28/07/2011 Spotlight

Living with the death of your child - a family's anguish after their

son accidentally hanged himself on his bedroom blinds. I wouldn't wish

this on anybody. It's very important that this doesn't happen

to another child and any parents and family don't feel the way we do.

Caden's family are calling for a ban on corded blinds. Also tonight:

Keeping body parts to help with investigations. The families being

told organs of loved ones were withheld by police. And on a

mission in her millimetrery, the teenager going that -- memory, the

teenager going that extra mile for his grandmother. Safety campaigners

call them the hidden hazard of millions of homes and a coroner

today warned parents of their dangers. A Devon toddler died when

be became entangled in the cord of the blinds in his bedroom. His

parents have begun a campaign to make blinds safer. Our copblt was

at the inquest in Plymouth. Caden Laine was found by his mother in

his bedroom, hanging from a cord that adjusted the blinds. He was 20

months old. Nothing can describe it in words, it's the worst thing

that's ever happened to me and my family and Danielle's family.

Nothing will ever, ever come close. The British blind and shutter

association has made a video promoting safety. Without an

appropriate safety device fitted, operating cords represent a

strangulation hazard to young children. The European guidelines

say cords or chains should be out of children's reach or fitted with

a safety device to allow them to break in if a child becomes

entangled. But that is not mandatory. I wouldn't wish this on

anybody. So it's very important that this doesn't happen to another

small child and... Any parents and families don't feel the way we do.

It's just devastating. The royal society for the prevention of

accidents say on average they see two cases a year in Britain of

children being strangled in accident involving blinds. They

call blinds the hidden hazard of a home and want to see lops in chains

and cords -- loops in chains a cords phased out. The coroner said

he hoped the publicity would remind the parent of young children of the

need to be village last night. Blinds, he said, would continue to

present a danger, unless parents were aware of it. He also expressed

his condolences to the family. A verdict of accidental death was

recorded on Caden. His family provided these photographs with the

request I use this one to end my report. Michael Corley from The

Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents spoke to us earlier about

health and safety issues surrounding window blinds. I asked

him what the likelihood was that corded blinds could be banned.

not sure how practical a measure that would be. I know at the moment

we are working with the Government and the industry to introduce and

to help introduce a new standard, either at the end of this year or

next. We are talking about corded blinds, the ones with a loop that

you pull. If another blind can do the job, why make these at all?

Well in fact manufacturers are taking steps to sort of phase

operating cord out and there are cordless blinds available. But

they're not so widely available and they are more expensive. Safety

video were made with regards to this particular blind. The warnings

were there. Freak accidents of course do Saturdayly happen. How

far can you go with warnings, or can you never go too far with them?

I don't know about that. But parents can take steps if they want

to ensure the safety of their child. One is they could remove any way of

the child getting to the window frame, either a chest of drawers or

a chair and they can fix something to the window frame to tie the

operating cord in a figure eight, high up and out of way. And also if

where possible just not install blinds in the child's bedroom.

Where people have the blinds, there must be h millions of them, what

are you saying to them? We know there are roughly 200 million

blinds already fitted in the U can. What people can do is look on to

the web-site and click on the campaigns button and there is a lot

of practical advice to follow. Thank you. The Department of Health

has asked the NHS to look again at some homicides committed by mental

health patients to see if lessons can be learned. The report found

Russell Deane was let down because the Trust failed to act on the case.

Today it's the turn of Devon Partnership NHS Trust to scrutinise

four deaths that happened while the perpetrators where known to their

services between 2006 and 2007. The first case concerns Russell Deane,

a 25-year-old man with paranoid schizophrenia who beat his

grandmother Phyliss Deane to death with a hammer in June 2007. He

admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished

responsibility and was detained indefinitely by the courts under a

hospital order. With regards to case two, Adam Thomas was suffering

from a psychopathic illness when he beat Sharon Stokes to death after

meeting her in a nightclub on Valentine's Day 2007. He was

convicted of murder. Michael Palmer in case three stabbed Victor Chalk

in a Torquay apartment. In July 2006 he was sentenced to life for

murder. And in the last case discussed, someone referred to in

the report only as Mr Z, killed Robert Newby near Okehampton and

was convicted of manslaughter in 2008. All the cases have already

been fully investigated by the NHS trust, and three have been through

the criminal justice system. Today's report is looking at

whether the care the patients received contributed to the

patients actions and subsequently their victims deaths. Chris Lyddon

is in Taunton for us with more on today's findings. Yes, the report's

all around 200 pages or so long, conclude that three of the four

killings could not have been predicted, or prevented. But the

investigation's concluded one killing could have been prevented.

