Browse content similar to 26/01/2016. Check below for episodes and series from the same categories and more!
Line | From | To | |
---|---|---|---|
I'm Victoria Derbyshire, welcome to the programme. | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
This morning - one of Britain's greatest ever athletes tells us | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
what the sport can do to regain your trust | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
following the huge doping and corruption scandal. | :00:17. | :01:33. | |
Whether you're a sports fan or not you can't fail to have been shocked | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
by the various allegations that seem to have engulfed pretty much | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
Corruption in football, match-fixing in tennis | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
There we have seen allegations of blood doping, cover-ups, | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
extortion, claims that the London 2012 Olympics was sabotaged | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
by widespread inaction against athletes with suspicious | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
doping profiles, with Russia accused of running | :01:57. | :01:58. | |
Russia has since been banned from competing. | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
Today MPs will get a chance to quiz the boss of UK athletics | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
and the boss of UK anti-doping - we'll bring you some of it live | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
And in a minute we'll talk to Paula Radlciffe and the chair | :02:13. | :02:19. | |
of the Culture, Media and Sport committee. | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
Really keen to hear from you this morning on how much your trust has | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
Whether you're a sports fan or not you can't fail to have been shocked | :02:28. | :02:42. | |
Here's a reminder of the allegations that world athletics is facing | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
and an explanation of what blood doping is. | :02:46. | :03:47. | |
Do you think that because you hold the record, which still stands | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
from 2003 by a whole three minutes, that has led to some to question | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
It means it is looked on with maybe some suspicion, | :03:55. | :04:01. | |
The whole point of my career was to see what I could do, | :04:02. | :04:11. | |
I wanted to be able to get to the end and say, yes, | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
that was the best I was capable of doing. | :04:15. | :04:21. | |
My recommendation is that the Russian Federation be suspended. | :04:22. | :04:44. | |
The issue we now have to confront is, what is it we need to put | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
in place, and some of that is already under way, | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
that means we have never return to this horror show again? | :04:52. | :05:03. | |
With us this morning, Paula Radclife, British marathon | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
world record holder who has spoken out about doping. | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
She says her name was falsely linked to doping by the chairman | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
of the group of MPs who'll be quizzing athletics bosses today. | :05:13. | :05:14. | |
Conservative MP Jesse Norman is the chairman of that committee, | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
the Culture Media and Sport Select Committee, | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
he's also with us, though he doesn't want to talk | :05:21. | :05:22. | |
Mr Norman, are you convinced that Lord Coe is the right man to lead | :05:23. | :05:34. | |
world athletics governing body, the IAAF? I'm perfectly happy to talk to | :05:35. | :05:42. | |
Paula, but you hadn't discussed it earlier on. With regard to Lord Coe, | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
we are in the middle of a process at the moment of investigating these | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
very serious allegations and charges into blood doping and the status of | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
the IAAF and it's a long process. We have been thinking about it and | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
working on hearings now for several months and once we come to a | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
conclusion, we'll look at the recommendations we are going to | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
make. But it was very noticeable last week that the chairman of the | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
Independent Commission at the World Anti-Doping Agency made a point that | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
he thought that Lord Coe was the best person even despite the | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
difficulties that the IAAF has been involved in recently. So that is | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
good enough for you? I'm not coming to a view at the moment. The | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
committee's investigation is still under way. | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
What will help you make your mind up about Lord Coe? Well, we'll take all | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
the evidence there and then we'll come to a view as to what we think | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
needs to be done to clean up the sport and restore public confidence | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
in it and it may be that Lord Coe's status is one of the things we | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
consider or it may not. By far the most authoritative study done in | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
this area by an independent agency has the view that he is the best | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
person and that I think is an important indicator of where expert | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
opinion and independent expert opinion lies. You will be | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
questioning the boss of UK athletics, the chairman today, is it | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
likely that they knew about the doping allegations globally? We | :07:11. | :07:17. | |
don't know that. What we do know though is that UK athletics came out | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
a few weeks ago with a very punchy manifesto for what it calls clean | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
athletics and that contains some things that have proved | :07:27. | :07:28. | |
controversial, the idea that records should be reset in some way, but | :07:29. | :07:35. | |
it's also including some sensible ideas for more testing, more | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
independence, restructuring of the IAAF, and more disclosure of blood | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
doping scores. Those are the kinds of things that are going to need to | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
be part of a comprehensive package to clean up the sport. That's why | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
many of the recommendations have been widely welcomed. It's | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
interesting that you didn't use the word sensible about the suggestion | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
of wiping out all the world records and starting again. Are you not keen | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
on that? It's not clear that that's what they are saying. What they said | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
was draw a line under it. It may be that they want to say there was an | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
era of athletics ending with the introduction of what they call clean | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
athletics and under the new rules, there'll be other records, so I | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
don't think it's about necessarily eliminating. I'm not speaking for UK | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
athletics but it may be their position is not about destroying old | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
records so much as just creating a basis on which new records can be | :08:31. | :08:40. | |
won and made. What do you think about the fact that Adidas are | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
terminating their sponsorship early? It's interesting and shows the | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
difficulties under which that organisation has been placed and at | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
one level it's a recognition of some of the public scorn that's been | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
levelled at the IAAF. On another level, it's a, I suppose, a | :09:00. | :09:05. | |
mechanism to deploy sponsorship money in areas and it sends a | :09:06. | :09:12. | |
message that concern is not just amongst Parliamentarians and | :09:13. | :09:14. | |
individual members of the public, but also amongstst the business | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
community. When we had, in a different context, sponsors of Fifa | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
come up in front of us in the committee in a Park Le | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
investigation, we were very clear with them and they were very clear | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
with us that they were backing the process of reform. So public | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
pressure on the sponsors can make a real difference and the same is true | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
of the broadcastest, such as the BBC and others. | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
I'm glad you said you were happy to talk to talk to Paula Radcliffe | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
because after the hearing in September into doping allegations, | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
Paula Radcliffe's name emerge and she said she felt forced to defend | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
her reputation. I know you've said it wasn't your intention for any | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
names linked to doping Al gaiingtss to come out, but hers did -- | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
allegations. Would you like to take this opportunity to apologise to her | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
now? Well, I think the truth of the | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
matter is, I said then that since I wasn't naming Paula, no apology is | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
required. It's a terrible shame her name was linked with the hearing and | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
I'm amongst millions of people in this country who have nothing but | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
admiration for the sporting achievements linked to her name so I | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
think that's absolutely fantastic. What I do think is a pity and what I | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
had not realised at the time was that Ms Radcliffe was pursued by | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
people in and outside the sport on this issue be of hand and that may | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
have been why the link was made but it had nothing to do with me. I will | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
tell you one thing, the committee hearing was three-hour meeting, we | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
went into all the different areas of the blood doping initial scandals, | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
including reports about Russia, Kenyan athletics, it would have been | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
inappropriate not to raise the question about whether British | :10:57. | :10:58. | |
athletes had been involved in any way, but we did not mention | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
athletes had been involved in any names, we were careful not to and | :11:03. | :11:04. | |
there was no suggestion in anything that I said that Ms Radcliffe was | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
involved and I'm very sad that it was taken that way. | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
Let us remind the audience what you said. Here is the relevant clip. | :11:13. | :11:20. | |
When you hear that the London Marathon potentially the winners or | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
medallists, potentially British athletes are under suspicion for | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
very high levels of blood doping, when you think of the effect that | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
has on young people who hold that event and the community nature of | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
that event, what are your emotions about that? It could only be Paula | :11:38. | :11:44. | |
Radcliffe potentially the winners or medallists at the London Marathon, | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
aside from the wheelchair race, it could only have been her? Well, of | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
course I don't think that's true because there are Paralympics and | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
frankly for what I knew at the time there were medallists as well. There | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
was no intention to name Paula Radcliffe there at all and, if you | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
look at the questions, those are not just about the London Marathon, they | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
are about people competing in other sports as well. So actually, that's | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
just been built up and it's a terrible shame that it has been, but | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
as I say, it's nothing to do with what I said or with what the | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
committee was working on. Let me bring in Paula Radcliffe, Jesse | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
Norman says it was a shame, it was sad and no apology is needed. What | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
would you like to say? Personally I do feel that I would appreciate an | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
apology. He may not have intentionally meant to name me, but | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
in fact if you ask him to name a winner of the London Marathon, I | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
wouldn't imagine that he could name any of the otherses in that period | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
and it shouldn't have come down to that and I think my question would | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
be, did he have any conflict of interests to declare before that | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
hearing in terms of the newspapers that were pursuing the harassment of | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
me and threatening me and that he had worked and left the hearing arm | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
in arm with those journalists. That would be a huge question for me. But | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
first and foremost, for that committee and to chair that | :13:11. | :13:17. | |
committee, to hear accusations made against a sport governing body and | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
not have any representative of that body there, nor any expert with a | :13:22. | :13:24. | |
full knowledge of the complicated situation we were discussing, and | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
just to have the one-sided expert who was making that accusation, made | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
