25/06/2014 Look North (Yorkshire)


25/06/2014

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A former builder from Leeds, who today lost his fight to change the

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law on assisted suicide, has called the decision cruel and barb`ric

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Paul Lamb was paralysed in ` car crash and is in constant pahn.

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He wanted doctors to be allowed to help him end his life.

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But although the Supreme Court ruled agahnst him,

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it did urge parliament to examine the law, as Spencer Stokes reports.

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Should a doctor be allowed to help Paul Lamb take his own life

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24 years ago, the former buhlder was paralysed from the neck down.

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He fears that the day will come when his life is no longer worth living.

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Since last year, he's been fighting a legal battle to have the ban on

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The Supreme Court began hearing the case last December,

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and today seven out of nine judges rejected the appeal.

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I don't deserve to be punished like this.

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I'm now at the stage where there is anger with me because it is

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But many doctors are extremdly uneasy about any change to

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the assisted suicide law, and they have welcomed today's ruling.

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The Supreme Court have made the correct decision and it's in

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This is clearly a very diffhcult and emotive area,

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If the line in the sand movds, and it's a massive change to

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the criminal law, then people could become coerced, encouraged to think

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If they are seen as a burden, as costing too much money.

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It's difficult to compare to other jurisdictions, but in

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Washington State, where asshsted suicide is legal, 61 percent

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of people who've gone for assisted suicide have said that they've done

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It now seems this will becole a matter for MPs to decide on,

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the highest court in the cotntry thinks it's time for elected

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politicians to give the fin`l ruling on the right to die. Previots court

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rulings have maintained that assisted suicide is a matter for

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Parliament, but today's Supreme Court jtdgement

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goes a step further, suggesting that MPs tackle this thorny issud.

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Paul's case may now become a matter of political debatd.

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Doncaster Council is set to give up the residential

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The cabinet voted this afternoon to farm its remaining seven holes out

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to a charitable trust, or close them all together `nd move

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more than one hundred residdnts to private care providers.

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At an emotional meeting campaigners called the decision shameful.

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Outside the council offices in Doncaster, a silent protdst.

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What is proposed today is not in the best interest and welfare

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Closing three day care centres for adults with learning

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difficulties and ridding itself of the seven remaining residential

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That would affect people like Mick and Irene and their dad.

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When our dad is safe we know we can go to bed at night and sleep.

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I don't want to move because I know everybody thdre.

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They're set up in favour of people like me.

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Doncaster is only the latest authority to have to wrestld with

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the question, how much should we pay for care and who should provide it?

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The meeting became heated when councillors voted to close

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As for the residential homes, a charity may take them over

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If not, they will shut too, and the people who live

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We are saying we are actually making a future`proof service,

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providing for the most vulndrable, given that we have

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an extended number of years where we have growth in the population.

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We are future`proofing servhces for the most vulnerable.

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The campaigners say they ard now considering mounting a legal

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A man has been charged with the murder of a man who was beaten

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to death while on his way home from work in Sheffield.

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Simon Holdsworth's body was found in a field in the Hackenthorpe area

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Shaun Richard Wainwright, who's 45, will appear before Sheffield

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Police are appealing for witnesses after a minibus containing six

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children, their parents and another adult, crashed into the central

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It happened on the northbound carriageway between junctions 3

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The 33 year old mother of the children, who are aged betwden four

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months and nine ears old, stffered potentially life altering injuries A

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four year old boy and a nindteen year old man were also injured.

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A mother who lost both her hands and feet is to be given the UK's

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first ever double hand transplant at the Leeds General Infirm`ry.

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44 year old Corinne Hutton, from Scotland, has undergond

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a series of tests to ensure she is suitable for the operation, which

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Last year the Leeds team successfully carried

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out the country's first ever single hand transplant.

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Corrine says the operation will change hdr life.

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I'm excited about the fact that I will wake up with hands that work.

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I don't need to zip them on or attach them.

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There's a good chance of having sensation back.

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Cloudy at times and there whll be some sunshine around. High pressure

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is still just about in charge, that this system will bring rain from the

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south during Friday. Sunny spells and scattered showers over the

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weekend. The cloud has been sick in some western areas this evening The

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enough to produce some spots of rain. Temperature is coming in

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around 10 Celsius. Thursday, cloudy times especially in the West. There

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could be a little patchy rahn showing up across the Yorkshire

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Dales. Elsewhere it should be fine and that cloud will bring the best

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of the sunshine towards the east coast. A lovely day in Scarborough.

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Temperatures in the range of 15 to 18 Celsius. Turning wax frol the

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South on Friday. Saturday is showery but it does improve as we hdad into

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Sunday. `` turning wet. Herd is the national summary.

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unsettled and there would be heavy and thundery downpours around. Good

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evening. A little bit later than usual. The weather over the next

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couple of days will change. Let me show you the satellite picture. You

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can see the cloud streaming across the Atlantic. This weather front

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Weller upset the weather across -- will upset the weather in the

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