bd some tough choices.

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Rob Sissons, BBC East Midlands Today, Leicestershire.

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One of our MPs has suggested it s time we scrapped a layer of local

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government and got rid of Dhstrict and Borough Councils.

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The Conservative MP Anna Sotbry has echoed a call made by Labour county

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But critics say the idea is bad for local democracy.

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Here's our political editor Tony Roe.

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This is Councillor Rosita P`ge at Leicestershire's County Hall.

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Going to move on and this is our catch-up session...

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She's at a forum on adult social care in the morning and next,

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she has to get to market our breath for another meeting because she is

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She is paid for both council roles, but that's not the issue for critics

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who want to see the two councils she works, for reduced to one.

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I would get rid of the borotgh councils, which wouldn't be very

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popular with a lot of people, especially those

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But then I'd have a unitary authority here in Nottinghalshire

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Rosita Page has changed her mind, she used to believe

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Now, having seen the inside of the system,

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I find that we are wasting a lot of resources.

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It would be very simple to have one council and going back

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to Leicestershire, we would then be saving seven district counchls,

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seven times a councillors, seven times support staff.

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Night falls, meetings are in the evening, because most

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district councillors have other jobs.

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The harbour constitutional committee doesn't pack out the public gallery,

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but defenders of local councils say, to lose them would be

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Councillor Page's 12 hour d`y finishes at nine.

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It's reckoned 20 million a xear would be saved in Leicestershire

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alone by scrapping the seven district councils.

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For critics, that's a high price for democracy.

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Tony Roe, BBC East Midlands Today, Leicestershire.

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A Derbyshire charity is helping people in Haiti

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purify their drinking water after the devastation caused

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The Aquabox team are sending special water treatment pumps and m`king

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a new appeal for donations to help pay for more supplies and shipments.

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Simon Ward has been to see them at work.

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The team of volunteers are busy making new water filters,

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ready for their next shipment of aid.

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It can quickly make this murky liquid into drinking water.

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It will turn water which is heavily contaminated, as we see there,

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into safe drinking water and will get rid of all the bacteria

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that is known to man and it safe to drink.

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Aquabox helps countries all round the world,

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but Haiti is their current project, following the destruction

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Charity worker, Bill Farrar has just returned from Haiti to his home

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in the US after distributing the water filters from Derbxshire.

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There are hardly any wells to have good water now.

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Everyone, as you know, needed safe water and we ard in

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the process of trying to get as many of the Aquaboxes

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and other systems installed as we possibly can on the island.

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It's a real team effort to construct the filters

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We've proved they do work because we go to Gambia twice

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The first ten we ever made are in Gambia, still working.

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Aquabox works with the Rotary charity and along with the water

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filters, there's plenty of other aid supplies included in the boxes.

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Knitted teddies, which young children find very benefici`l.

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They need something to hug and they may have left

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We also have a wonderful array of knitted blankets.

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With more financial support from Rotary and public donations,

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more water filters and supplies will go to Haiti and other `reas

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Simon Ward, BBC East Midlands Today, Wirksworth.

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So, it's goodbye from me, but here's your weather.

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Has been a cold feel to things. I am sure you noticed the differdnce from

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yesterday. No sunshine to w`rm things up. Cold fronts has been

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giving us cloud today and ptlling in the colder air. But there is drier

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air behind it so we have lost the mist and Merck Farwell. We have said

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goodbye to the fog and we whll say hello to the sunshine. It whll be

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colder over the next few daxs. Skies have been clearing this evening and

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we will stay dry with clear skies for the rest of the night.

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Temperature is already taking a tumble. Cooler air in place, down to

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three or 4 degrees in the towns but we will be close to, is not below

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freezing in sheltered, rural spots. Some of you will be scraping the car

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for the first time tomorrow morning. It'll be a frosty and cold start to

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the day. Plenty of crisp, attumn sunshine. Higher cloud rollhng its

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way in, but a decent day tolorrow although it will feel cold,

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particularly in the wind. Hhghs of 10 Celsius. I will

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couple of days, frosty mornings before turning unsettled. Good You

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know what, in evening. the last few days, much

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more following the calendar. A warm end to October, 1st November, abrupt

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change to the weather. In fact over the next few days, we will be

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getting colder air all the way from the north, almost from Arctic

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regions, a real nip in the air particularly for folks getting up

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early in the morning A good frost around and there is a frost on the

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way tonight. This is what is happening on

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