a number of errors during that hearing which were not picked up on | :13:32. | :13:34. | |
because they couldn't be because you wouldn't expect the MPs to be able | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
to have the knowledge to understand the mistakes that were being made. | :13:40. | :13:42. | |
It smacked to me a bit of a set-up and a little bit of an exercise for | :13:43. | :13:49. | |
the MPs instead of an actual exercise to get through to the roof | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
and to try and determine, is the UK huge, does it have a big problem | :13:56. | :13:58. | |
with athletics. I would say it doesn't. If you ask Mr Norman is he | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
aware of the sport which has the highest number of athletes serving a | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
doping ban, I would hazard a guess he wouldn't be able to answer that | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
and wouldn't be able to say how many athletes from track and field are | :14:13. | :14:15. | |
serving a ban. A lot of points there. Could you name any other | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
British winners or medallists from the London Marathon from the period | :14:22. | :14:29. | |
of 2001? The answer is no, not at the moment. And I'm not sure there | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
are... Only Paula Radcliffe? That shows my ignorance. Which is why you | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
can't be surprised that her name emerged after your hearing? No, | :14:41. | :14:49. | |
because there are paralympians as well and this is a matter of joining | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
various dots together. What I would encourage your viewers to do is to | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
spend the time and look online at the hearing because they'll see it | :14:58. | :15:00. | |
was a three-hour discussion of all these things. Just to pick up on | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
some of the other points that Paula Radcliffe's made. We had invited the | :15:05. | :15:11. | |
IAAF from the outset and Lord Coe specifically to give testimony to us | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
and it took some time to arrange that but there's always been that | :15:16. | :15:18. | |
offer on the table. That particular hearing was on the World Anti-Doping | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
Agency and on UK anti-doping, that's why we focussed on those | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
institutions, as we are focussing today on UK athletics. I | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
emphatically did not have any conflict of interest. Anybody can | :15:34. | :15:36. | |
check that. There was a public concern raised by reports in the | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
Sunday Times and in other newspapers which we were under obligations, as | :15:41. | :15:43. | |
MPs, as representatives of the people, to investigate. We did | :15:44. | :15:50. | |
investigate them. And we were very clear not to take any evidence or | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
information from the Sunday Times or any other newspaper in terms of | :15:56. | :15:58. | |
blood scores or any of that stuff, we were not interested in that, we | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
were trying to get to the real questions which is, what should the | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
international UK regulatory authorities have been doing and was | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
there a case for tightening up the law or the rules and that's the | :16:09. | :16:11. | |
focus we'll continue to have and continue to make. | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
Do you want to reconsider, an opportunity to apologise to Paula | :16:17. | :16:24. | |
Radcliffe now? I am perfectly happy to say that I am sorry to hear what | :16:25. | :16:27. | |
happened but it has been taken in this way, but it really has had | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
nothing to do with what I was saying all my committee was doing. I think | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
it is a terrible shame that has been taken that way. Paula Radcliffe? I | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
accept that, and I think that from this point what I would like to see | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
is a move forward in terms of getting to the truth, the truth | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
coming out, but also making sure that in all sports, the federations, | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
the integrity and the Queen of board moves forward in the right | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
direction. If you ask me what a government select committee can do, | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
in that respect, in terms of improving things, it is working | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
towards pushing through legislation to increase doping bans and | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
deterrent and possibly look towards criminalisation of the whole chain, | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
including the supply of the doping materials, and the athletes and | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
coaches who take that decision to take the short cut and to cheat. Pal | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
hounded have you felt in the last few months? -- how hounded? It has | :17:28. | :17:35. | |
improved in the last few months. The shock and the toughest time for me | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
was at the beginning period from July when the Sunday Times | :17:40. | :17:41. | |
journalist first came to me and refused to give me the opportunity | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
to sit down with the Australian experts and to reasonably discuss | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
these things, to then hearing about other athletes caught up in it, to | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
having to make the decision on whether or not I would publish my | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
blood data at a time when it wasn't fully understood and I did not have | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
the backing of the explanations of the IAAF and the world blood | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
experts. That was the hardest time. Now I think it has come through | :18:10. | :18:16. | |
that, I am probably at one with many in athletics, very shocked and angry | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
at the allegations that have come out, but now I really am part of the | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
view that we don't just criticise, we proactively work together and try | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
to find a solution within the IAAF and the sport of athletics to get | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
back to where Richard B, which I feel is a very strong support, a | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
sport that I love and which I would like to make better for everybody | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
involved -- to get back to where it should be. | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
As you say, you were cleared by the IAAF, they say you were accused of | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
cheating based on gross and interpret a -- misinterpretation of | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
raw and incomplete data. Now we know what we know about IAAF, do you | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
think some people will still think you cheated? I think that is the | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
damage that has been done. It is one of the things I find hardest to come | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
to terms with, something I have always been so strongly against and | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
spent my whole career with an athletics campaigning for better | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
tests, to have been accused of something so ab warranted to me and | :19:19. | :19:21. | |
to know that out there, no matter what I do, there will always be some | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
people who unfortunately will believe that -- something so | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
abhorrent to me. I think damage has been done to my reputation, but I | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
can stand strong because I know there is no truth and the people who | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
really matter to me believe that, but it is still not a nice situation | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
to be in. I think there is where the international bodies like Wada and | :19:45. | :19:50. | |
the IAAF have let me down, because their first responsibility should be | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
to every clean athlete that they keep their sport clean so they can | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
keep the sport on a fair and level playing field and not be put in | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
situations where they have their performances doubted. | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
The committee hearing, this is the third, Jesse Norman peers group of | :20:08. | :20:13. | |
MPs are carrying out. The boss of UK athletics, Ed Warner, the chief | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
executive of UK Anti-Doping, they are both witnesses giving evidence. | :20:18. | :20:20. | |
Is it possible that they really could not have known what was going | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
on when it comes to doping at a global level? You had to be very | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
careful and you have to understand that lots of people in athletics had | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
suspicions and they knew there was doping going on at some level within | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
athletics. But you cannot ban the based on suspicion and allegation, | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
you had to have enough proof. You cannot ever put an innocent athlete | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
in the situation that I have been in, for example. But I wonder | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
whether enough questions are being asked by well-paid administrators? | :20:57. | :20:59. | |
It is not the paid administrators, it is the way the system needs to be | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
set up, so there needs to be a much bigger investment in anti-doping. | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
That whole anti-doping integrity unit needs to be separate from the | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
rest of the athletics federation so there cannot be a crossover in | :21:13. | :21:15. | |
information which enabled the corruption and the horrible things | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
we are learning about, so we need a much greater investment of funds to | :21:22. | :21:24. | |
be able to work on lots of different levels. The me, that is not just | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
more investment in science and testing, it is the intelligent side | :21:30. | :21:32. | |
as well so that you concentrate those efforts in the right place. It | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
is making sure that, across-the-board, it is a level | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
playing field. If you ask about the level of anti-doping controls within | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
the UK, it is very different to that, obviously, in Russia, and also | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
other countries in Africa and the Middle East. There are lots of areas | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
that need to, so there are no places where athletes are not subject to | :21:56. | :21:58. | |
the same controls, all athlete should be tested the same number of | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
times and to the same standard before going to an Olympic Games, a | :22:04. | :22:06. | |
championship or any other competition. | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
This proposal from UK athletics, or a suggestion to kick off debate | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
about world records being wiped and started again, Jesse Norman has said | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
it is not clear what they mean, I am sure he will get qualification from | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
Ed Warner, what do you think of this? I am sure that Ed himself | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
would say they were trying to create talking points and to take a | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
proactive step towards restoring confidence and public perception of | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
athletics as a clean sport. And they were trying to go. I think moving | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
there with the world records is not something I would ever back, it is | :22:44. | :22:49. | |
not a point we can be at now, you are essentially making a clean | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
athlete suffered twice. I, for example, know that my world record | :22:55. | :22:57. | |
was achieved clean, logically that means other world records were. | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
There are some that there are doubts about, but I would rather see us go | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
down the route of trying to prove the ones we have doubts about than | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
wipe the record, not make the athlete who has already had to | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
compete against cheating athletes in their career suffered twice by | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
having their world record taken away. If you reset the records, you | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
are essentially saying that an athlete who competed last year was | :23:22. | :23:24. | |
not clean, but if they run the same time this year than they are. I | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
don't think we are at the point where we can make those guarantees | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
yet. Thank you both very much, Jesse Norman, thank you for talking | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
directly to Paula Radcliffe. Sorry, Mr Norman, would you lie to say | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
something else? If you wouldn't mind. I would like to say how glad I | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
am at the very construct of tone of this conversation. At the end of the | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
day, what we are trying to do and what I am sure Paula Radcliffe and | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
other members of the clean-up team at the IAAF are trying to do is to | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
create a clean sport that everyone can feel trust and confidence in, so | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
I absolutely welcome many of the things she has said and I hope she | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
will support many of the things we have come to as conclusions within | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
the committee, we are all focused on the same goal and outcome. Thank you | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
both very much for your time, Jesse Norman, chairman of the culture, | :24:18. | :24:20. | |
media and sport committee. The committee is sitting this morning, | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
they will be questioning the boss of UK athletics and UK Anti-Doping. | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
