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the programme tonight: They were taken away for safety, but will | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
children's services ever return to Bedford Hospital? | :00:16. | :00:23. | |
Now the public are to have their say. | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
I am concerned with the consultation, that we may not have | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
an option to bring these services back. | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
That and the rest of the top stories now. | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
Charged with manslaughter - after a fight over a supermarket parking | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
space, Alan Watts appears in court. He's on a salary of more than | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
�66,000, so why has this Cambridgeshire MP taken on a second | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
big-paying job? And, from the electronic wizardry of | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
Cambridge minds to the gadgets in your homes - we meet the company | :00:49. | :00:59. | |
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with multi-million pound exports Good evening. We begin tonight with | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
fears that children's services may never return to Bedford Hospital. | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
All overnight stays and emergency care for under 19s were suspended | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
last month after concerns about safety and staffing levels. Parents | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
have been forced to take their children to neighbouring hospitals | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
instead. But some have complained of long delays. Now they're to have | :01:27. | :01:35. | |
their say over the future of local services. Anna Todd reports. | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
Last week, baby Victor spent the night in children's A&E at Milton | :01:39. | :01:45. | |
Keynes Hospital. His family say he was admitted at 11pm, but not seen | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
until 5am the next day. They say staff were struggling to cope with | :01:48. | :01:53. | |
an influx of patients from the Bedford area. People forced out of | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
town as their own hospital is no longer providing emergency care for | :01:56. | :02:02. | |
children. You pray nothing happens, but things do happen and things go | :02:02. | :02:09. | |
wrong, and I would like the security to have the hospital nearby that I | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
could take my child to, rather than having to take him out of Bedford | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
into Milton Keynes, or even Luton or Dunstable. It is different dealing | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
with young children than adults, which is my field. Children go down | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
the tubes far quicker than adults do. They bounce back quicker, but | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
they go off quicker. You have got a limited amount of time in which to | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
catch them. But in June, paediatric inpatient Asian services were | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
suspended at Bedford Hospital due to a lack of junior doctors. Milton | :02:40. | :02:46. | |
Keynes hospital has agreed to take the extra patients. Yesterday, its | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
medical director told BBC it was unlikely the services would return | :02:49. | :02:55. | |
to Bedford, but today, the chief executive refuted that claim. | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
entitled to his view. From a Milton Keynes perspective, we are clear | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
that we want to fully participate in the consultation process, and we | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
would like the right answer to involve evolve over the next few | :03:08. | :03:14. | |
months. The hospital trust said the current changes are interim and that | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
they are working hard to bring them back in a safe and sustainable way, | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
but they say no decisions will be made until there has been a full | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
public consultation, due to start in the autumn. That needs to start as | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
soon as possible. One of the options it to be to bring the services back | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
safely. I am concerned that there is already talk about them never coming | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
back again, and that is not acceptable. Meanwhile, Milton Keynes | :03:37. | :03:43. | |
hospital insists baby Victor was clinically safe throughout his stay. | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
They say, having taken on more senior doctors and nurses, they are | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
well able to cope with the extra workload. The Bedfordshire Clinical | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
Commissioning Group decides where and how people in the county can be | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
treated. It's led by Dr Paul Hassan, who | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
joins us now. The hospital says it's working hard to bring these services | :04:01. | :04:09. | |
back. Why do you feel a consultation is necessary? | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
I think what we have seen is that the services as they were were no | :04:13. | :04:22. | |
longer safe or sustainable. We want on with our public to understand | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
what safe and sustainable services mean. In a town as large as Bedford | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
it would be ridiculous to consider that there wouldn't be paediatric | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
services, but we need to go through with the families, with the | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
children, with the public, and with all the other people involved in the | :04:37. | :04:45. | |
provision of the services arm how we provide, sorry, how we commission a | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
provider of safe, high-quality and sustainable services which, | :04:49. | :04:56. | |
unfortunately, we have not had, up which is why the services were | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
taken, why the GMC took the junior doctors away from the hospital. | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
Having the idea of merging hospital services in your neighbourhood been | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
around for a couple of years, and some people feel it is an easy way | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
of getting rid of services? It would be an easy way of getting rid of | :05:13. | :05:20. | |
services if it was going to happen. As a local GP, I have no views - we | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
have no queues at all about how providers of services, the | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
hospitals, should arrange themselves. What we want to do with | :05:28. | :05:37. | |
our public is commission the highest possible quality of services for our | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
public, and the consultation that we are starting over the next week or | :05:42. | :05:48. | |
so is designed to involve everybody in drawing up the various options | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
that there will be in order to do this. Many thank you for your time. | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
A jury's been told that a man accused of murdering a Milton Keynes | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
teenager 13 years ago was linked to the case after a sexual assault on | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
another woman. Restaurant worker Shahidul Ahmed from Bletchley was | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
arrested in 2010 after his DNA was matched to that found at the scene | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
where Rachel Manning's body was discovered. Our reporter Neil | :06:09. | :06:15. | |
Bradford was in court. So, the court heard details of how Mr Ahmed became | :06:15. | :06:25. | |
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a suspect? That's right. It was two years after Rachel Manning's murder | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
when the 41-year-old was arrested. His DNA was entered onto the | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
national database and it was found to match a sample taken from a | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
steering lock found near the scene will stop it was used to eat Rachel | :06:39. | :06:47. | |
Manning around the head of wobbly after she had been strangled -- to | :06:47. | :06:54. | |
