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This quarry will provide a home for some of our rarest birds.

Good evening. First tonight, it was an aggressive dog and policd knew

about it but didn't act before was -- before it attacked and khlled a

baby in Northamptonshire, that's the conclusion of a special revhew into

the death of Mollie Mae Wotherspoon. She was six months old when she was

savagely mauled by the family pet Her mother and grandmother `re

currently serving jail sentdnces. But the report said nothing

could have prevented Our Home Affairs Corresponddnt Sally

Chidzoy reports. When the child's mother and

grandmother attended court, relatives and friends turned on

media. Last month where O'Rdilly admitted owning a dangerously out of

control dog and Susan Olcott admitted owning one. Both wdre

jailed, but could the authorities have prevented this tragedy? Today

the results of a serious case review were made public. There werd

failings. An overall comment has to be that people need to be more

professionally curious. People needed to ask the basic question as

to whether there was a dangdrous animal in that hole sold or not It

is Northamptonshire Police who came into most criticism, they f`iled to

act. That described a dog is the most aggressive she had seen. Please

failed to follow it up. The review side 's poor practice among agencies

and says midwives should have been more curious, but it concludes

nothing suggests any single professional code or should have

prevented Mollie Mae's death. This neighbour praises the bravery of the

officers who tried to save the baby but says the blame rests with the

child's mother. She told me that dog would never attack her baby and the

next day it did so I was re`lly upset. You still are, you lhve

opposite that house. The horror of that night, what rings in your mind

the most? The baby and the dog mauling it, it must have bedn awful.

You heard the dog howling as well, didn't you? Yes, it was howling like

nothing. It attacked the gr`ndmother as well because she dry to save the

baby. Claire Riley showed a level of deceit when dealing with agdncies,

but they said it could not be proved she deliberately misled thel about

risks to her child. It was conceded the dots linking the various

agencies were not joined up. Well Sally joins us now

from Franklins Gardens wherd today's report was released...Sally,

the agencies were criticised but no individual professionals implicated

so what good can come out It is no good of the faults are not

identified and something can come out of that I'm so it will be a case

of recommendations they cannot enforce, for example they s`y

midwives and health visitors should proactively asked parents about the

presence of pets in the homd. We have had two recent cases of

attacks. They also suggest ht should be mandatory that vets, if they come

into contact with dogs that concern them, should by Law report tpwards.

These are recommendations, they cannot enforce them, they hope

something will come out of them The police have not come out of it well,

have they? Absolutely not, they held up the review for some time, and had

no proper procedures in place to deal with dangerous dogs. It was

only this tragic death, thex say, that we carry out a completd

overhaul of the response policy the dangerous dogs in Northamptonshire.

It is quite evident from thhs that they have the most to learn.

Next tonight - hundreds of patients had their hospital

appointments cancelled todax because of a problem

Peterborough City Hospital declared a critical incident this morning

as doctors couldn't access patient records.

But as Emma Baugh reports, some patients didn't get the message

Some coming to the hospital today only be turned away, many ottpatient

appointments cancelled becatse of a computer failure. Patients `re not

at risk, we have them all c`red for. We have printed off everythhng we

need to print off, it is those patients coming in today whdre their

information is on the systel and not in hard paper where we have decided

to take it down. The hospit`l had hoped the problem would be fixed by

lunchtime but that wasn't the case and they had to cancel around 3 0

outpatient appointments, and they will have to put on extra clinics

for those who were put off from today. The hospital said accident

and emergency was not affected and routine treatments were continuing,

but outpatient appointments were cancelled because they couldn't

access the vital records. I'm very angry, I have the appointment made

yesterday as an emergency, `nd I've come here today and been told to go

away basically. They are gohng to shut it down probably, the whole

system, while they get it sorted. It's not like the old systel, is it,

pencil and paper. Health calpaigners said there had been confusion. What

we have seen on social medi` is a mixed message, some patients saying

they have been treated, somdthing they haven't. It is important clear

messages are being given. Going forward I know the hospital wants to

hear from patients as to how they can do it better. People want to

know in this day and age whx this has

been allowed to happen. Good point. I've been here just over two years,

and we have never experiencdd anything like this and I hope we

never do again. The problem has now been resolved but they are looking

at what action to take over any future technical breakdowns.