Paula Radcliffe, thank you for your time. You heard a partial apology | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
from Jesse normal -- Jessye Norman to Paula Radcliffe, which she | :24:35. | :24:36. | |
accepted. Chris on Facebook asks whether there | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
is such a thing as a clean sport any more? Even when your own country | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
wins, there is the niggling question, are they clean? I feel | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
genuinely sorry for clean sports person. Another person says, I do | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
not trust any of the sports to be authentic, they are tainted by | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
cheating and corruption. Kate on Twitter, Paula Radcliffe is | :24:58. | :24:59. | |
not holding back today, this is brilliant. Paula Radcliffe, having | :25:00. | :25:07. | |
some politician over a barrel on Victoria. The Ministry of Mark | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
tweets Paula Radcliffe versus Jessye Norman, no contest, first-round | :25:13. | :25:13. | |
victory to Paula. Thanks for joining us | :25:14. | :25:14. | |
today, still to come. Concerns about whether the NHS out | :25:15. | :25:24. | |
of hours helpline is able to identify illnesses in children after | :25:25. | :25:27. | |
the death of a one U rolled boy in sepsis. | :25:28. | :25:29. | |
And the number of serious incidents reported by mental health trusts | :25:30. | :25:32. | |
That includes suicides and unexpected deaths. | :25:33. | :25:35. | |
We'll talk to a woman whose son's suicide led to a review | :25:36. | :25:38. | |
First, it's the main news this morning. | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
A report on the death of a baby boy from sepsis has said the 111 NHS | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
helpline isn't sensitive enough to identify the illness in children | :25:49. | :25:50. | |
William Mead died in December 2014, after seeing doctors repeatedly over | :25:51. | :25:58. | |
There were errors chewing the whole call, we weren't really listened to. | :25:59. | :26:17. | |
-- during the whole call. The call handler did not recognise it as a | :26:18. | :26:20. | |
complex call, there was a catalogue of errors. | :26:21. | :26:22. | |
The boss of UK Anti-doping and the head of UK Athletics | :26:23. | :26:24. | |
will give evidence to the Culture Media and Sport Committee | :26:25. | :26:27. | |
following last year's allegations of widespread doping | :26:28. | :26:28. | |
The marathon world-record holder Paula Radcliffe, who had to clear | :26:29. | :26:40. | |
her name during doping allegations, has been speaking to this programme. | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
And the charitable culture, media and sport committee, Conservative MP | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
Jessye Norman, apologised to her, sort. He said, I am perfectly happy | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
to say that I am sorry to hear about what has happened, and sorry that it | :26:55. | :26:57. | |
has been taken in this way. It really has had to do with what I was | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
saying and what my committee was doing and I think it is a terrible | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
shame it has been taken that way. He was responding to the fact that her | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
name emerged after his first hearing back in September into doping | :27:10. | :27:18. | |
allegations. Stock markets in China have fallen sharply, reversing two | :27:19. | :27:21. | |
days of gains. It follows heavy fault last week on Asia's main | :27:22. | :27:25. | |
markets, sparking a sell-off around the world. | :27:26. | :27:26. | |
Police, fire and ambulance services in England should share control | :27:27. | :27:28. | |
rooms to improve their response to 999 calls, a Home Office | :27:29. | :27:31. | |
The proposal is part of new plans to get the three services working | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
more closely, although the Fire Brigades Union have called it | :27:36. | :27:38. | |
More than 8000 serious incidents were reported by health trusts | :27:39. | :27:43. | |
in England last year, an increase of a third over | :27:44. | :27:49. | |
The Liberal Democrats, who obtained the figures say it | :27:50. | :27:53. | |
raises further concerns about mental health services. | :27:54. | :27:55. | |
Young people in the UK are spending more time online than watching | :27:56. | :27:58. | |
television, according to an annual survey | :27:59. | :28:00. | |
It found that 5-16-year-olds use the internet for around three hours | :28:01. | :28:05. | |
It's been described as a "landmark change" in viewing habits. | :28:06. | :28:11. | |
The organisers of the National Lottery, who are looking | :28:12. | :28:13. | |
for the winner of a ?33 million jackpot, say they've received claims | :28:14. | :28:17. | |
from hundreds of people who say they bought the winning ticket, | :28:18. | :28:20. | |
but say it was lost, damaged, or stolen. | :28:21. | :28:24. | |
Camelot says it won't comment while it investigates. | :28:25. | :28:32. | |
I would love to comment, but I couldn't possibly. But we are all | :28:33. | :28:37. | |
going yeah, of course! Aren't we?! Let's catch up with | :28:38. | :28:39. | |
all the sport now. It has been a rather disappointing | :28:40. | :28:46. | |
and for England in their Test series. | :28:47. | :28:49. | |
Alistair Cook's side lost seven wickets in a little over an hour. | :28:50. | :28:52. | |
England have won the series but South Africa salvaging some | :28:53. | :28:54. | |
Not quite the finish that England would have wanted. | :28:55. | :29:00. | |
We'll have the latest from the Australian Open, | :29:01. | :29:02. | |
where there were wins for Roger Federer and Serena Williams | :29:03. | :29:05. | |
Federer's now on course to meet Novak Djokovic in the semis, | :29:06. | :29:08. | |
whilst Serena Williams beat Maria Sharapova - | :29:09. | :29:10. | |
a winning run that's gone on for 12 years over her opponent - | :29:11. | :29:13. | |
as she closes in on a 22nd Grand Slam title in Melbourne. | :29:14. | :29:18. | |
She must hate facing Serena Williams! | :29:19. | :29:23. | |
We will have all of the pictures to come at 10am. | :29:24. | :29:26. | |
In a world first, 3D printing has been used in surgery to support | :29:27. | :29:29. | |
the successful transplant an adult kidney into a young child. | :29:30. | :29:33. | |
Surgeons at Guys and St Thomas and Great Ormond Street Hospital | :29:34. | :29:36. | |
came up with the idea to take 3D copies of the kidney of dad | :29:37. | :29:44. | |
Chris Boucher and the abdomen of his then two-year-old daughter | :29:45. | :29:47. | |
Lucy in an innovative step before the operation in November last year. | :29:48. | :29:49. | |
Speaking in their first broadcast interview, | :29:50. | :29:51. | |
we can speak to Chris Boucher and his wife Ciara and Lucy who's | :29:52. | :29:54. | |
now turned three from their home in Antrim in Northern Ireland, | :29:55. | :29:57. | |
and the surgeon who came up with the idea Pankaj Chandal | :29:58. | :29:59. | |
Right, good morning, thank you so much for coming on the programme. | :30:00. | :30:13. | |
Chris, Ciara, just explain what the situation with Lucy was and why she | :30:14. | :30:20. | |
needed a kidney transplant? Basically, Lucy was born healthy and | :30:21. | :30:24. | |
everything seemed fine rage throughout the pregnancy, but at | :30:25. | :30:28. | |
four weeks old she had massive heart failure. We went to lift in the | :30:29. | :30:34. | |
morning and she was a ghostly white, her lips were going blue and my wife | :30:35. | :30:38. | |
bundled her up and rushed her to the hospital which, thankfully, is about | :30:39. | :30:42. | |
five minutes from us. Immediately they identify that she was in | :30:43. | :30:46. | |
massive heart failure. Throughout that day she was moved to the Royal | :30:47. | :30:49. | |
in Belfast from Antrim, but throughout the day it became clear | :30:50. | :30:52. | |
that they could not do anything for her to save her here, so she was | :30:53. | :30:58. | |
transferred to in England, to the Freeman's heart unit. She was put on | :30:59. | :31:04. | |
an echo machine, which gave her heart a chance to recover from the | :31:05. | :31:08. | |
heart failure but, as a result of the massive heart failure and the | :31:09. | :31:13. | |
oxygen starvation, her kidneys stopped working and did not really | :31:14. | :31:18. | |
started working again. So she had to basically go on daily dialysis. That | :31:19. | :31:24. | |
was the first time, actually, she was involved in pioneering medical | :31:25. | :31:27. | |
breakthroughs, because a retired kidney | :31:28. | :31:42. | |
At that point, she needed that machine daily. It basically through | :31:43. | :31:49. | |
a lot of ups and downs, and we were in Newcastle then for the next eight | :31:50. | :31:56. | |
months, that machine saved her life basically because there was no other | :31:57. | :31:59. | |
form of dialysis that she could have at her size because she also had | :32:00. | :32:04. | |
stomach damage due to the heart failure and it had been recently | :32:05. | :32:07. | |
invented and was still in its development. Lucy's helped develop | :32:08. | :32:12. | |
that machine a good bit for what they learned off her. We were there | :32:13. | :32:19. | |
for the next eight months and then had normal dialysis here after that, | :32:20. | :32:22. | |
up until she got to the point where she was big enough to have a | :32:23. | :32:26. | |
transplant which was just there in November, of last year. Brilliantly | :32:27. | :32:33. | |
explained. That's why she needed the new kidney. That's two years in a | :32:34. | :32:39. | |
nutshell! Absolutely. Said in such a pragmatic way. Ciara, I wonder if it | :32:40. | :32:45. | |
was as straightforward as Chris has just made it sound? No. There were | :32:46. | :32:50. | |
lots of ups and downs along the way. There were, I mean, from the day she | :32:51. | :32:56. | |
took ill, we were told when we were leaving our local hospital in Antrim | :32:57. | :32:59. | |
to say goodbye to her because she may not make the journey to Belfast | :33:00. | :33:05. | |
which is a journey that we make like countless times in a week. So there | :33:06. | :33:13. | |
were plenty of ups and downs. They had tried about four months after | :33:14. | :33:25. | |
she first took sick to reverse it and try peritinatal dialysis but | :33:26. | :33:29. | |
that didn't work because she had too many adhesions, so we were between a | :33:30. | :33:34. | |
rock and a hard place and the devil and the deep blue sea. Then down to | :33:35. | :33:41. | |
the team that developed the dialysis machine further... Is she taking | :33:42. | :33:47. | |
your temperature? She is. She's turned into quite the little medic. | :33:48. | :33:51. | |
Is your temperature all right, I need to know? ! Worringly, she | :33:52. | :33:58. | |
always tells me it's 85! I don't know where she's got 85 from. Just a | :33:59. | :34:03. | |
nice big number, I suppose? . Yes, exactly. There have been plenty of | :34:04. | :34:09. | |
hard things along the way. Thankfully for us, you know, we've | :34:10. | :34:12. | |
had brilliant medical teams in five different hospitals who've worked | :34:13. | :34:15. | |
with her and got her to where she is today. And once she came back from | :34:16. | :34:21. | |
Newcastle and was on dialysis for a full two years here on the standard | :34:22. | :34:28. | |
machine, she did brilliantly on it. They would come and see her, she | :34:29. | :34:31. | |
didn't act like a child, she would go in and play and was quite happy | :34:32. | :34:37. | |
to see the nurses. It's only four... Oh, dear. You should say hello. Hi, | :34:38. | :34:47. | |
Lucy! Hello, gorgeous, how are you? You can't see me waving but I'm | :34:48. | :34:51. | |
going to wave anyway. You look so happy and healthy. Give a nice wave. | :34:52. | :34:57. | |
So the nurses in the Royal Hospital in Belfast over the last two years | :34:58. | :35:05. | |
have been kind of more like honorary to her that they have seen so much | :35:06. | :35:10. | |
of her. We are really fortunate. There were lots of ups and downs in | :35:11. | :35:14. | |
the first eight months but we have been very fortunate for for the | :35:15. | :35:19. | |
times she was on dialysis three times a week, it was always | :35:20. | :35:24. | |
straightforward. Let me bring in the transplant surgeon then, sitting | :35:25. | :35:30. | |
alongside me here. So, I mean, the first of all, Chris was the perfect | :35:31. | :35:34. | |
match in terms of the transplant for Lucy. You came up with the idea of | :35:35. | :35:40. | |
use ago 3D printer to effectively build a replica of Chris's kidney | :35:41. | :35:45. | |
which is this and Lucy's abdomen which is this. Why would that help | :35:46. | :35:53. | |
you ahead of the operation? 3D printers has been used for cancer | :35:54. | :35:59. | |
surgery and maxilofacial surgery. The problem we have is placing an | :36:00. | :36:05. | |
adult kidney into a small abdomen and Lucy's abdomen was 10 kilograms. | :36:06. | :36:10. | |
Do you mind showing our audience exactly what you were trying to do? | :36:11. | :36:14. | |
This is Lucy's abdomen here, the print of it. This is the live, you | :36:15. | :36:18. | |
can see that there. That is quite soft, so we can move that back. So | :36:19. | :36:22. | |
that is replicating the softness of a real liver? Not exactly but it's | :36:23. | :36:29. | |
the next best thing. Then you have the two kidneys here. You can see | :36:30. | :36:32. | |
they are small. Tiny? Absolutely, yes. Then you have the major blood | :36:33. | :36:40. | |
vessels here, the aorta and the boney pelvis also, printed in a | :36:41. | :36:43. | |
harder material as it would be in the human body. So the printer | :36:44. | :36:50. | |
relies on information from CT and MR scans and moulds liquid plastic | :36:51. | :36:55. | |
under UV light to create the models. This is Chris's kidney, adult size, | :36:56. | :37:00. | |
you can see the size discrepancy there, it's trying to place that in | :37:01. | :37:06. | |
Lucy's abdomen, so essentially it helps us with, not only planning | :37:07. | :37:09. | |
that approach, but thinking about the incision, how we are going to | :37:10. | :37:13. | |
approach the vessels and the best lie of the kidney. Would you have | :37:14. | :37:20. | |
been able to do this operation without using the 3D printed model?s | :37:21. | :37:24. | |
Yes, but this allows a hands-on approach for the team to go through | :37:25. | :37:28. | |
the procedure in their minds, actually physically manipulating the | :37:29. | :37:31. | |
models in real time prior to the procedure itself. That's the added | :37:32. | :37:35. | |
advantage. It's an additional layer of safety that we can offer the | :37:36. | :37:39. | |
patient force this type of surgery. Chris and Ciara, you were able to | :37:40. | :37:44. | |
hold the models. How did that help you with understanding how this | :37:45. | :37:49. | |
operation was going to go? I was just astounded by it really. At | :37:50. | :37:53. | |
first, to see the actual size of my kidney, I'd been told in tests | :37:54. | :37:57. | |
beforehand and I'd seen scans and had an idea of what it was, but to | :37:58. | :38:03. | |
actually see it in that 3D shape in what it was and to see Lucy's | :38:04. | :38:09. | |
abdomen, an exact replica and size, it was astounding. Even prints right | :38:10. | :38:13. | |
down to the sort of grain, if you like, of the kidney, the actual | :38:14. | :38:19. | |
texture in a sense around the side of it, it was phenomenal being able | :38:20. | :38:24. | |
to hold it over Lucy's abdomen, you just again were thinking, how on | :38:25. | :38:28. | |
earth can they fit this into this abdomen, you know. It again | :38:29. | :38:33. | |
highlighted even more just how impressive what they do really is. | :38:34. | :38:39. | |
Let's ask the surgeon, how did you fit it in, because the way you are | :38:40. | :38:43. | |
demonstrating this now, you are having to move other organs around? | :38:44. | :38:47. | |
Yes, we can move the liver out of the way here. This is the side of | :38:48. | :38:52. | |
the abdomen, you can move that up. If you hold me, I can show you how | :38:53. | :38:57. | |
you place the kidney there. We place the kidney inside like that | :38:58. | :39:00. | |