That was Russell Deane, the 25- year-old paranoid schizophrenic,

who beat his grandmother to death. The report says he was reluctant to

engage with treatment. He failed to take his medication. And used

illicit drugs. But it says if the trust has acted on the concerns of

his family and been more assertive in their care, the killing may not

have happened. I put this point to the trused. -- Trust. I would like

to extend our sympathys to all the families involved. We within the

trust, we're all held to account if the practice fails to meet the

standers that we consider are required. -- standards that we

consider are required. Well the report on the Russell Deane case

makes 14 recommendations. Improving record-keeping, improving diagnosis

and improving medication. And it in all four cases the investigation

found patients were all left vulnerable. Thank you. After the

loss of their loved ones, families of victims of crime in Somerset are

being contacted by police to say they've been buried without some of

their body parts. Organs and tissue were kept legally, but relatives

weren't told. Some were murder cases. John Ayres explains. They

did not have the right to take things without anybody's consent

whatsoever. Ann and Jane's brother Nigel died in 2003. The Just been

told that when their buried him, his brain was missing. I'm just

totally shocked. I didn't know what to do. I didn't know whether to

smash a window, smack her, I really didn't know. The force is now

investigating 100 deaths, looking at what tissue it has and talking

to the families. It said it understands this may be upsetting,

but Tish you -- tissue may be a critical factor in bringing an

offender to justice. And there is the rub for some experts. Victims

of crime may be able to help from beyond the grave. Take sudden

infant death. Retention of that material would allow us to

investigate any future theory of the cause by using the material.

Otherwise we have to wait on new cases coming and build up testing

of that theory. But keeping tissue and organs and not telling the

families is a difficult subject. A heart scandal at the British Royal

Infirmary was more than 15 years ago. Helen Ricard was the first to

find the truth. Families will be devastated to find they have buryed

a loved one with organs missing. Burying somebody is the last thing

you do for them and it affects your memories of them and to find

something like this years later is very traumatic. The neighbouring

Devon and Cornwall force is carrying out it own audit, saying

it is a complex process that will be completed in a timely fashion

and it is complying with the requirements of the human Tish yau

authority. -- issue authority. The South West has witnessed a solar

power gold rush in recent months, as renewable electricity producers

raced to meet the deadline for the most favourable feed-in tariffs.

But although those tariffs change in just a few days time, it seems

the solar revolution is far from over. Adrian Campbell reports. It

looks like a modern power plant in Spain. But this solar farm is

outside Plymouth. It has been built quickly to take advantage of the

Government's most favourable feed in tariffs, designed to kick start

the industry. The park betkpan produce deucing electricity --

began producing electricity four weeks ago. There are eight other

fields similar to this one here. From the start of August, revased

tariffs come into force. Small scale producers can receive a

tariff of up to 43 pence per kill awatt hour. But new soler farms

will have eight and a half pence per kill awatt hour. That is a big

cut. At the Cornwall renewable energy show, there is optimism

about the economics of solar energy. Tfrpblgt price 069 panels has

dropped -- The price of the panels has dropped since Christmas by 25%.

