01/12/2017 Victoria Derbyshire

Hello, it's Friday, it's 9am,

I'm Tina Daheeley -

welcome to the programme.

A former detective who examined

Damian Green's parliamentary

computer nine years ago has said

he has no doubt that the MP had

accessed pornography

found on the device.

Mr Green has always

denied the allegation.

There were a lot of them,

so I was surprised to see that

on a parliamenatry computer.

We'll bring you more on this story

later in the programme.

Darren Tunstall left his home

on a Sunday evening in December

and never came back -

that was 25 years ago.

His mum has been talking

to our programme exclusively

about why she believes

he is still alive.

It's the only thing I want in life.

I don't need or want anything else.

Just to know that he is happy,

because that's all I want. If he

wants to live the life that he's

living now... You know, I'm not

worried, I just want to know he's

safe.

And we will also speak

to a parent of a missing child,

and a charity dedicated to reuniting

missing people and their families.

Victoria Miligan lost her husband

and her young daughter in a speed

boat accident in 2013.

She was also badly injured and later

had one of her legs amputated.

Now thieves have stolen three

specially-cast limbs

from her car, worth £30,000.

They had knives, they smashed

the window, unlocked the car,

stole my bags from the boot,

and my friend's bag.

So that was all shocking

and dramatic, and what I then

I realised, to my horror,

what they had inside it,

which are my three

prosthetic legs, which are

so incredibly valuable to me.

Hello, welcome to the programme -

we're live until 11am this morning.

Lots coming up, including the first

British television interview

with model Kadian Noble who alleges

she was sexually assaulted

by disgraced Hollywood

mogul Harvey Weinstein.

She says it impacted her life

massively.

Did I do something wrong?

Why he treated me the way in which

he did? Because this is a man that I

massively looked up to, that I see

as the God of Hollywood, who can

make so many dreams a reality, has

the gift, the work which he has

created, it's magical, and him

approaching me, it was amazing. It

knocked me down so much, depression,

feeling suicidal.

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Our top story today...

A former Scotland Yard detective has

told BBC News he was "shocked"

by the amount of pornography

on a Parliamentary computer

seized from the office

of the First Secretary of State,

Damian Green.

Neil Lewis, a computer forensics

specialist, examined the device

during an inquiry into Government

leaks in 2008.

Mr Green has vehemently denied

looking at pornography at work.

Mr Lewis, who's now retired,

said he has "no doubt whatsoever"

that the images containing legal

pornographic material had been

accessed by Mr Green.

Our home affairs correspondent

Danny Shaw has this

exclusive report.

He's Theresa May's oldest and most

trusted political ally.

But now Damian Green is facing

a battle for political survival,

amid claims he viewed pornography

on his work computer.

Mr Green has vehemently

denied the allegations.

I have an exemplary record.

Now the detective who examined

the device has given me his account.

The shocking thing was that,

as I was viewing it,

I noticed a lot of pornography

thumbnails, which

indicated web browsing.

But a lot, there was a lot of them.

So I was surprised to see that

on a parliamentary computer.

How many images did you see?

Thousands.

Thousands of pornographic images?

Thumbnail images.

The computer had been seized

in 2008 after police raided

Damian Green's offices.

The MP, then in opposition,

was the subject of an unrelated

enquiry into Home Office leaks.

He was never charged.

How can you be sure

that it was Damian Green

who was accessing the pornography?

There is a phrase, you can't put

fingers on a keyboard.

So I can't say that.

But the computer was in Mr Green's

office, on his desk.

Logged in, it's his

account, his name.

In between browsing pornography,

he was sending emails from his

account, his personal account.

Reading documents,

writing documents.

The Cabinet Office is examining

the pornography claims

as part of a wider enquiry

into Mr Green's conduct.

But Neil Lewis has not been

asked to give evidence.

A spokesperson for Damian Green said

it would be inappropriate

for Mr Green to comment

while the Cabinet Office

investigation was continuing.