essentially and join the vessels up like that. Obviously, the bowel is | :39:01. | :39:05. | |
in the way as well. We have to make sure that that's appropriately | :39:06. | :39:09. | |
placed back, then we have to close the abdomen, some times in small | :39:10. | :39:12. | |
children we may not be able to do that, but in Lucy's case we were. So | :39:13. | :39:15. | |
that's the great advantage of the model because it helped us | :39:16. | :39:21. | |
appreciate the anatomy. I can see obviously that Lucy looks fab and is | :39:22. | :39:25. | |
energetic and lively and all the rest of it. Tell us how she is from | :39:26. | :39:31. | |
your point of view, mum and dad? She's brilliant. She's always had | :39:32. | :39:40. | |
energy but she has just boundless energy. She just jumps about the | :39:41. | :39:51. | |
place or just kind of runs. Two big things before the surgery for a | :39:52. | :39:54. | |
child on dialysis, she did continue to eat little bits but didn't eat | :39:55. | :39:59. | |
very much so most of her nutrition was going through her gastric tube | :40:00. | :40:03. | |
through her nose, so since the surgery, she's started to seat. | :40:04. | :40:08. | |
She's not quite eating all of her calorific requirements yet, but | :40:09. | :40:10. | |
she's heading in that direction and it's lovely to have her just be part | :40:11. | :40:18. | |
of meals. We were able to take her out for her birthday for dinner | :40:19. | :40:22. | |
which in the past didn't mean a whole hot to Lucy but we were able | :40:23. | :40:28. | |
to do that. Also when you're on dialysis, one of your blood levels | :40:29. | :40:33. | |
can be quite high and that can make you feel sick, your urea. Lucy would | :40:34. | :40:38. | |
have vomited generally at least once a day, if not more, and we were kind | :40:39. | :40:44. | |
of trying to keep up with feeds. She's vomited once since the | :40:45. | :40:48. | |
surgery. Wow. Which obviously is so much better for her. It makes life a | :40:49. | :40:53. | |
whole lot better when you're not changing beds in the middle of the | :40:54. | :40:58. | |
night and trying to chase feeds, so that's two massive differences. Then | :40:59. | :41:02. | |
another huge one is that, like last week for the first time since she | :41:03. | :41:09. | |
was four weeks old, we were only at the hospital once, whereas she lived | :41:10. | :41:15. | |
in hospital for eight months and then she's been up and down to the | :41:16. | :41:18. | |
hospital three times a week and then was obviously back in hospital for | :41:19. | :41:22. | |
the transplant. So massive change for her. You know what, she's been | :41:23. | :41:26. | |
so brilliantly behaved and she's just starting to get bored now, I | :41:27. | :41:32. | |
don't blame her. Come here. She's fine, she's cool. She wants to go | :41:33. | :41:36. | |
off so that's fine. I'm so grateful for your time, it's really nice to | :41:37. | :41:40. | |
talk to you and I'm so happy for you all, thank you so very much for | :41:41. | :41:44. | |
coming on the programme. Thank you. Again we can't just express our | :41:45. | :41:49. | |
gratitude to the people right from the beginning in the Antrim area | :41:50. | :41:53. | |
hospital to the people that treated her during that horrific day of | :41:54. | :41:57. | |
heart failure in the Royal in bell British Airwayses to the Freeman in | :41:58. | :42:01. | |
Hospital, the RVI in Newcastle and the machine which was invented and | :42:02. | :42:05. | |
then because of Lucy got reinvented to take her on to the next stage. | :42:06. | :42:13. | |
Because of Lucy, if the machine didn't change, she wouldn't live, | :42:14. | :42:16. | |
they managed to redesign it so it can take a child of 8 kilograms up | :42:17. | :42:21. | |
to the Royal in Belfast on dialysis and again in Great Ormond Street and | :42:22. | :42:25. | |
the phenomenal work with that 3D print out. That helped put our mind | :42:26. | :42:30. | |
at ease just seeing what would be done, you know, and just knowing as | :42:31. | :42:36. | |
well the forward-thinking minds that there are, like the surgeons, we | :42:37. | :42:40. | |
don't really think about it enough. In the NHS, there are a lot of | :42:41. | :42:43. | |
people who're continually trying to work to make the ways they treat us | :42:44. | :42:51. | |
better. Honestly, they do it with such little funding at times and | :42:52. | :42:55. | |
struggle to do it and the work is just phenomenal. Lucy, as you see | :42:56. | :42:59. | |
with the temperature thing, I mean, do you like hospital, Lucy? Uh-huh. | :43:00. | :43:07. | |
She's so happy, smiled right through it, and that's because of the nurses | :43:08. | :43:10. | |
and the staff and the way that they've been with her. I mean, she | :43:11. | :43:16. | |
gets kited whenever she's going to hospital even though she gets blood | :43:17. | :43:19. | |
tests which she hates, she walks out with a smile on her face so we are | :43:20. | :43:24. | |
so grateful. She wants to go now, she's got her bag on, she's ready. | :43:25. | :43:31. | |
She does, she is ready to go. Thank you very much. | :43:32. | :43:36. | |
Doctor, thank you for coming on the programme, a great testament to you | :43:37. | :43:41. | |
and hospitals around the UK. Mica on Twitter says Lucy is amazing, he | :43:42. | :43:44. | |
parents are so strong. Lots of comments from you on conversation | :43:45. | :43:48. | |
between the chair of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee, Jesse | :43:49. | :43:53. | |
Norman and Paula Radcliffe. Carol says well done Paula, you were calm | :43:54. | :43:59. | |
and well prepared. J St Helens sse - nothing to do with me - Norman, not | :44:00. | :44:06. | |
so much. A partial apology was given to Paula Radcliffe which she | :44:07. | :44:13. | |
accepted into doping allegations,ers are name emerged. It was cleared. He | :44:14. | :44:17. | |
said it wasn't anything to do with the committee hearing which lasted | :44:18. | :44:20. | |
three hours and watch it and you will see the context. Brian said, | :44:21. | :44:24. | |
not just a brilliant athlete, well done. Well done in your dignified | :44:25. | :44:32. | |
stance. Pedal for health on Twitter, a wonderful interview, honest, heart | :44:33. | :44:37. | |
felt. I'm unable to say the same for Jesse Norman. I have no doubt about | :44:38. | :44:43. | |
Paula's integrity. Pattie says Paula was brilliant and we trust her | :44:44. | :44:49. | |
completely. She should be in charge of the committees into investigating | :44:50. | :44:54. | |
doping. How disgraceful that the Conservative MP found it difficult | :44:55. | :45:00. | |
to apologise. Derek says, accused of something you have never done, a | :45:01. | :45:03. | |
disgrace and shouldn't happen again. Keep those coming in and I know you | :45:04. | :45:06. | |
will! Let's get the latest weather now. Here is Carol. Apparently I'm | :45:07. | :45:12. | |
walking all the way around here to be near you and why not? ! It's | :45:13. | :45:16. | |
going to be so worth it when I get there. | :45:17. | :45:22. | |
machine you know we have been talking about the snow affecting the | :45:23. | :45:29. | |
eastern states of the USA? It is on our shores, giving us wet and windy | :45:30. | :45:35. | |
weather. Why are we not having snow, I hear you cry? For us to have | :45:36. | :45:40. | |
widespread snow and bitterly cold weather, we import our ad from the | :45:41. | :45:44. | |
east or, indeed, from the north, from the Arctic. We have our coming | :45:45. | :45:50. | |
in from the West at the moment, so that system came across the Atlantic | :45:51. | :45:54. | |
Ocean. The Atlantic is huge and relatively mild, so the snow would | :45:55. | :45:59. | |
readily turn to rain as it progressed from the west towards the | :46:00. | :46:02. | |
east. Westerly winds have been around that. That rain is now across | :46:03. | :46:08. | |
our shores, some of its heavy, particularly in the north and west. | :46:09. | :46:13. | |
Looking at the satellite picture, you will see the amount of cloud | :46:14. | :46:17. | |
which has come out of America pushing across the Atlantic and | :46:18. | :46:22. | |
resting across our shores. That is the system which produced the snow. | :46:23. | :46:25. | |
Is there more on the way, I hear you cry? Is the moron the way, Carol? I | :46:26. | :46:33. | |
love this bit of the show! As we go through this week, we could see more | :46:34. | :46:39. | |
low pressure developed. -- is that more on the way, Carol? There could | :46:40. | :46:45. | |
be more snow anywhere from New England to the Canadian maritimes. | :46:46. | :46:50. | |
But that will cross the Atlantic, go to the north of us, it will affect | :46:51. | :46:55. | |
America on Friday, by the time we get to Sunday we are likely to have | :46:56. | :46:59. | |
wet and windy weather, but also milder conditions. | :47:00. | :47:07. | |
Thank you for that? Today? It is wet, so that system is crossing is. | :47:08. | :47:13. | |
Always a pleasure to see you! We have wet and windy weather today, | :47:14. | :47:17. | |
the same system as well and truly across our shores, producing some | :47:18. | :47:25. | |
heavy rain with height. Here is the low. Looking at the ice A bars you | :47:26. | :47:31. | |
can tell it is windy. -- looking at the isobars. If you are travelling, | :47:32. | :47:36. | |
bear that in mind. The rain has been rattling in quickly through the | :47:37. | :47:40. | |
course of this morning across Scotland, Northern Ireland, northern | :47:41. | :47:43. | |
England and Wales into the south-west. It continues to progress | :47:44. | :47:47. | |
to the south-east. Although it might be dry, even Sony, where you are, it | :47:48. | :47:53. | |
will not last. The rain will push southwards, accompanied by the gusty | :47:54. | :47:56. | |
winds. Behind it for Northern Ireland, | :47:57. | :47:58. | |
Scotland at eventually Northern England, a return to showers, but it | :47:59. | :48:03. | |
will be windy even into the afternoon. This gives you an idea of | :48:04. | :48:07. | |
the wind gusts we are looking at. If you are on a lighter vehicle, bear | :48:08. | :48:12. | |
that in mind. Very gusty winds across northern England and Northern | :48:13. | :48:17. | |
Ireland. Combine that with some gusty showers, across the | :48:18. | :48:20. | |
trans-Pennine routes, nasty conditions to travel on. We have a | :48:21. | :48:24. | |
gap with lots of cloud and showers, we run back into the band of rain | :48:25. | :48:30. | |
across southern England, right into the south-west and, again, looking | :48:31. | :48:31. | |
at gusty winds. With exposure and the south-west and, again, looking | :48:32. | :48:35. | |
height, some will be stronger than you are seeing there. | :48:36. | :48:38. | |
Through the evening and overnight we carry on with the rain and the | :48:39. | :48:41. | |
South. There will be rain across North Wales, Northern Ireland, | :48:42. | :48:45. | |
Northern England and southern Scotland. Is that engages with the | :48:46. | :48:49. | |
cold area across Scotland, that will turn to snow on the hills. Cold in | :48:50. | :48:54. | |
the north, not as cold in the south. I am choosing my words carefully, | :48:55. | :48:58. | |
you could in the wind and rain it will not feel particularly pleasant. | :48:59. | :49:03. | |
Starting on a wet note tomorrow, for southern Scotland and northern | :49:04. | :49:05. | |
England and areas adjacent to the Irish seed you could have gusts of | :49:06. | :49:12. | |
50, 60 or up to 70 pH as the band of rain and strongest winds move south, | :49:13. | :49:17. | |
becoming ensconced across southern England and South Wales. Dry and | :49:18. | :49:21. | |
brighter behind that, some showers, blustery showers in the north and | :49:22. | :49:25. | |
west, it will be cold but still in double figures through much of the | :49:26. | :49:29. | |
rest of the UK. Heading into Thursday, a cold and | :49:30. | :49:33. | |
frosty start but things are a bit more relaxed in terms of the | :49:34. | :49:36. | |
weather. It will be colder but we will seize on Joan. Showers in the | :49:37. | :49:40. | |
north and west eventually being replaced by rain. -- but we will see | :49:41. | :49:43. | |
some sunshine. Welcome to the programme. | :49:44. | :49:53. | |
Exclusively on this programme, a partial apology to Britain's | :49:54. | :49:58. | |
marathon world-record run, Paula Radcliffe, from the MP who | :49:59. | :50:02. | |
accidentally inadvertently linked to doping allegations. I'm happy to say | :50:03. | :50:07. | |
that I am sorry to hear about what happened to iron I am sorry it was | :50:08. | :50:11. | |
taken this way, but it really has had nothing to do with what I was | :50:12. | :50:15. | |
saying all my committee was doing. I think it is a terrible shame it has | :50:16. | :50:19. | |
been taken that way. That MP will be grilling the boss of | :50:20. | :50:25. | |
UK athletics on the doping allegations, we will bring you some | :50:26. | :50:27. | |
of it live. Doubts are raised again about | :50:28. | :50:31. | |
whether the NHS 111 helpline can spot potentially fatal illnesses in | :50:32. | :50:36. | |
children after a one-year-old baby boy died. His mother once the system | :50:37. | :50:42. | |
look that. Our call was not compliant, there were errors during | :50:43. | :50:46. | |
the call, we were not really listen to, the call handler did not | :50:47. | :50:50. | |
recognise it as a complex call, there was quite a catalogue of | :50:51. | :50:55. | |
virus. Pregnant British women planning | :50:56. | :50:58. | |
trips to areas affected by the Zika virus are urged to reconsider travel | :50:59. | :51:03. | |
plans because of the risks posed to their unborn children. We will bring | :51:04. | :51:04. | |
you the latest. A report on the death of a baby boy | :51:05. | :51:09. | |
from sepsis has said the 111 NHS helpline in England isn't sensitive | :51:10. | :51:15. | |
enough to identify the illness in children whose | :51:16. | :51:17. | |
condition is worsening. William Mead died in December 2014, | :51:18. | :51:19. | |
after seeing doctors repeatedly over There were errors during the whole | :51:20. | :51:37. | |
call, we weren't really listened to, the call handler didn't recognise it | :51:38. | :51:43. | |
as a complex call. There was quite a catalogue of errors. | :51:44. | :51:45. | |
The chair of the Culture Select Committee has partailly apologised | :51:46. | :51:48. | |
on this programme to the British marathon runner Paula Radcliffe | :51:49. | :51:50. | |
The women's world record holder felt she had been indirectly named | :51:51. | :51:54. | |
by Jessie Norman during a committee meeting last year, in relation | :51:55. | :51:57. | |
to doping allegation in the Sunday Times. | :51:58. | :51:58. | |
The boss of UK Anti-doping and the head of UK Athletics | :51:59. | :52:01. | |
will give evidence to the committee later, following last year's | :52:02. | :52:03. | |
allegations of widespread doping and cover ups in athletics. | :52:04. | :52:13. | |
I'm perfectly happy to say that I'm sorry to hear about what has | :52:14. | :52:18. | |
happened and I am sorry it has been taken in this way, but as I | :52:19. | :52:21. | |
explained it really has had nothing to do with what I was saying all my | :52:22. | :52:25. | |
committee was doing, and I think it is a terrible shame it has been | :52:26. | :52:30. | |
taken that way. I access that, but I think from this point what I would | :52:31. | :52:34. | |
like to see is everybody move forward in terms of getting to the | :52:35. | :52:38. | |
truth, the truth coming out, but also making sure that in all sports | :52:39. | :52:43. | |
federations and the integrity and the protection of clean athletes | :52:44. | :52:45. | |
across all sports moves forward in the right direction. | :52:46. | :52:47. | |
Some breaking news to bring you - Tesco "seriously" breached | :52:48. | :52:51. | |
an industry code by intentionally delaying payments to suppliers, | :52:52. | :52:55. | |
a long-awaited report by the Groceries Code Adjudicator | :52:56. | :52:57. | |
We'll bring you more on that in the next few moments. | :52:58. | :53:01. | |
Stock markets in China have fallen sharply again, | :53:02. | :53:03. | |
The main index in Shanghai was down more than six per cent. | :53:04. | :53:07. | |
It follows heavy falls last week on Asia's main markets which sparked | :53:08. | :53:10. | |
Police, fire and ambulance services in England should share control | :53:11. | :53:15. | |
rooms to improve their response to 999 calls, a Home Office | :53:16. | :53:18. | |
The proposal is part of new plans to get the three services working | :53:19. | :53:24. | |