What is Louering our installation cost and brings more people into

the market. Because they can now afford to install solar PV. Today

there was more good news. The Cornish-based charity np Northern

Plus said �20 million is being made available to community groups to

You're watching Spotlight from the BBC. Stay with us. We're going to

be live in Dorset again tonight. Join us live here on the water at

Lyme Regis to celebrate 150 years Looks like they are having a good

time! After 80 years, Plymouth airport has seen its last scheduled

passenger flights today. For the next six weeks, passengers can

still check in at Plymouth, but they'll be bussed to Newquay to

board their plane. Plymouth Airport is due to close altogether in

December. Tomorrow evening our business correspondent Neil

Gallacher will be asking what's next for this site - and for the

city it's served. That's tomorrow A man at the heart of the Olympic

Games in Athens has given a frank assessment of the benefits he

believes Dorset will gain from staging the sailing events in 2012.

According to Spyros Capralos, now the president of the Greek Olympic

Committee, long-term benefits will depend on how people make use of

the experience. Weymouth and Portland Borough Council are

confident that the work it has done mean it that there will be a

lasting legacy. Here's the second of my special reports from Athens

as we pass the one year to go mark. The Olympics in Athens were never

intended to give grassroots a boost, but this hit the spot. What about

sport more generally? Do think it has inspired people to get more

active? Yes, especially in football. When we won in 2004, basketball,

football, everything. Britain has staked its name on 2012 increasing

the number of people taking up sport, especially youngsters. I am

following a club in Dorset to see if any legacy arrives. But I am

also examining the cultural legacy, too. Inspiring the next generation

in the arts is on the UK Games wish-list. Going to an open-air

theatre on a hillside there is also on offer. So are there more people

in the audience here because of what happened in 2004? I believe

that Greek people always like theatre. That is a now trawl --

National Heritage. If she was running a theatre Oram Museum in

Weymouth? I believed that if they create events not for the

impression, but turned lift control treasure, it is very important. --

cultural treasure. What is your advice to Dorset? I am not to --

and not the most familiar person with Dorset. People should not

expect but the Olympic Games are going to change their lives. It is

a fantastic moment in your life, but the 20 days of the Olympics

finish very quickly. afterwards? After, it depends on

who has taken advantage of this passage of the Olympic Games, that

will benefit mostly. There are some people who will not benefit at all.

Some will have it as a very nice memory in their lives. But some

others will manage to develop business thanks to the Olympics.

Thousands of years on, the country where the games were born is still

learning to get the most out of them.

Greece has its mind firmly fixed on financial survival at the moment.

There are bigger issues to consider than whether the legacy of the 2004

Games has been delivered. But even the most positive account I have

heard her comes with some degree of regret, lessons for our part of the

world as the Olympics fast The Cornish coast is rugged and

beautiful, and one teenager from the county knows pretty well every

nook and cranny. John Turner has spent the past three weeks walking

the coastal footpath in memory of his granny who died of cancer. The

18-year-old started at Hartland Point, and well over 300 miles

later, finished at Cremyll a few hours ago. John Henderson has the

My name is John Turner. I and 18, and for the past three weeks, I

have been hiking around Cornwall, and it has been absolutely

fantastic. And on a day like today, you can see why. I think this is

where I live, and I am very pleased. Today was the last of a three-week

hike which has generally been perfect.

You have gone the wrong way! John, who has just done his A-levels, has

seen the best of Cornwall and its people.

Things like meeting people, making friends, and people's generosity,

raising money. That was really amazing.

The Devonport High School for Boys people has slept in a hammock at

night, Eton army rations and endured some scary moments.

I didn't spend too long here. I went and camped right across the

estuary. But he has done it. He has raised money for charity after his

granny died of cancer. I wanted to see if I could rely on

myself, just sold a -- just for three weeks, and achieve something

at the same time. Hold your applause! Come down,

people. Just after half past three, he made it. His mum, Kate, was

there to see him. Brilliant. He has done superbly. His granny would be

proud, as well! We applaud him. The rescues and the memories. 150 years

of saving lives off the Dorset coast have been summoned together

in a huge celebration of the work of the RNLI in Lyme Regis. They've

been marking the occasion in the air, on the land and, of course, on

the water - from where we can join Heidi Davey now. She looks like she

is having a pretty good time. Welcome to the waters here at Lyme

Regis. You can hear that there are some high jinks behind me. There is

a tug-of-war between the crew of the lifeboats and the RAF. Both

teams are in the water at the moment, we are not sure who won.