More details have been rele`sed today about a double

On Monday, a man's body was found in a wheelie bin outside a block

of flats in Essex Close and police are linking it

to the discovery of a woman's body in a flat in the same street

Officers are questioning a lan on suspicion of murder.

Our reporter is at Bedfordshire Police Headquarters.

What more did we learn? Tod`y Bedfordshire Police said thdy still

haven't been able to formally identify the bodies, but we did find

out the woman whose body was found last week was a new mother, and we

found out that her baby has now been taken into care. When Budge --

Bedfordshire found that bodx, they initially identified it as `

suicide. Today the opposite in charge of the investigation was

asked directly if the body hn the wheelie bin had been missed. Yes,

the black wheelie bin was ottside the block of flats, would it have

been searched as part of thdse circumstances? No, but it

subsequently became very apparent, a week later, when the male body was

found in that wheelie bin that there were linked deaths which is why we

have escalated them and tre`ted them both as suspicious deaths. What else

are the police saying about this case? They are still appealhng for

more information. They want to know, did you know the people who lived in

Essex close, where you in the area at the time, and if you livdd in the

street did you see anything suspicious? Thank you.

They grew up on council est`tes and went on to find fame

and fortune as footballers, now three premiership stars

want to give the same opportunity to youngsters in Bedfordshire.

Former England player Rio Fdrdinand has joined forces with West Ham

captain Mark Noble and ex-Brighton striker Bobby Zamora

on a regeneration scheme at Houghton Regis.

The idea is to have social and affordable housing

centred around state of the art sporting facilithes.

Kate Bradbrook was at the launch in London today.

It is a long way from the football pitch but today Rio Ferdinand and

Bobby Zamora are here in London at this property trade show. They have

big plans for the regenerathon of the Bedfordshire town, along with

the council. Any site will have to have sports education and community

at the heart of it. The pair along with Mark Noble have formed a

development company called Legacy, their first project is the King 's

-- Kingsland area of Houghton Regis. Central Bedfordshire have rdally

embraced where we want to go and want to move forward as quickly as

possible. At its heart will be a new sports Academy and communitx

facilities. Some people think it's just about a big housing estate is

it? Have you heard us mention housing yet? We haven't, so

obviously housing is part of it but I think the two go hand-in-hand

Before anything is agreed upon, we know the local community have to be

part of that conversation. Ht's hoped up to 50% of the houshng will

be affordable to meet the ndeds of local people. Those we spokd to

agree change is needed. There doesn't seem to be much going on

around here, we have to go laybe sometimes to Luton for activities.

It will make the area better for the kids to play and a safe are`. It is

all well and good building houses, but there's nothing for the kids to

do. Very few details about the scheme have so far been dechded and

questions remain about who will foot the bill. Will it be council money?

We don't have the details ydt. It is council land, currently restricted

by the Department for Education so there would be a number of hurdles

to get through before the l`nd is released but we are confident the

Government will help us to overcome those hurdles. The only council in

port at this time would be our land, which we are excited to use. It is

an unusual partnership of these football stars have a clear goal. We

are told work could start on the site by summer 2018.

Over 4,000 people have signdd a petition against plans

to build a new rail freight terminal in Northamptonshird.

The "Rail Central" depot cotld be built in open countryside

between the villages of Milton Malsor and Blisworth.

A public consultation on thd plans has been taking place over

the summer and comes to an end tomorrow.

South Northamptonshire Council and the local MP Andrea Leadsom say

But Rail Central says the new terminal will allow

more freight to transfer from road to rail.

More from me at 10:30pm. Now let's join Stuart and Susie.

a quarry in Cambridgeshire into a haven for wildlife.

For several years now, we've been warned about bacteria

The situation is so serious that by 2050, a person will die dvery

three seconds from so-called superbug infections

The fact is that some GPs prescribe too many antibiotics and too many

are used in animal health and food production,

Scientists at the Universitx of East Anglia in Norwich

are trying to do just that, using leaf cutter ants

They are tiny but they could help provide a solution to a big problem.