more closely, although the Fire Brigades Union have called it | :53:25. | :53:26. | |
More than 8000 serious incidents were reported by health trusts | :53:27. | :53:35. | |
in England last year an increase of a third over | :53:36. | :53:37. | |
The Liberal Democrats, who obtained the figures say it | :53:38. | :53:40. | |
raises further concerns about mental health services. | :53:41. | :53:42. | |
Young people in the UK are spending more time online than watching | :53:43. | :53:48. | |
television, according to an annual survey | :53:49. | :53:52. | |
It found that five to 16-year-olds use the internet for around three | :53:53. | :53:56. | |
hours a day an hour more than the TV. | :53:57. | :53:59. | |
It's been described as a "landmark change" in viewing habits. | :54:00. | :54:03. | |
The organisers of the National Lottery, who are looking | :54:04. | :54:05. | |
for the winner of a 33-million pound jackpot, say they've received claims | :54:06. | :54:08. | |
from hundreds of people who say they bought the winning ticket, | :54:09. | :54:11. | |
but say it was lost, damaged, or stolen. | :54:12. | :54:15. | |
Camelot says it won't comment while it investigates. | :54:16. | :54:20. | |
Let's catch up with all the sport now. | :54:21. | :54:24. | |
What a miserable end to England's Test series in South | :54:25. | :54:29. | |
They lost the fourth and final match. England's main task was to | :54:30. | :54:40. | |
avoid losing wickets, but they lost seven in just an hour. | :54:41. | :54:43. | |
Joe Root was the second wicket to fall today. | :54:44. | :54:45. | |
After him, they kept on tumbling, Jonny Bairstow one of 13 wickets | :54:46. | :54:48. | |
to fall to Kagiso Rabada in the match. | :54:49. | :54:50. | |
James Anderson was the last man out as England were bowled out for 101 | :54:51. | :54:53. | |
Their solace is that they have won the series 2-1. | :54:54. | :54:58. | |
Signs of things to come from England, but not the finished | :54:59. | :55:02. | |
article just yet. Now, let's bring you up to date | :55:03. | :55:03. | |
with events at the Australian Open tennis, and world number one | :55:04. | :55:07. | |
Novak Djokovic looks like a completely different player | :55:08. | :55:09. | |
to the one who was taken to five sets by Gilles Simon two days ago - | :55:10. | :55:12. | |
he's two sets to love up against Japan's Kei Nishikori | :55:13. | :55:15. | |
and the errors that marred his game against Simon are nowhere to be | :55:16. | :55:18. | |
seen, though Nishikori is putting up He has broken Djokovic in the third | :55:19. | :55:20. | |
set. And standing between the winner | :55:21. | :55:28. | |
and a place in the final is Roger Federer, who beat | :55:29. | :55:31. | |
Tomas Berdych in straight sets. Federer's last major triumph came | :55:32. | :55:33. | |
at Wimbledon in 2012 but this was a really impressive | :55:34. | :55:36. | |
performance against Berdych, who's been in great | :55:37. | :55:38. | |
form in Melbourne. Maria Sharapova must go cold every | :55:39. | :55:44. | |
time she sees her name alongside The defending champion has beaten | :55:45. | :55:47. | |
Sharapova 18 times in a row now - This time it was a straight sets | :55:48. | :55:52. | |
victory that took Williams through to the semi-finals, | :55:53. | :55:57. | |
where she'll face Agnieszka Williams is the world number one, | :55:58. | :55:59. | |
of course, and winner of 21 But if her rivals were hoping | :56:00. | :56:05. | |
to see the back of her, I didn't even think I would have | :56:06. | :56:11. | |
done as well as I have. So everything from here | :56:12. | :56:25. | |
on out is just... I don't have to win this tournament | :56:26. | :56:27. | |
or any other tournament for as long as I live, and I really | :56:28. | :56:32. | |
want to enjoy being a professional tennis player and playing | :56:33. | :56:35. | |
on Grand Slam courts, One more result for you, | :56:36. | :56:37. | |
and it's good news for Jamie Murray - he and Brazil's Bruno Soares | :56:38. | :56:43. | |
are through to the semi-finals of the men's doubles, | :56:44. | :56:45. | |
coming from a set down to beat Yet another chapter in the Louis van | :56:46. | :56:48. | |
Gaal saga. BBC Sport has been told | :56:49. | :56:59. | |
that the Manchester United boss Louis van Gaal did not offer | :57:00. | :57:01. | |
to resign at the weekend, It's been claimed that Van Gaal told | :57:02. | :57:04. | |
executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward he was prepared to quit, | :57:05. | :57:08. | |
following Saturday's 1-0 But we understand no such | :57:09. | :57:10. | |
conversation took place. That is what other sources tell us. | :57:11. | :57:16. | |
We wait to see what the next chap will be. I am sure we will hear more | :57:17. | :57:19. | |
in the newspapers and over the coming days. | :57:20. | :57:20. | |
There's plenty of support for new England rugby union captain | :57:21. | :57:23. | |
Dylan Hartley this morning - a controversial appointment | :57:24. | :57:25. | |
for many, considering his poor disciplinary record. | :57:26. | :57:26. | |
Head coach Eddie Jones has put his faith in Hartley for the Six | :57:27. | :57:29. | |
And two former captains have given their approval - | :57:30. | :57:33. | |
Lewis Moody said he wouldn't want to calm him down too much | :57:34. | :57:35. | |
because what he essentially offers is brilliant, | :57:36. | :57:37. | |
and Will Carling said real leadership is about how | :57:38. | :57:39. | |
Of course, the fans will hope that that will not spill over on the | :57:40. | :57:52. | |
pitch. And that, Victoria, is all the sport this morning. Back to you. | :57:53. | :58:00. | |
Over the next hour, we will bring you the latest news, developing | :58:01. | :58:03. | |
stories and dip into the Parliament hearing where the boss of UK | :58:04. | :58:06. | |
athletics will face questions from MPs about the world doping scandal. | :58:07. | :58:11. | |
We are on BBC News and BBC Two and tell a lot and I am. At 9:15am we | :58:12. | :58:17. | |
spoke to the chair of the group of MPs, Jessye Norman, and also to | :58:18. | :58:21. | |
Britain's marathon world-record holder Paula Radcliffe, who blamed | :58:22. | :58:26. | |
Mr Norman for her name being linked to doping. She felt that she had to | :58:27. | :58:34. | |
come out and defend her reputation. He sort of apologised. Let me read | :58:35. | :58:40. | |
your comments. One viewer on Twitter said an excellent display by live on | :58:41. | :58:48. | |
why no one trusts politicians, it was even deflected onto the | :58:49. | :58:51. | |
Paralympian 's high Jessye Norman. Another says a focus on individual | :58:52. | :58:57. | |
athletes does nothing to tackle a problem which is everywhere. Another | :58:58. | :59:02. | |
person said that the MP demonstrated that he did not demonstrate or know | :59:03. | :59:08. | |
what his statement meant, he should apologise. You can get into edge on | :59:09. | :59:16. | |
any of our subjects today, and wherever you are you can watch is | :59:17. | :59:24. | |
online or on the BBC website. We know that mental health is a | :59:25. | :59:28. | |
really, really ported issue to you. Last summer we two hours discussing | :59:29. | :59:34. | |
it with an audience of 100 people, you felt it was a really useful | :59:35. | :59:42. | |
couple of hours to as so many issues regarding mental health. You will be | :59:43. | :59:43. | |
interested in this story. There's been a significant increase | :59:44. | :59:45. | |
in the number of suicides and attempted suicides amongst | :59:46. | :59:47. | |
patients being cared for as in patients or outpatients | :59:48. | :59:49. | |
by mental health trusts in England. The figures were obtained | :59:50. | :59:52. | |
by the Liberal Democrats under a Freedom of Information request, | :59:53. | :59:54. | |
they show an increase of a third of all "serious incidents" over | :59:55. | :59:57. | |
the last three years. A serious incident not only includes | :59:58. | :59:59. | |
suicides and unexplained deaths but also any event which a hospital | :00:00. | :00:02. | |
trust decides needs investigating, such as security concerns | :00:03. | :00:07. | |
or the misuse of information. The Lib Dems say the figures | :00:08. | :00:10. | |
are worrying and show mental health trusts are struggling to cope | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
with a rising demand. But the Government says it's down | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
to better reporting of incidents. Norman Lamb is a Liberal Democrat MP | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
and was a health minister in the coalition govt for the period | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
these figures cover. We can also talk to Janet Day whose | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
son Alan took his own life last year aged just 35 while under the care | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
of a mental health trust. Normankm lamb, a rise of 23% in | :00:37. | :00:51. | |
deaths in the last three years. Better reporting, or is this a real | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
rise? Better reporting might be part of it, but that's why I've called | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
for the hole thing to be investigated properly by the | :01:00. | :01:01. | |
Government and by NHS England. We need to understand much more of what | :01:02. | :01:13. | |
is happening. We can't get away from the fact that this is a serious | :01:14. | :01:19. | |
rise, over 30%. It's at a time when mental health is underfunded. I've | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
made the point for years now that the way the system works, mental | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
health also loses out. Very demanding access in physical health | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
in which the whole system is focussed on meeting, and somethings | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
loses out as a result of that and it's always mental health. That's | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
why I've been on this mission to achieve equal rights to access | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
treatment on a timely basis, so that you have an equack I believe reem. | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
That would stop the disadvantage suffered by mental health -- | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
equilibrium. One life lost by suicide is one too many and so many | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
families are scarred by this. We have to treat it with the utmost | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
seriousness. In Detroit incidentally in America, they introduced | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
something called perfect depression care and they got the whole | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
organisation to focus absolutely on saving every life, learning lessons | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
constantly about things that go wrong and they managed to achieve, | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
without spending loads more money, a dramatic reduction in suicides. | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
That's what I want every organisation in the NHS in this | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
country to do, so change the culture, to ensure that everyone is | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
focussed on saying lives. You were the mental Health Minister, | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
you could have instigated that? Well, we did. You haven't, or else | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
we wouldn't see this rise? So again, what I explained to you was the way | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
the system works with maximum waiting time standards in physical | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
health but not in mental health... Yes. That is the disadvantage so we | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
introduced... I know. We reported it at the time before the general | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
election, Clegg announced it. Yes, so we introduced that. They apply | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
from April, they have to be met by April. It's a different point to the | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
story that you are bringing to everybody's attention today? No, | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
it's precisely the same point because it disadvantages mental | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
health in the way the money gets allocated locally and, at the time | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
we announced the first waiting time standards, we also said they must be | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
made comprehensive and that must be the vision between now and 2020 and | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
there's been a report, not published yet, but a report undertaken by Paul | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
Farmer of MIND commissioned by NHS England and it was leaked... But... | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
Let me just finish. Leaked to the Sunday Times and it Saez in order to | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
achieve the equality that we need to ensure mental health gets the fair | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
share of funding we need an extra ?1.2 billion between now and 2020. | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
Are you saying then this rise has effectively got nothing to do with | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
you when you were the mental Health Minister? What I've tried to explain | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
is the way the system works. I know and you have tried to change it, but | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
it now sounds like you are saying because you are in opposition now, | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
you can bring these deaths to people's attention... No, no. And | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
distance yourself from people dying when you were in Government? No, | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
Victoria, I was dog it when I was in Government. I was constantly... And | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
failing? No, because we absolutely laid the foundations. In February | :04:23. | :04:29. | |
last year, we announced an objective for a suicide ambition to get every | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
organisation across the country to focus on perfect depression care as | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
we have seen in Detroit and there are some organisations in our | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
country starting to do that. We need every organisation to do it. What I | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
can say is, as a minister, you can agitate, you can challenge, you can | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
demand change, you can highlight the failures and all of these things | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
I've done consistently as a minister and since being a minister. I don't | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
want to blame any Government. The fact is that the way the system | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
works, there is a central discrimination against mental health | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
and against those who suffer from mental ill health. When the maximum | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
waiting times come in for access to therapy and so on on and so forth, | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
are you confident Nat number of suicide, unexplained deaths and so | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
on will fall? I absolutely believe if we can get comprehensive waiting | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
time standards so people get quicker access to treatment and I think | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
Janet will talk about this, then I think you can have a massive impact | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
on saving lives and so many families are scarred by mental health. My | :05:33. | :05:43. | |
