21/10/2016 Look East (West)

First tonight, the Bedfordshire man who made ten visits to his GP

and to A before doctors realised he had a blood clot on his brain.

Alex Ray from Shefford was told he had concussion

He's suffered permanent damage to his sight and has now received

Some guy stole my mobile phone and I took a blow to the head.

In the days after that he was fired from his well-paid finance job,

his wife left him, taking their two-year-old son,

after bizarre behaviour brought on by a brain haemorrhage,

undiagnosed by doctors for three months.

A lot of blurred vision and massive headaches.

Then in the later stages I couldn't walk properly.

One of the doctors said I was walking like a drunk person

Alex Ray first came here to the A at Lister in Stevenage.

They had a look at him and then let him go.

He then went to his GP surgery in Shefford on eight different

occasions, seeing eight different doctors.

They thought he may have an ear infection.

Finally, fearing for his life, he came back here.

With a blood clot on his brain still unfound, they sent him home.

Everyone was responsible because, on each occasion,

had any one of them said, "Get yourself to hospital,

I'm arranging a scan for you," the head injury

would have been revealed and different treatment

would have occurred, resulting in Alex probably

saving his eyesight, certainly making it a lot better than it was,

and he would have retained the executive brain function which he

After a seven-year legal battle, finally a pay-out

I'm still not happy but I can't turn back time so I have

I just hope it doesn't happen to anyone else in a similar

The Trust told us, although the majority of Mr Ray's

claim was against the GP practice, the Trust has accepted

it was wrong that he was not referred for a CT scan.

It's hoped the settlement agreed will go

Eventually a call to an out of hours service led to

His eyesight damaged for good and signed off work.

Now he just wants to be there for his son.

Police have named the woman who was found dead at a flat

in Luton days before a man's body was found dumped in a bin.

Tabassum Winning, who was 34 and from Pakistan, was discovered

at her home in Essex Close, 12 days ago.

A week later a man's body was found in a wheelie bin outside.

A man has been arrested in connection with both deaths.

Police are talking to the bus company, Stagecoach after a guided

bus was involved in a crash in Longstanton last night.

Emergency services were called to the busway crossing on Station

road following a collision with a supermarket delivery van.

It's the third time this year there's been an accident

A Ukip councillor from Cambridgeshire who came second

in the party's leadership election says she won't stand again.

Lisa Duffy, who's a councillor in Ramsey, has told the BBC she'll

leave it to others to fight for the leadership of her party.

Ms Duffy was beaten by Diane James, who stood down as leader

Plans to close six of the main routes into Cambridge at rush hour

The Greater Cambridge City Deal was trying to keep traffic

out of the city centre, to reduce air pollution

The plan led to protests from both commuters and businesses.

Tonight, as ever, the evening rush hour in Cambridge was busy.

Cars crawling along Hills Road as commuters

But part of a plan to ease this congestion is set to be abandoned

The plan was to close parts of this road as well

as five others in and out of Cambridge to traffic during the

morning and evening rush hour, in order to make it easier for bikes

The proposals were met with vociferous opposition.

Protests were held, and more than 10,000 people

And now the council is thinking again.

The proposal to put six points at different places was going to

restrict traffic to too great an extent,

so we get the message from city businesses

who are doing deliveries and residents living

within the city centre that we have to look again at those proposals

and make sure that what we come back with next time is a practical

solution to gridlock and bus unreliability.

This is an embarrassing U-turn, isn't it?

Well, no, it's listening to the public.

Three weeks ago, we spoke to Pete Howard

a courier firm, who was worried that road closures would affect

Given the number of roads and the issues around

them, we are having to come in right round

When we met up again today he was pleased that the council

I won't take it as written in stone until it

But, yeah, it is a very positive reaction and it shows

10,000 people on a petition, many business owners.

It is good they are paying attention.

Councillors still plan to go ahead with other parts of the City Deal,

including introducing a tax on parking at offices

and redesigning roads to make them better for bikes and buses.

But, for the time being at least, traffic will be allowed to

crawl along some of the city's busiest roads.

It's been announced Raine Spencer, the stepmother of Diana,

Princess of Wales, has died aged 87 after a short illness.

Raine moved into the Althorp estate near Northampton after she married

Diana's father, Earl Spencer, in 1976.

She lived on the Northamptonshire estate until 1992 when

Her Here's Dan with a look ahead to the weekend,

mother was the romantic novelist Barbara Cartland and she remarried a

Just a few showers feeding in from the north-east from time to time but

much of the day should be dry. Highs of 13 or 14. On Sunday mist and fog

will be more extensive and it could be locally dense and cause

disruption to channel -- travel first thing. It will eventually

clear on the global break-up. Much of the day will be dry and

temperatures fairly similar at 12 or 13. All change on Monday with cloud

thickening. Patchy rain spreading further south. More detail with the

National forecast. sunshine to be enjoyed. Louise Lear

has the national forecast now though.

Good evening. Heading off to bed wondering what is in store for the

weekend? Pretty much what we have seen this week. Today we had a fair

amount of cloud around and a few showers coming in off the North Sea

coast. Topping and tailing the country, there was some beautiful

spells of sunshine. It was glorious in the Shetland aisles this

afternoon and down towards Cornwall as well. As for the weekend, it

could start off on a chilly note with some patchy fog and frost, but

then hopefully we should see some sunny spells coming through. The

showers always likely to be out towards the east. The showers

continuing this evening and overnight. Further west under

clearer skies yet again, we could see the temperatures falling away

and we could see some patchy fog which may well be