Crew members past and present have been here to share their

experiences of 150 years of the lifeboats.

A sailor alone in the sea. Line Bay is a hazardous Coast line with few

safe harbours. Thankfully, this is only a practice, and a lifeboat is

close by. Over the last 150 years, it has this -- deployed at over

1,500 times, saved 310 lives. Today, lifeboatmen old and new received

recognition of that service from the are LN9 -- the RNLI's director

of services. It is an aggregate of 150 years, they started longer ago.

But there was a period when the station was closed as we went

through a transition from the old- style pulling boats to the more

modern inshore lifeboats. And what for the future? For two of the crew

who joined on the 17th birthdays, it is fantastic. It is a really

good feeling. As soon as the pager goes off, it is a rush of adrenalin.

To start with, it is all a bluff. It just happens. But after the

first few times, it is really good. And for water users, the lifeboat

is very important. Funny, it is. We are living on a boat for the next

week, so the lifeboats are incredibly important. I come from

Sussex. The lifeboat is the centre of the community here. With the new

lifeboat due shortly, the RNLI is looking forward to the next 150

We are joined now by Graham, the operations manager here at Lyme

Regis. What a week it has been. has been an amazing week. We have

had the Red Arrows, the RAF Falcons. And we have had the helicopter

display team from the Royal Navy, as well. And why is the lifeboat so

important to the heart of Lyme Regis? The lifeboat is an integral

part of the community. It is only a small town, but in the wintertime

it blows up to a massive 30,000, and all those people want to go

boating. We are here to get people out of trouble if it goes wrong.

Could marking the 150 years anniversary, there are people who

have come back who served 40 or 50 years. As an operations manager, it

has been a great honour to meet people past and present, some quite

senior guys who served during the war, when the maritime craft rescue

unit were here. Fate has been amazing. I think you some good up.

You said, once a lifeboat man, always a lifeboat man. Yes, and we

will always invite the senior guys back, whenever they want to, come

to the station, have a cup of tea. Thank you.

We did mention earlier that the Calcutta Cup is also happening. The

boat that took it was called Penny, and she was from Portland. The

celebrations have quietened down a little bit, but they are continuing

until Sunday. Hopefully David has some good news on the whether

There is a little bit of a fly in the ointment, a band of cloud that

comes in tonight, and could give us a few showers. We will get some

sunshine tomorrow, but perhaps not as nice as today. An area of high

pressure is coming our way for the weekend, but trapped within it is

this trouble somewhere the front. It will be slow to move, and it may

well act as a focus for a few showers during the course of the

afternoon. Once we lose that, the area of high pressure settles in

for the weekend. Don't worry too much about these weather fronts,

they weren't really get to our shores until probably late on

Sunday. So, this was the picture from earlier on today. We have had

some cloud come and go. First of all, let's go to St Agnes, where

our cameraman, Tony, was out enjoying some beautiful weather.

And then to the Rockwell dam area, where there was some people

enjoying some more find weather, too. Plenty of water coming down

the river, and it looks like it is set fair as we move through the

next two days. No real appreciable rain in the forecast, which

includes the rain ahead. Some of this Clyde will thicken overnight

tonight. -- some of this cloud. A little of everything overnight

tonight, but the one thing we are fairly confident of is a fairly

warm night. Overnight temperatures no lower than 13 or 14 Celsius for

most of us. Tomorrow we should have some sunshine, but also quite a lot

of cloud around. One or two showers, fairly isolated but mostly confined

to the eastern edge of Devon and up into Somerset. A very light wind,

variable at first, almost calm inland, then a gentle onshore sea

breeze will develop as we moved into the afternoon. Temperatures 22,

possibly 23 Celsius as a maximum figure. For the Isles of Scilly,

fine and dry. At times of high Not much for our surface, perhaps

as much as three feet, and clean on the north coast, and the south

coast will be very flat tomorrow. There is the coastal waters

Here is the forecast all the way through and including the start of

next week. It is generally dry, that is the first thing to say.

Also, some spells and sunshine -- some spells of sunshine on Saturday.