family is. I know from my family's experience just how important this | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
is. Thank you for being patient Janet and listening to what Norman | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
Lamb has had to say. In terms of Alan, he was 35, the day before he | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
took his life you contacted someone because you were worried. Yes. Tell | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
you are audience a little bit about what happened? I made the phone call | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
because there had been some factors going on in Alan's life that were | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
impacting heavily on him. They were things that couldn't be helped, but | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
we could see that they were impacting heavily. So I phoned to | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
speak to his doctor at the mental health team. I left a message for | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
her to call me back in the event and she didn't call me back until the | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
day after and Alan had taken his life. That call that you made, that | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
was you ringing an alarm bell saying, my son needs help? It was. | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
And that wasn't the only time I'd phoned. And the one thing that came | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
out of all of this during the incident review, we were never ever | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
given a crisis number to call. Alan's father approached the GP | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
because he could see it and the GP said, you need to get him to come in | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
to see me which we didn't think would happen because of how low Alan | :06:57. | :07:03. | |
was. We've since said, if there could have been a way of us having a | :07:04. | :07:10. | |
crisis number... Yes. So we have said that crisis number really needs | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
publicly advertising, so people and family members are aware of it | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
really. But with Alan, it wasn't just down the timing, a lot of it | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
was down to human error and that's what I found the hardest thing. The | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
people that should have been helping Alan were the ones that actually | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
caused a lot of the problems really. We know that things like access to a | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
crisis line, so that at that moment of desperation you know where you | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
can get help, things like that can make a massive difference and can | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
get people through an immediate crisis. We introduced something | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
called the crisis care concordat which was to set standards for care | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
across the country. Progress is being made but we need to go so much | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
further. I mean, Alan was given the number for the crisis line but, as a | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
family we never were and didn't know. I didn't even know there was a | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
crisis line because otherwise... The person that needs the help, the one | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
with the attention needed is often the person least likely to ever ring | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
the line. It's going to be the family members. That's it, yes. We | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
could see the impact. The serious incident review just outlines so | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
many short comings and human errors. Missed opportunities? Yes. In fact, | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
we had the initial inquest on the 2nd July. That had to be adjourned | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
because the coroner didn't even have the serious incident report. He | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
wasn't even aware of it until I mentioned it. So I had to be | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
adjourned and we had to go through it all again. What do we put | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
families through with that situation? That delay is dreadfully | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
punishing on a family already trying to cope with bereavement. The other | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
thing we found very difficult, we couldn't, as his parents, we | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
couldn't get a solicitor to represent us. Because we were never | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
ever doing it for the compensation, we just wanted to try and make sure | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
that no other family is going to be put in the situation that we were. | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
But because all of the solicitors said the same thing, their costs | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
would far outweigh any compensation and therefore they couldn't take it. | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
So we had to go into that coroner's office, the whole of the mental | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
health team were there with a solicitor and we had nobody to | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
represent us and I think again, that's something that we found very, | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
very difficult really because there was so much that we needed to know. | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
Whilst we were told we could ask questions, obviously you are not | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
particularly in the right frame of mind to do it and always, it's | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
knowing the questions to ask sometimes. Thank you very much for | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
coming on the programme, Janet, thank you. Norman Lamb, thank you | :09:47. | :09:47. | |
very much for your time as well. Next, an apology of sorts from the | :09:48. | :10:32. | |
MP who accidentally linked Britain's world marathon holder to doping. | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
Sesse Norman spoke to Paula Radcliffe live on the programme in | :10:39. | :10:49. | |
the last hour. Since I wasn't naming Paula, it's a terrible shame her | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
name came out. I'm amongst millions of people in this country who has | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
nothing but admiration for the sporting achievements linked to her | :10:58. | :10:59. | |
name. So that's absolutely fantastic. What I do think is a pity | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
and what I hadn't realised at the time was that Ms Radcliffe had been | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
pursued by people in and outside the sport on this issue beforehand and, | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
I'm afraid that's why the link may have been made but it had nothing to | :11:13. | :11:19. | |
do with me. Personally I would have appreciated an apology. He may not | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
have intended to name me but in fact if you ask him to win a name of a | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
person that won the London Marathon, I wouldn't imagine he could name any | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
of the others in that period. I'm perfectly happy to say that I'm | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
sorry to hear about what's happened and sorry it was take none this way, | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
but as I explained, it really had nothing to do with what I was saying | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
or what my committee was doing and it's a terrible shame it's been | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
taken in that way. Paula Radcliffe? I accept that. From | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
this point, what I would like to see is everything move forward in terms | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
of getting to the truth. The truth coming out, but also making sure | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
that in all sports, the federations and the integrity and protection of | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
the clean athletes across all sports moves forward in the right | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
direction. If you ask me what a Government selection committee can | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
do, in that aspect in terms of improvements, it's worth pushing | :12:16. | :12:18. | |
through the legislation to increase the doping bans and the deterrents | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
and we can possibly look towards criminalisation of the whole chain, | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
including the entourage, the supply of the doping materials and the | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
Agent let'ses and coaches who take that decision to take that short cut | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
and to cheat. It comes as the bosses of UK | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
Athletics and UK Anti-Doping face questions from MPs on Jesse Norman's | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
committee today about how much they know about allegations | :12:40. | :12:41. | |
of doping in athletics. Ed Warner has just begun giving his | :12:42. | :12:51. | |
evidence. Let's watch a bit live now. How can you be sure the IAAF is | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
going to react. In your previous comments, you talked about being a | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
cattle prod to the IAAF which implies goosing you up a bit and | :13:02. | :13:03. | |
that they have been rather inactive. Is that true? They have been rather | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
inactive, absolutely. They have been very active doing the things they | :13:10. | :13:12. | |
have to do on clean-up but they haven't, I don't think, got | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
sufficient resources to invest in creating the new future. I'll give | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
you a very good example. The General Secretary of the IAAF left in | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
October. They only last week appointed an interim Chief | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
Executive, same role different title, to replace him, and we are | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
told that there'll be a new permanent Chief Executive in place | :13:32. | :13:34. | |
by the middle of this year. So that will be a year into the new | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
presidency and nine or ten months since the previous General Secretary | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
left. To my mind, there's not enough speed in that process because you | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
need that organisation run by the full-time set of executives probably | :13:49. | :13:51. | |
from outside the sport and therefore untainted by anything that's gone | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
before who can drive it forward as their full-time day jobs. At the | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
moment, there's something of a vacuum in there and it needs to be | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
filled. So you use the phrase cattle prod, it's not a bad phrase, I think | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
it needs some more impetus. So just to be clear, you don't think | :14:11. | :14:13. | |
anybody's got a full-time focus at the top of the IAAF? Not at the top. | :14:14. | :14:20. | |
I mean Lord Coe is a part-time president. There is only now an | :14:21. | :14:23. | |
interim Chief Executive put in place so I guess within the last week | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
there's someone who's get a full-time focus but that's only | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
temporary. It needs a great executive. We have seen the Deputy | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
General Secretary had the stand aside just in the last few weeks. | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
This isn't good news. Do you think Lord Coe needs to be a | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
bit more hands on in this crucial transition period? I think he's very | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
hands on at the moment. I would certainly not accuse him of failing | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
to get his hands on it. You have said he's not full-time? He is the | :14:53. | :14:59. | |
President which is a part-time role. He only has two hands. He needs to | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
get more good bodies around him. He's got some, he's rented in some | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
good temporary expertise, in Paul Dayton and others from the local | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
team, but I just think there's more capacity work to be done there that | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
needs to be filled. You said there, I think it's a quotation of the | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
lawyers, that "they think they are run ago show at the moment". Ed | :15:24. | :15:31. | |
Warner, the head of UK athletics. The chairman also there. We'll keep | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
monitoring that and bring you any good bits, if I can put it like | :15:36. | :15:36. | |
that. We can talk now to the reigning | :15:37. | :15:37. | |
European 10,000 metre champion Jo Pavey who has been beaten | :15:38. | :15:40. | |
by athletes who have subsequently been banned for cheating - | :15:41. | :15:43. | |
she's published her blood data to prove she's clean - | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
and to Professor Barrie Houlihan, Professor of Sport at | :15:47. | :15:48. | |
Loughborough University, who can explain how | :15:49. | :15:50. | |
blood doping works. Jo Pavey, I confess I did not | :15:51. | :16:03. | |
realise that Lord Coe was a part-time president of the IAAF, is | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
that enough of his time spent on reforming the organisation is | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
cleaning up athletics? As athletes we have all lost a bit of confidence | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
in the way that IAAF can look after the confidence of clean athletes. As | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
an athlete, you want to trust your governing body to look after the | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
interests of athletes training hard, day in and day out. When you hear | :16:27. | :16:34. | |
about the cover-ups going up in your actual governing body, it is | :16:35. | :16:37. | |
devastating. There is so much work for Lord Coe. There need to be | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
sweeping changes. There is so much to do, it is a matter of urgency. | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
Hopefully he can bring about those changes. Foodie you know trust in | :16:48. | :16:55. | |
your sport? I think it is a dark day for the sport. -- who do you now | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
trust? I feel I have lost a lot of trust. As an athlete, competing on | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
track, you have suspicions that sometimes you are competing against | :17:07. | :17:09. | |