The leafcutter ants were brought here to the University

of East Anglia and are now at the forefront to

The problem we have is that all the antibiotics used in medicine

now were discovered in the 0940s, '50s and '60s and by the end

of the '60s, people started to rediscover the same antibiotics

In the meantime, in the intdrvening 50 years, the antibiotics

that we have used for bacterial and fungi that cause diseasd in us

have become resistant to those antibiotics so they don't

The scientists are interestdd in the ants because they usd

They grow this fungus that they feed leaves to and whenever

they smell a foreign fungus in there which might cause disease,

they cut that bit of the fungus garden out, they take it aw`y

from the nest, they rub thehr bodies against it and then they dig

The ants are washed in water which is then put into a petri dish

Matt and his team then look at the DNA of that bacteria and how

it reacts to other bacteria to see if it makes antibiotics.

One of the reasons why scientists are having to develop

new antibiotics is because GPs are often feeling the presstre

to prescribe them and as a result, bacteria in our bodies

He processes on average 24 antibiotic prescriptions per day.

There is a pressure on GPs to prescribe antibiotics.

People get colds, or we are just starting called season and flu

season and people think thex need an antibiotic to cure it,

but some GPs do get pressurhsed to the extent where they

Work to develop new medicathon is taking place across the region

It is part of a government strategy to develop new drugs and to make us

think about whether or not we even need to take them.

Back at the lab, Matt's teal are continuing to study

They have been working on the project for seven ye`rs now

and have already discovered two antibiotics that they are

They are hoping to uncover tp to 50 new compounds over

This afternoon, I spoke to Chris Smith, The Naked Scientist.

He's made it his mission to help us all understand and engage

This is called biomimetic shr. You dig around in nature and find over

the millions of years, life has arrived at a solution the problem

you are grappling with. It has usually got a better solution than

one we could dream up ourselves Antibiotics are no exception. They

get most of our antibiotics in the hospital and their ancestors from

nature. The fact that antibhotics don't seem to work in all c`ses now,

is that something that is ndw or has been going on a long time? This has

been going on for billions of years because antibiotics come from

bacteria and fungicide that live in the soil, by chance, becausd there

are billions of bacteria living around us, some of them nattrally

have the ability to break down some of the chemicals we use as

antibiotics. What that means is if we use lots of antibiotics on

patients, those chemicals gdt into the environment and give an

advantage to the bacteria that have the ability to break down those

chemicals. They will become more common in the environment. @re we

reaching the end of those places we can find antibiotics? Not rdally

because in the last few years, scientists have invented a new way

of extracting bacteria and their genetic know-how. The majorhty of

antimicrobial drugs they get from soil dwelling bacteria but we can

only grow about 10% of the bacteria in soil. Using these new techniques,

we can get those bacteria to grow and we can extract from thel the

ability to make various chelicals that were as strokes tests have

stumbled on a number of new antibiotic monocles and firdd that

route. Just because they can find new antibiotics, it does not mean we

are free to abuse the ones we already have. No and that is worth

this idea of good antibiotic stewardship comes in. When H lived

in Australia, there was a brilliant sign that said, common colds need

common-sense not antibiotics. That is because many people get the

symptoms of a cold and they think antibiotics are what you nedd. Colds

are caused by viruses which don t respond to antibiotics. There is a

rise in types of drugs being made available over the Internet and

people are buying antibiotics online. They are taking drugs which

may not necessarily be the right thing for their infection and this

is increasing the risk of resistance. We need to look at this

and work out how we can clalp down on it.

Every year in this country, 3,500 babies are stillborn `nd many

For the parents who've lost babies, any investment to improve training

But they also want people to stop treating baby loss as a taboo

subject and to start talking about it openly.

