09/02/2017 Points West

Western General Hospital considers restricting access to A during

certain hours but the trust insists it is not to save money.

A new report claimed there was a serious failure of leadership at

Bristol City Council. And they call the team continues

tomorrow. It looks mostly cloudy. A few snow flurries, details at the

end of the programme. While record numbers of people

are waiting hours in Accident and Emergency departments

across England, it's emerged Weston General

is considering reducing It could mean 999 patients

being diverted elsewhere. The hospital says the proposed

changes aren't about saving money, despite them being ?7

million over budget. The hospital has 320 beds, 200 and

-- 24-hour Accident and Emergency as well as a small intensive care unit

but money is tight and it struggles but money is tight and it struggles

to fill vacant medical roles. The hill fog trust described as being

clinically and financially clinically and financially

unsustainable for over a decade. -- the health trust. It has a budget

deficit of ?7.1 million and changes to the weird runs on the table. What

we need to do is work out how can create a hospital that has got a

long-term future that will help attract new staff who will come and

want to stay here permanently. And also by working together with other

organisations, both in the community but also the other hospitals, just

look at how we can address the financial challenges. One of the

changes could be to A here. Diverting 999 ambulances elsewhere

at night time, keeping the department open for walk-in patients

and scheduled ambulances. That would mean longer journeys for emergency

patients during those hours but the hospital says the proposals would be

to improve patient care, not to save money. The ideas being put forward

in this engagement exercise are really focusing on the rights,

services for patients, the rights, right ability to staff those

properly and the right clinical services. The hospital is very

important for those living nearby. The older generation don't always

want to go up to Bristol and I think it does everything that we need down

here. The NT if it is needed, it is the 24 hours a day if you need it.

Yes, it is pretty important to the community. Something that you will

need during your lifetime and getting older, it is nice to know it

is there. The public can see the proposals and have their say on the

North Somerset Clinical Commissioning Groups website, and

there will be open days awkward, organised over the next eight weeks

so that -- organised over the next eight weeks so people can get their

appointment face-to-face. Other NHS trusts are also on the

red. North Bristol has a projected deficit of ?46 million to the end of

March. -- projected. Onto some other news tonight. MPs

have released footage of a man being abducted from a bar in Bristol to

try to find witnesses. It happened in December. The 22-year-old was

dragged across the floor at the Blue Laguna on Gloucester Road, assaulted

and put into a car. He was driven to Bradley Stoke before escaping. Two

men have been arrested and released on bail.

An independent report has made scathing criticisms of the way

Bristol City Council's finances a big one. Adults of members being

misled and a serious failure of leadership recent years. It was

commissioned by the new mayor, who is grappling to make ?100 million in

savings. Our political editor reports.

This report says senior managers knew that planned savings were not

being achieved, but routinely being achieved, but routinely

concealed it. Breaking the bad news to Bristol, the mayor faced the

media as the council released the damning report. An independent

experts said a big savings programme had failed. Officials made

assumptions that were false or awful. The mayor was not alerted,

councillors were undoubtedly misled. It was, he said, a serious

collective failure of leadership within the Council, for which

several people, including elected politicians, there responsibility.

The suggestions in the report about how and why things happened where a

pretty explosive. Not only in terms of the absolute steal, but in terms

of the way it was done. -- the size. We are not happy with this at all. A

former GQ -- Chief Executive worked alongside the last mayor and has

been unavailable for comment. The former mayor issued a statement

saying he only heard about the review yesterday afternoon...

The counsellor he had in charge of Bristol's finances does express

regret and feels let down by officers. I end up feeling that I

have totally inadvertently misled councillors because I was being told

certain things were true when they were not. It does say there was a

failure of political leadership, that would include you. It would.

We... We did fail and the sense that we have this vast deficit. The

senior managers criticised in the report are gone, leaving councillors

shaken. Like a lot of people, when I read the report is pretty shocking

in places. The simple fact that this was hidden for several months and

actively hidden, it was not just a simple matter of people not

realising, they did know it was there and they did not share that

with councillors. The catalogue of failing to blame in this report have

sent shock waves through City Hall. A new chief executive and a new head

of finance are in post. The focus now is on putting things right and

of making ?100 million worth of savings over the next four years.

And brittle -- Bristol City Council said tonight that the report was

funded by an external grant and not from the council's offers.

As we revealed yesterday, Bristol is vying to be a national

The city wants a share of a billion pound fund to make it happen.

5G promises ultra-fast, ultra-reliable phone signal

It's set to revolutionise our homes and our streets as Robin Markwell

On the mean streets of the University of the West of England,

they have clocked up 500 miles in a car without a driver. It relies on

high-tech sensors to find its way around. Instant connection is

crucial, you cannot be buffering when cruising at 70 mph. They are

not quite ready for passengers yet but there is something more suitable

in sight. For a glimpse into our 5G future, I thought I would take a

little thin. At the moment, I am in charge of this simulator, but

flicked a switch and the computer takes control. It is slightly

disconcerting! Well, actually 5G is key. It is going to be key for

designing vehicles capable of driving probably ten times better

than a human driver. It was tough to hear. Instant reaction times, no

blindspot and the ability to see around corners. Now scientists think

robotic car will soon have the upper hand over on humans. Something that

brings together industry and all the different... Talk to another

visionary and you find the genes will not just be happening on our

roads. People are getting used to the idea that their homes are

becoming smarter. The poor are already controlling things like

thermostats, central heating, curtains, TVs. This idea of homes

having a brain that is collecting together lots of different data and

information, that older finds the way that telecoms need to operate. I

think we will see increasingly this idea of objects and devices that are

talking to the network all the time. It was time to look at the bigger

picture. With so many devices generating so much data, it was hard

to see how you could make sense of it all. I found my answer inside

Bristol's date at all. -- data though. Here's they sure what it all

means when everything is pooled together, Real Time Information

about the traffic on our roads, the quality of air, the health of the

population. It all promises a better understanding of who we are. But

with technology now moving quite so fast, some will fear this brave new

world risks spinning out of control. A cheery thought to leave you with!

That is it from us tonight. We are back with breakfast tomorrow from

half past six but from now, good night and I will leave you with the

weather forecast. Thank you very much. Good evening,

everybody. The underlay for the forecast has been run through

tomorrow and into the weekend will remain cold conditions that we have

seen today. Tomorrow, if anything, that it cold feeling because the

wind will be a little brisker. Certainly a lot of cloud around and

we will start to introduce a higher risk of seeing some light wintry

slurry is starting to a pure from the East, North East. Some of you

have seen a few of those during today, particularly in parts of

Gloucestershire. Expecting tonight to be dry. In a few sports, below

freezing. Into tomorrow, another markedly cold day. Exacerbated by

the fact the Bristol have picked up a bit and equally there will not be

much in the way of any brightness of note. I notice in the graphics the

signal for one or two wintry flurries to be running across from

the East, North East. If anything, the risk of those will increase

through the day and date overnight into Saturday. We might see some

heavy snow showers in some areas at least through that period.

Temperatures tomorrow broadly in a range of two to four. In the wind

chills, -- in the winter chill, pretty cold wherever you happen to

be. There will be showers around for some on Saturday. A wintry mix many

places. sleet and snow. The outlook, Sunday

will turn a bit less cold again. All the way up seven Celsius.

At this time of year we can often get the weather stories that reflect

the battle between winter and spring, and that's what's been

happening in New York in the USA. Yesterday, 17 Celsius, but today,

it's been bitterly cold, just a daytime maximum of -2, a