athletes who have doped, but you hope your governing body will be | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
acting on your behalf. Hopefully we can move the sport forward, it need | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
sweeping changes, we need to know what certain cancel members of the | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
IAAF were aware of these allegations of corruption going on, we need new | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
people to be brought in, as Ed Warner has said. We have lost a lot | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
of trust. It feels at the moment that it will take a lot for athletes | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
to build that trust, the public watching the sport and youngsters | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
coming in. But I am so passionate about the sport, I love the sport | :17:44. | :17:46. | |
and I hope we can come through these dark days and out the other side, | :17:47. | :17:52. | |
but it is devastating at the moment. Wilber Rio Olympics this year be | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
cleaner than London 2012? It is an ongoing process. Hopefully it will | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
be cleaner. It is hard to put a timescale on how long it will take | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
to bring the sweeping changes. You need to have a completely | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
independent anti-doping agency. For all sports, we have lost trust in | :18:12. | :18:14. | |
governing bodies being able to police their own anti-doping issues, | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
and we need a completely independent body where no athletes have anywhere | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
to hide and it is totally separate from people who can possibly gain | :18:25. | :18:31. | |
money out of athletes doping. Those are the steps that we need to take. | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
It will not happen overnight. Professor, do you think any athletes | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
are stupid enough right now to be doping? I am sure there are plenty | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
of athletes looking at ways to improve their performance. A legal | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
ways? You think that is still going on? Illegal ways? I am sure. Wow! | :18:53. | :19:01. | |
Even though we know what we know now?! I think there always athletes | :19:02. | :19:09. | |
who will take the risk, there will always be governments who encourage | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
athletes to take that risk. I think we should not be complacent or feel | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
that the crisis has frightened people away. I think doping still | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
remains a very serious problem in a whole range of sports. Does that | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
lead you to think that life bands are the only deterrent? A life ban | :19:28. | :19:37. | |
for a first offence is a difficult sanction to impose. Why? Why? Come | :19:38. | :19:45. | |
on. I am surprised by your answer, I said why about six times! In normal | :19:46. | :19:52. | |
course practice, you give someone a second chance. I know that might be | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
really difficult in sport, but sometimes athletes can be coerced, | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
make mistakes, be foolish. I think the penalty for a first offence | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
should be higher. At the moment it is four years for a first offence, | :20:08. | :20:14. | |
-- serious offence, I think it could be higher. But a lifetime ban, I am | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
doubtful. I would always give someone a chance to reform | :20:20. | :20:22. | |
themselves, but if they commit a second offence I could say that a | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
life ban would be essential. Justin Gatlin had a second chance, it | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
didn't really work out. Actually, it did for him! I think there will | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
always be athletes who feel they can be the system, one of your previous | :20:37. | :20:43. | |
interviewees commented that the anti-doping system needs to be much | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
more rebuffed and better funded. It is funded on a shoestring. It is an | :20:47. | :20:53. | |
afterthought after all the other investment is made in sport, it is | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
grossly underfunded both globally and nationally. If we are serious | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
about cleaning up sport, we need to put a lot more money into | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
anti-doping efforts. Thank you very much, Professor Barry Houlihan, and | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
Jo Pavey. Thanks for joining us. Still to come | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
before 11am, will shed control rooms for police, fire and ambulance | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
improve the response to 999 calls? We will hear the arguments for and | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
against. Pregnant women are being urged not | :21:26. | :21:28. | |
to visit areas of South America affected by the Zika virus, or being | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
urged to reconsider their travel bans. That chakra travel plans. -- | :21:33. | :21:39. | |
their travel plans. A report on the death of a baby boy | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
from sepsis has said the 111 NHS helpline in England isn't sensitive | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
enough to identify the illness in children whose | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
condition is worsening. William Mead died in December 2014, | :21:52. | :21:52. | |
after seeing doctors repeatedly over There were errors during the whole | :21:53. | :22:05. | |
call, we weren't really listened to. The call handler didn't recognise it | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
as a complex call. There was quite a catalogue of errors. | :22:11. | :22:12. | |
The chair of the Culture Select Committee has partially apologised | :22:13. | :22:14. | |
on this programme to the British marathon runner Paula Radcliffe | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
The women's world record holder felt she had been indirectly named | :22:20. | :22:22. | |
by Jessie Norman during a committee meeting last year, in relation | :22:23. | :22:24. | |
to doping allegation in the Sunday Times. | :22:25. | :22:26. | |
The boss of UK Anti-Doping and the head of UK Athletics | :22:27. | :22:29. | |
will give evidence to the committee later. | :22:30. | :22:36. | |
-- are giving evidence this morning. I'm perfectly happy to say that I'm | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
sorry to hear what happened and I'm sorry it was taken this way, but it | :22:43. | :22:46. | |
really has had nothing to do with what I was saying more my committee | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
was doing. I think it is a terrible shame it has been taken that way. | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
I accept that, and I think from this point what I would like to see is it | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
being moved forward in terms of getting to the truth, the truth | :23:01. | :23:03. | |
coming out, but also making sure that in all sports federations have | :23:04. | :23:10. | |
the integrity and it is moving forward on the right direction. | :23:11. | :23:12. | |
Stock markets in China have fallen sharply again, | :23:13. | :23:14. | |
The main index in Shanghai was down more than six per cent. | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
It follows heavy falls last week on Asia's main markets which sparked | :23:19. | :23:21. | |
John has the sport. It has been a disappointing entering them as my | :23:22. | :23:33. | |
protest Syriza with South Africa after they lost the fourth and final | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
match in Centurion, losing seven wickets in just over a now as South | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
Africa secured a 281 win, some consolation to them as England win | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
2-1. Novak Djokovic beat Kei Nishikori in | :23:48. | :23:50. | |
straight sets in the Australian Open. It is tricky the end but no | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
repeats of the errors which marred Djokovic 's five set match against | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
Giles Simon in the previous match. Serena Williams beat Maria Sharapova | :24:01. | :24:03. | |
for the 18th time in a row to reach the last four, she is on course for | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
a record equalling 22nd Grand Slam title. | :24:09. | :24:11. | |
BBC sport is told that Man United manager Louis van Gaal did not offer | :24:12. | :24:13. | |
to resign at the weekend, despite reports that he told the club's | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
vice-chairman that he would go following Saturday 's 1-0 defeat by | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
Southampton. Saracens wing Chris Ashton will | :24:25. | :24:30. | |
appeal against his ban for eye gouging, a ban which would keep them | :24:31. | :24:33. | |
out of the entire England six Nations campaign. | :24:34. | :24:36. | |
More on the breaking news about Tesco, they seriously breached an | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
industry code by intentionally delaying payment to suppliers. This | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
is according to a report out today. Our business correspondent Ben joins | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
us. Ben Thompson. The reporters by whom, and the | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
topline is what? By The Groceries Code Adjudicator, a pretty damning | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
report. It came to light when there was the big black Hull last year | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
discovered in Tesco 's finances, prompting questions about how Tesco | :25:07. | :25:09. | |
does its accounts? The damning report says Tesco are advised its | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
own finances over treating suppliers fairly. In a normal relationship | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
suppliers with provide goods to Tesco, they would sell them and pay | :25:20. | :25:22. | |
them in return. Tesco was delaying how much and when it would pay | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
suppliers, the reason being a tad told investors on the market that | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
the figure for profit would this amount, it was not looking so rosy, | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
so by holding onto the money it meant the profits looks better for | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
the City, investors on the stock market. That is unfair because | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
suppliers went without payment, they could not pay their staff and expand | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
the business, it caused cash flow problems. In one case, someone was | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
out of pocket to Tesco for two years before they were paid the amount due | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
to them. It is a damning report which breaches all legal guidelines | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
and a code of conduct aimed specifically at protecting the | :26:06. | :26:06. | |
grocery suppliers from the big supermarket, which do wield so much | :26:07. | :26:14. | |
power. Two years is outrageous for a company much smaller than Tesco to | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
wait that long for money. What is the report recommended terms of | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
sanctions for Tesco? At is the problem, the investigation was | :26:25. | :26:27. | |
launched after new powers were given to the adjudicator, the people who | :26:28. | :26:30. | |
did this report, so they are not allowed to find them or give them | :26:31. | :26:33. | |
tough penalty. What they have said is that Tesco needs to improve its | :26:34. | :26:39. | |
systems and what it actually does in terms of dealing with suppliers. | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
Dave Lewis, chief executive of Tesco, said, we are really sorry. | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
This is not a business that I recognise, we have tried to change | :26:50. | :26:52. | |
things, it is about improving the racial chip with suppliers. Clearly | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
this would have a damaging consequences for the business if it | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
went on. Other issues came to light, they decided unilaterally to make | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
discounts. We have told you you owe as this much, but we will pay you | :27:07. | :27:10. | |
less because we have the power to do that, the power of Tesco. This is | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
all laid out in a code of conduct for the retailers when it comes to | :27:16. | :27:18. | |
dealing with suppliers. Tesco did not do that. No fines or sanctions, | :27:19. | :27:25. | |
Tesco are keen to say they are improving relationships with their | :27:26. | :27:28. | |
suppliers, but there is a fractious relationship between the power of | :27:29. | :27:31. | |
the big supermarkets and how they deal with their smaller suppliers. | :27:32. | :27:38. | |
So they just say sorry and that is it? In theory. They have said they | :27:39. | :27:43. | |
will improve training. Training, come on! You don't make someone wait | :27:44. | :27:48. | |
for two years to pay them! We have talked about the fractious | :27:49. | :27:51. | |
relationship between eight and small retailers. They are at the mercy of | :27:52. | :27:56. | |
these big retailers, the big five in the UK. This code of conduct was | :27:57. | :28:00. | |
introduced for exactly that reason, to try to protect them when it came | :28:01. | :28:06. | |
up against the power of the big retailers, but it is very difficult. | :28:07. | :28:10. | |
They will expect to be paid quite later the supply and, they don't | :28:11. | :28:15. | |
expect the money on the day the sale was made, but two years is a | :28:16. | :28:19. | |
staggering weight. I know journalists are not trusted by | :28:20. | :28:23. | |
anyone, but as a last resort that company could have gone to | :28:24. | :28:26. | |
journalists and we would have done the story. It is so rife across the | :28:27. | :28:30. | |
industry, that is the problem. The Home Office is calling | :28:31. | :28:33. | |
for police, fire and ambulance services to share control rooms | :28:34. | :28:36. | |
to improve their response Proposals requiring the emergency | :28:37. | :28:38. | |
services to work together will be It's expected they'll also include | :28:39. | :28:41. | |
plans to give police and crime commissioners in England overall | :28:42. | :28:45. | |
responsibility for their It could mean fire chiefs with no | :28:46. | :28:46. | |
experience of fighting crime will be given the opportunity | :28:47. | :28:51. | |
to run police forces. It's been called a dangerous move | :28:52. | :28:53. | |
by the Fire Brigades Union. The Home Office minister | :28:54. | :28:56. | |
Mike Penning says it would be better if one operator handled | :28:57. | :28:58. | |
all the calls from one control room. We consulted, and it is not just | :28:59. | :29:03. | |
to do with the Fire Service, as to how we can bring the emergency | :29:04. | :29:06. | |
services to better collaboration. What we are going to go ahead | :29:07. | :29:11. | |
with is actually asking the back room systems within the emergency | :29:12. | :29:14. | |
service, the fire, police and ambulance, to work | :29:15. | :29:18. | |
closer together. Some parts of the country, | :29:19. | :29:19. | |