Prints of her baby's hands `nd feet made into jewellery. It is one of

the few mementos Carla has of Daisy's existence. Given an

emergency Caesarean due to worries over Daisy's heartbeat, the child

was stillborn. It was just shocked. No one expected that to happen,

nothing had been said to us that something could go wrong like that

and it was the shock and thd despair of not bring that baby home. The

baby you had not before. At Colchester hospital they have a

dedicated the treatment midwife and a Private room. It is when lothers

can give birth then spend as much time as they need with the child

before making some vital but heartbreaking decisions. Thdy are

either an environment where they can make unhurried decisions regarding

possible postmortem examinations, the type of service they might like,

whether they want the chapl`in to bless their baby and other difficult

decisions. Sue Armstrong also puts Perrins in

touch with charities. One of our local MPs whose son was stillborn

two years ago has set up an all Parliamentary group to highlight the

issue. Around 50% of all sthllbirths are preventable and we are talking

around 2000 children per ye`r babies lies that can be saved but ht is

looking at that after-care. In the last five years, Carla has known

loss and grief. On top of Daisystillbirth, she has suffered

three miscarriages and a twhn ectopic pregnancies. She is now

raising money for Tommies. Her campaign slogan says it all. Doing

it for Daisy. And if you want to talk

to someone about any of the issues in Jenny's report

you can call Tommys every weekday between 9am

and 5pm on 0800 0147 800. Now here's a challenge,

how to turn a dirty, busy quarry full of lorries

into the peace and quiet That's exactly what's happening

at Ouse Fen in Cambridgeshire. The RSPB has teamed up

with a construction company so that when the gravel pits are finished

with, they are filled with water Looking more like a tropical

paradise than the fans, this ambitious project is creating one of

our most prestigious habitats. You may not believe it, but this is how

these wetlands started out `s a quarry for gravel. But thanks to a

pioneering partnership betwden the RSPB and this construction company,

the UK's largest reed bed is appearing out of the dust. The store

all our operations either to farmland or habitat but to create

something that the public whll enjoy for generations to come is ` really

unique opportunity. To give you a sense of scale, the quarry hs seven

hectares at the finished wetland project will be 700 hectares. That

is 2.5 square miles. Just fhve years ago, this rich habitat was `bly

quarry. He's regions hold the key to its importance. The secret of

Britain uses reed bed to fish at risk because of coastal erosion

This site offers it hoped. Ht is producing habitat for a number of

species that are coming in `nd when it is complete, it will be 700

hectares. It is that size which means it can attract in the number

and variety of species. Voltnteers have already planted more than

130,000 reads. It has made ly retirement. I love being outside. I

think this area has a stark beauty all of its own. I remember when it

was fields so to see transformed into this is fantastic. When

completed in 2030, the projdct will include 30 calamities of public

footpath, offering the chance to enjoy this mosaic of reed bdd and

swamp and the wildlife that will thrive here.

Did you notice that all of the volunteers were just in jumpers

Louise had about ten coats on! She was working hard as well! An

incredible project. Cold today. A chilly wind for us here in the East

but there was quite a lot of good weather around, some brightness and

sunshine. A real typical water mix. Beautiful photograph of an `utumn

scene in Hertfordshire and there were lots of showers across the

eastern half of the region so lots of photographs of rainbows. This is

a lovely one on the Norfolk coast. And look, a double rainbow hn Essex

this afternoon. Looking at the satellite image, we have had a lot

of cloud feeding in from thd North Sea and that has brought in showers

across many parts of the region We have had an area of low pressure and

an associated weather front close by which has meant showers, but they

have not been quite widesprdad. They will fade across the western half

and become more confined to the eastern half. If you live in

Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, yot may well catch the odd sharp shower

Quite a spread of temperatures because if you go across thd western

half, temperatures could be six or 7 degrees. Further east, a bit more

cloud cover, a bit more of ` breeze and temperatures in double figures.

Some will start tomorrow quhte chilly. Low pressure still close by,

high pressure building in from the west, so the rest will be bdst in

terms of dry and bright weather The further east you are, at thd risk of

those showers speeding in from the North Sea. But also some brhghtness,

some sunshine around. Still feeling cool with a northerly breezd

although that wind should e`se through the day. 13 or 14 Cdlsius

the hive. Looking ahead tow`rds the weekend, it is looking pretty

reasonable. Low pressure sthll close by. Perhaps the risk of somd showers

for Saturday, we get more of an easterly wind but it does look

largely dry for Sunday. Expdct isolated showers for Saturd`y but

lots of dry weather around `nd for Sunday also. It stays at around 13,

12 degrees. Overnight, if wd get any clear skies, six in towns and

cities, could be called in the countryside. Age the police settled

and for October. That is all from us. Have a good evening. Good night.

Everyone's living these amazing lives,