eat Rachel Manning around the head. She went missing after attending a | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
fancy dress party. Her boyfriend he was with her that night was | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
subsequently convicted of her murder, but his conviction was | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
quashed in 2008. The jury here at Luton Crown Court must decide | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
whether this restaurant Walker -- workup was responsible for her | :07:13. | :07:19. | |
murder. Other than the DNA, what is the prosecution's case? The jury | :07:19. | :07:25. | |
heard that there was also a hair found on Rachel Manning's clothing, | :07:25. | :07:34. | |
which was probably belonging to Shahidul Ahmed. The DNA and that | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
hair, the prosecutor says, formed the five banks of the case. The | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
others are that Shahidul Ahmed knows the local area particularly well, | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
and also he sold his car just eight days after Rachel Manning's murder. | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
Finally, his previous conviction for sexual assault mean they believe he | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
is capable of this crime. The trial continues. | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
A man has been in court this morning charged with manslaughter after a | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
grandfather died following an argument in a supermarket car park. | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
Alan Watts, who is 65 and from Biggleswade, will be sent to Crown | :08:07. | :08:13. | |
Court for trial. Emma Baugh has the details. | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
Charged yesterday morning and leaving court today on a brief | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
appearance to face a single charge of manslaughter. Alan Watts spoke | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
only to confirm his name in a very short hearing which lasted less than | :08:24. | :08:30. | |
five minutes. He was released on bail with a number of conditions, | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
that he must surrender his passport, that he must not drive or visit the | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
Asda store in Biggleswade. It was less than two weeks ago that the | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
supermarket car park is reportedly became the scene of a dispute | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
between Alan Watts and another man. It was here on Saturday, August | :08:47. | :08:53. | |
three that the argument was reported to have taken place in the disabled | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
parking area. A 64-year-old man Brian Holmes, was later found to | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
have serious head injuries and he died in hospital the following day. | :09:02. | :09:08. | |
Brian Holmes was a grandfather who lived in a nearby town. His family | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
said he had just been given the all clear from cancer. Little is known | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
about the details of what happened, and police have appealed for | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
witnesses. Alan Watts will now appear in court in Luton before the | :09:20. | :09:26. | |
end of the month. He will then face a Crown Court trial. | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
The debate over whether MPs should have second jobs re-ingnited today. | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
Sir Jim Paice who represents South East Cambridgeshire has landed a job | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
as the Chairman of First Milk, the UK's largest farmer-owned dairy. The | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
former Agriculture Minister begins the role in October. It'll only be | :09:41. | :09:49. | |
one day a week, but will constituents support him? | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
I would say it is impossible. On one county has got to look after the | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
people, but he has also got to look after the shareholders, and the two | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
don't tally at all. I think it is a conflict of interest. How can you | :10:01. | :10:07. | |
concentrate on two things? He has obviously got good commercial | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
knowledge and experience which justifies his position. The chances | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
are he will do a very good job. I don't see how it can compromise | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
things. Jim Paice has already announced he'll step down as an MP | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
at the next General Election in 2015. So, why didn't he wait until | :10:25. | :10:31. | |
then to take up a new role? I asked him this afternoon. | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
Well, things don't always work on a precise timetable. It is not too | :10:36. | :10:42. | |
years, it is only 14 or 15 months. Even so, it does mean there will be | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
an overlap. It is a very part-time role that I am taking on. I am | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
certainly still intending to look after my constituents to the best of | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
my ability, as I have always done. But not everyone agrees that MPs | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
should have second jobs. Ed Miliband raised it very recently. People want | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
to put a stop to what you are doing. I think that is outrageous, and I | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
think Ed Miliband is entirely wrong. I don't think the general public in | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
this country want a professional political class with no contact with | :11:13. | :11:20. | |
the rest of the country. There are people practising as GPs, several | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
practising dentists, there are still people doing some teaching - they | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
never get criticised. Either you can do something else and be an MP or | :11:28. | :11:35. | |
you can't. You mentioned salaries. Your predecessor in 2009 was on | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
�120,000 a year. What will your salary he? I am not prepared to go | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
into that. And I will take up the position, I will make the necessary | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
declarations to the register of members interest in parliament, but | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
I can tell you it is a lot less than that. They constituents we spoke to | :11:52. | :11:58. | |
today are quite angry. You can't make comments like that. I don't | :11:58. | :12:04. | |
know how many you have spoken to. Did you go out... Whether they are | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
one, two or five, they are still your constituents and they said this | :12:07. | :12:16. | |
should not be happen happening. Well, no MP gets 100% support from | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
all their constituents. It is not surprising that you will find some | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
constituents who don't like what the MP is doing. | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
One thing the company says it likes about you and why they wanted you | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
for the job, it quotes your considerable list of contacts. Do | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
you feel you are profiteering from your former role as a minister is to | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
mark no, I do not believe I am profiteering from any former role. | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
As a minister, I gained wide knowledge of the dairy industry. | :12:43. | :12:49. | |
Coming from a farming background, I had good knowledge anyway. I | :12:49. | :12:51. | |
passionately believe in the concept of Corporation. This is a business | :12:51. | :13:00. | |
owned by farmers. It is not some big big public plc. If I can provide | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
them with the leadership that they seek, then I shall be very pleased. | :13:03. | :13:10. | |
Sir Jim Paice. Plans to create an extra 500 places | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
for schools in Bedfordshire have been approved today. The council | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
granted permission to three schools, to create new places from 2014. The | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
council says it wants to ensure there are places for all local | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
children at local schools and the population in Marston and Ampthill | :13:23. | :13:25. |