they're already doing that, and in other parts of the country | :29:20. | :29:21. | |
they are lagging behind. We cannot afford that are lagging | :29:22. | :29:24. | |
behind because that will cost lives. We're going to push ahead, | :29:25. | :29:27. | |
we will have more responsibility for the PCCs, and have the emergency | :29:28. | :29:29. | |
services that I served in worked Let's talk about this with Matthew | :29:30. | :29:43. | |
Ellis, the police and crime commission of the Staffordshire, | :29:44. | :29:45. | |
John the grief from the Fire Brigades Union and we have the | :29:46. | :29:49. | |
vice-chair of the Police Federation for England and Wales -- John Magee. | :29:50. | :29:54. | |
Matthew Ellis, why is this a good idea? The similarities between the | :29:55. | :30:00. | |
two services are distinct, the DNA of both the fire and police services | :30:01. | :30:03. | |
is about protect people, preventing harm. You look at this in a | :30:04. | :30:10. | |
common-sense way, you can move more money to front line services by | :30:11. | :30:14. | |
Sherry same functions currently in different places, and from an | :30:15. | :30:17. | |
operational point of view it makes enormous sense to work much closer | :30:18. | :30:19. | |
together. What are the issues, John? Well, there are huge distinctions | :30:20. | :30:33. | |
between police and fire. I mean, fire has a brand that people in the | :30:34. | :30:39. | |
Fire Service are actually invited into people's homes, where we can | :30:40. | :30:44. | |
give fire safety advice. We have a completely different relationship, | :30:45. | :30:47. | |
we've built up years of trust. I don't know how that would change by | :30:48. | :30:51. | |
having one control operator. The question is not about the control. | :30:52. | :30:54. | |
First off... So you are all right with that? Whether we share a | :30:55. | :30:58. | |
building is irrelevant, it's happening already across the | :30:59. | :31:01. | |
country, there are several different models. And good practice? Of | :31:02. | :31:06. | |
course. But fire control operators don't just take a call and despatch | :31:07. | :31:11. | |
a fire engine, they gave safety advice that's tailored for the Fire | :31:12. | :31:16. | |
and Rescue Service, likewise for the police operators, they give | :31:17. | :31:20. | |
different advise to the callers. Sure but the operator could be | :31:21. | :31:24. | |
trained to to both? Look, at the moment, the Fire Service has | :31:25. | :31:27. | |
embarked on trials for working with the ambulance services across the | :31:28. | :31:32. | |
whole of the UK. We have got about 20 trials running at the moment | :31:33. | :31:37. | |
where Fire Services are responding to calls that would otherwise have | :31:38. | :31:41. | |
been taken by the ambulance service. That's not a lack of response or | :31:42. | :31:46. | |
control operators in the ambulance control room, it's a lack of | :31:47. | :31:49. | |
ambulances. There are not enough resources. Do you accept that? ... | :31:50. | :31:53. | |
This whole question that we need to put everybody in the same control | :31:54. | :31:57. | |
room doesn't deal with the fact that we've lost 7,000 firefighters in the | :31:58. | :32:02. | |
last five years. Tell me why one operator in one control room if one | :32:03. | :32:07. | |
building means a fire engine/ambulance will get to where | :32:08. | :32:11. | |
it needs to go any quicker? I'm not looking at ambulances. Ambulances is | :32:12. | :32:14. | |
probably too difficult at the moment. OK, fine. Let's not get | :32:15. | :32:21. | |
caught up in control rooms. But tell me why it would mean a fire engine | :32:22. | :32:25. | |
would get there quicker? Well if they are in the same place, | :32:26. | :32:28. | |
communication can be better. Police and fire turn up to 47% of incident | :32:29. | :32:34. | |
where is only one is needed. It's about bringing the organisations | :32:35. | :32:36. | |
together as far as cooperation is concerned but not losing in any way, | :32:37. | :32:40. | |
shape or form, the identity of fire and the identity of police. In these | :32:41. | :32:50. | |
times of modern technology, you say it's better to gets everyone | :32:51. | :32:52. | |
together. Striving for efficiency is a good thing because we want to | :32:53. | :32:58. | |
protect the public service. Talking about you point, don't include | :32:59. | :33:02. | |
ambulances then if it's ridiculous. Why is it not ridiculous to | :33:03. | :33:05. | |
correlate the police and Fire Service together? I don't think I | :33:06. | :33:10. | |
said it was completely ridiculous. I come from a background where we do | :33:11. | :33:13. | |
things cautiously so let's try it with police and fire, let's act | :33:14. | :33:16. | |
which willy not do it in a way which is going to upset things. The | :33:17. | :33:20. | |
simplicity of this, to be honest a child could look at the similarities | :33:21. | :33:25. | |
of having two finance departments and two legal departments and two | :33:26. | :33:29. | |
comms departments and say, bring them into one and put more money to | :33:30. | :33:34. | |
support frontline firefighters and more money to support frontline | :33:35. | :33:38. | |
police officers. This isn't about a paper exercise and saving money, | :33:39. | :33:45. | |
it's about saving people. It's about people dialling 999 and the person | :33:46. | :33:49. | |
answering the call knowing what is required. John, from the Fire | :33:50. | :33:55. | |
Brigades' Union? A number of issues there. The introduction of Police | :33:56. | :34:02. | |
and Crime Commissioners, in terms of efficiency they didn't provide the | :34:03. | :34:06. | |
efficiency that they have set out to do, so, you know, like my colleague | :34:07. | :34:12. | |
here from the Police Federation, we want to find efficiencies, we are | :34:13. | :34:15. | |
work in collaboration with the police and the ambulance service and | :34:16. | :34:19. | |
we are constantly looking at ways of improving that. While we have got | :34:20. | :34:23. | |
time, I want to ask about the other issue which is somebody like | :34:24. | :34:28. | |
yourself, Police and Crime Commissioner for Staffordshire | :34:29. | :34:30. | |
taking on responsibility for the Fire Service in your area. Yes or | :34:31. | :34:34. | |
no? Thumbs up to that or thumbs down? Yes, I think the it's a | :34:35. | :34:43. | |
reasonable idea, put more money. Would you expect an increase in | :34:44. | :34:49. | |
salary No. This is about putting more money towards frontline | :34:50. | :34:53. | |
services. What is your experience of that... About the same as it was | :34:54. | :34:58. | |
with frontline services which is nothing and in Staffordshire we are | :34:59. | :35:05. | |
not cutting, we have got rid of the waste, we can do the same but | :35:06. | :35:10. | |
together. You say there is a good record when it comes to police? This | :35:11. | :35:16. | |
is not about a bad example in one area and a good in another. It's | :35:17. | :35:21. | |
about evidence and looking at what he is doing. Collaborations are | :35:22. | :35:24. | |
happening already. People are working together and that can be | :35:25. | :35:28. | |
developed and we want to increase efficiency and deliver a better | :35:29. | :35:32. | |
service for the public. This doesn't necessarily bring a better service | :35:33. | :35:37. | |
to the public. The Police and Crime Commissioners, the accountability to | :35:38. | :35:40. | |
local authorities it's taken away, you know, I think Matthew was | :35:41. | :35:46. | |
elected by 11% turnout, you know, in his own area, that doesn't reflect | :35:47. | :35:49. | |
what the public are looking for. The public want to know that when they | :35:50. | :35:54. | |
get on a phone and need either an ambulance, they get an ambulance, if | :35:55. | :35:56. | |
they need a police officer, they want a police officer. I don't | :35:57. | :36:00. | |
understand why they won't? We are getting lost in the argument here | :36:01. | :36:04. | |
about providing proper Public Services. This is about cuts. That's | :36:05. | :36:09. | |
what these proposals are about. Matthew said he's protected | :36:10. | :36:14. | |
frontline services because he's put officers who're not physically | :36:15. | :36:17. | |
capable of being out there, they are taken out from jobs, being put back | :36:18. | :36:21. | |
in the back room and back on to the beat. That's the same thing with | :36:22. | :36:26. | |
Fire Service... Do you know what? Sorry... Firefighters have been | :36:27. | :36:32. | |
told, you will still climb ladders at 60. This entrenchment is bizarre. | :36:33. | :36:38. | |
We need public services to work together. It can happen in an | :36:39. | :36:43. | |
integrated way. We can save money from the back end and put it through | :36:44. | :36:48. | |
to the frontline. I can't believe... Nobody's disagreeing. This is about | :36:49. | :36:54. | |
the Government, the governance of police and fire. The police | :36:55. | :36:57. | |
commissioners can call for the Fire Service, that is going to be the | :36:58. | :37:01. | |
situation. This is not going to be about improving. I exist agree | :37:02. | :37:05. | |
fundamentally that we are entrenched because we adapt all the timep this | :37:06. | :37:09. | |
is about emergency services and people's lives, the bottom line. | :37:10. | :37:10. | |
Thank you all very much. Egg The World Health Organisation | :37:11. | :37:28. | |
says there's suspected brain damage being caused to babies in Brazil. | :37:29. | :37:35. | |
The Zika virus is carried by mosquitoes and there is currently no | :37:36. | :37:39. | |
vaccine or treatment available. So what causes the devastating virus? | :37:40. | :37:42. | |
Who is most at risk and how does it spread? This is the mosquito. It's | :37:43. | :37:50. | |
obviously not, that is a man. Anyway, I was going to show you the | :37:51. | :37:56. | |
mosquito. There it is. This is it infected with the virus and it can | :37:57. | :37:59. | |
pass it to humans with a single bite. It's the same mosquito which | :38:00. | :38:06. | |
also spread Dengue fever. The Zika virus was identified way back in | :38:07. | :38:10. | |
1947 in Uganda. But until a few months ago, it was not thought to be | :38:11. | :38:15. | |
a public health threat. 80% of those infected have no symptoms. In the | :38:16. | :38:19. | |
rest, it can cause a mild fever and headaches and a skin rash is common, | :38:20. | :38:25. | |
as is conjunctivitis, read and sore eyes. So what has changed? In less | :38:26. | :38:30. | |
than a year it's spread from Mexico, the Caribbean to South America and | :38:31. | :38:36. | |
now 21 countries, these red countries, most notably Brazil. The | :38:37. | :38:42. | |
red dot doctors believe represents a major threat to women affected in | :38:43. | :38:48. | |
the early stages of pregnancy. They think it will cause damaged brains | :38:49. | :38:56. | |
in babies, a condition known as microcephaly and they are | :38:57. | :39:00. | |
investigating 3,500 cases. More Tests are urgently being carried out | :39:01. | :39:09. | |
as it's not proven. It's that same man again! I am so sorry, he keeps | :39:10. | :39:16. | |
popping up. It's too cold in the UK for the mosquito so it's not a | :39:17. | :39:20. | |
public health threat here but global officials think in time it will | :39:21. | :39:23. | |
spread to more countries, including the United States. The Brazilian BBC | :39:24. | :39:32. | |
service joins us now. The advice from the WHO is what? For people to | :39:33. | :39:39. | |
take precautions because there is no cure for the virus but you have to | :39:40. | :39:45. | |
protect yourselves from the virus. People intending to get pregnant and | :39:46. | :39:48. | |
travelling to those areas should be careful. That is all they can do. | :39:49. | :39:52. | |
The virus is a challenge even for the big minds of the WHO. | :39:53. | :40:02. | |
Yes. In terms of protecting yourself, you're in Brazil, what is | :40:03. | :40:09. | |
happening? The Zika virus has been with us 30 years and has been | :40:10. | :40:18. | |
eradicated twice but it comes back. It can lay eggs in a drop of water. | :40:19. | :40:23. | |
It's the most powerful insecticide, has to be flying to be taken down. | :40:24. | :40:27. | |
It's powerful. What we have been taught to do since I was a teenager | :40:28. | :40:31. | |
is put a lot of repellant in and that's what the Government is doing | :40:32. | :40:35. | |
now, giving it for thousands of women in the social welfare | :40:36. | :40:41. | |
programmes. That's stuff that can protect you from the bite but | :40:42. | :40:47. | |
there's no perfect thing to do. There's epidemics and outbreaks and | :40:48. | :40:53. | |
challenges, Dengue has been there endemic for 30 years but it doesn't | :40:54. | :40:58. | |
have any link to birth defects. This is something that even the experts | :40:59. | :41:03. | |
in CDC et cetera are taken by surprise. Thank you very much. | :41:04. | :41:08. | |
The organisers of the National Lottery, who are looking | :41:09. | :41:10. | |
for the winner of a ?33 million jackpot, say they've received claims | :41:11. | :41:14. | |
from hundreds of people who say they bought the lucky ticket - | :41:15. | :41:16. | |
Jon Kay is at a newsagent in Worcester where the ownerthink | :41:17. | :41:23. | |
the genuine ticket may have been sold. | :41:24. | :41:30. | |
This is the Ambleside newsagents in the Warnden area of Worcester and | :41:31. | :41:38. | |
they think this is maybe the place that sold the lucky ticket but it | :41:39. | :41:42. | |
hasn't been verified yet. It's one of, as you say, we understand | :41:43. | :41:45. | |
hundreds of people who've come forward over the last few days | :41:46. | :41:51. | |
thinking maybe it was them. Camelot aren't saying where it was bought, | :41:52. | :41:54. | |
only that it was sold somewhere in Worcester because the identity of | :41:55. | :41:58. | |
the location of the sale is part of whole verification process. That | :41:59. | :42:02. | |
verification process is going on at Lottery HQ at the moment. Here is | :42:03. | :42:07. | |
the front-page of the Worcester News today: Hundreds of claims for that | :42:08. | :42:14. | |
?33m Lotto pot, one of the biggest lottery jackpot prizes that's ever | :42:15. | :42:17. | |
existed. They say here that a lady came in on | :42:18. | :42:22. | |
Friday with what looked like a soggy, damaged ticket with | :42:23. | :42:26. | |
apparently the right numbers. She said it had gone through the washing | :42:27. | :42:30. | |
machine. Other people have said they have lost their ticket, maybe that | :42:31. | :42:34. | |
they've had it stolen, something like that. Mr Patel, newsagent, good | :42:35. | :42:40. | |
morning to you. Hello, Sir. Since you went public as maybe having sold | :42:41. | :42:43. | |
the ticket, it's gone crazy here, you have had other people coming in | :42:44. | :42:48. | |
too? We have, yes, some people saying they bought the ticket but | :42:49. | :42:53. | |
lost it, misplaced it or whatever, so there are quite a few. Camelot | :42:54. | :42:58. | |
are inundated at the moment with people saying that they've lost | :42:59. | :43:02. | |
them, so Camelot have to investigate shim. What do you make of these | :43:03. | :43:06. | |
people who've been coming in, do you believe any of them? If that is the | :43:07. | :43:10. | |
truth, where were they until now. It sounds like you are doubting them? | :43:11. | :43:14. | |
Well, doubting them in the sense as if to say if someone was doubtful in | :43:15. | :43:20. | |
their own selves, if they had the ticket and the numbers, they ought | :43:21. | :43:23. | |
to have come through first. You are selling a lot of tickets as a result | :43:24. | :43:27. | |
aren't you, everybody seems to be playing the lottery this morning? We | :43:28. | :43:31. | |
hope and we believe we are a lucky shop so a lot more people think | :43:32. | :43:34. | |
they'll have the luck. You are the greatest winner in all of this, even | :43:35. | :43:38. | |
if none of your customers are! We wish a win for everyone. OK, sadly | :43:39. | :43:43. | |
not everybody can win, but maybe it could be somebody. See you maybe | :43:44. | :43:46. | |
again. Thanks a lot, bye. Could be you, Jon or me, could be | :43:47. | :43:50. | |
you. We had tickets! Thank you for your company today. Joanna is here | :43:51. | :43:52. | |
tomorrow. Have a good day. Eight famous pensioners are looking | :43:53. | :44:03. | |
to retire to an exotic land... I had never thought | :44:04. | :44:07. | |
about India, but maybe! | :44:08. | :44:12. |