However, the spokesperson said

that Damian Green had...

Mr Green maintains his innocence.

Danny Shaw is with me in the studio.

Good morning to you. Why has he

decided to come forward now?

I think this has been a case that

has always bothered him from 2008,

2009. He was not comfortable with

it, he had a notebook, it was the

only one he kept when he left the

Metropolitan Police in 2014, a sign

of how uneasy he felt because I

think you felt the pornography

allegations had not been dealt with

properly at the time. The

pornography was legal but I think he

feels they should have been a

referable to the Parliamentary

standards Commissioner at the time.

But when he saw Damian Green's very

robust defence of the allegations

when they emerged in the Sunday

Times last month, as the accusing

Bob Quick, the former Metropolitan

Police commissioner, of effectively

live and political smears, Neil

Lewis felt he had to come to his

defence because he has an account of

what he believes he saw and he

thinks it is right that it comes out

into the open. I think the other is

you that is concerning him is that

the Cabinet Office inquiry has been

made aware of Neil Lewis but has not

taken evidence from him, and I think

he is worried about that, so he

wants his version out there at least

in the public domain, he feels there

is public interest in coming forward

now.

As for the pornography itself,

it is legal so why does it matter?

It is legal pornography, it was not

extreme, according to Neil Lewis,

there is no question they were

children there, no abusive images,

nothing like that, it was legal, and

if it was on private computers in

someone's home, in their own time, I

don't think we would be discussing

this at all, what people do in their

private life is their business. But

there is an issue around whether you

should be viewing pornography

particularly on an almost daily

basis in a workplace. I think most

employees found to have done that

would be sacked or at least face

severe disciplinary action. So there

is that question, and then a

question on truthfulness, whether or

not Mr Green is being truthful in

what he has said, he has defended

himself robustly, he maintained his

innocence, so that also comes into

play as well, the truthfulness of

politicians and leaders in public

office is a matter that is being

investigated by the Cabinet Office

inquiry.

Has Damian Green responded

to these latest claims?

He has said

that he did not download nor view

pornography on his work computers,

he has maintained that all along

throughout this whole affair.

OK,

for now, thank you very much indeed,

Danny Shaw, our home affairs

correspondent.

A spokesperson for Damian Green

said: "It would be inappropriate

for Mr Green to comment on these

allegations while the Cabinet Office

investigation is ongoing.

However, from the outset he has been

very clear that he never watched

or downloaded pornography

on the computers seized

from his office.

He maintains his innocence of these

charges and awaits the outcome

of the investigation."

It is 9:09am.

Annita is in the BBC

Newsroom with a summary

of the rest of the day's news.

Thank you, Tina. Good morning.

Royal Bank of Scotland has announced

it's to close 259 branches,

resulting in 680 job losses.

The latest round of closures

at the state-owned bank follows

180 announced in March.

The bank says it wants to reduce

costs and encourage customers to use

online and mobile services.

MPs scrutinising the Government's

Brexit plans say border controls

between Northern Ireland

and the Irish Republic

are inevitable if the UK leaves

the EU single market

and customs union.

The Commons Brexit Committee says

ministers have failed to explain how

the issue can be resolved,

and that the proposals

they've come up with,

such as the use of technology,

are "untested" and "speculative".

The Labour MP, Hilary Benn,

is the chair of the committee.

Currently, we don't see how it

will be possible to reconcile

on the one hand the objective

that the Government has set out,

that there should be no border

and no physical infrastructure

after we leave, which is

an objective that we all support

and share, including the government

of the Republic of Ireland.

And, on the other hand,

the decision the Government has

reached to leave the customs union

and the single market, because it

will then become the border

between the United Kingdom

and the other 27 member states

of the European Union.

Now, you're right, the Government

has suggested that technology

might provide the answer.

At the moment, however,

the Government admits

that its proposals are untested,

and, crucially, the Republic

of Ireland, which will be

on the other side of the border,

is not convinced that that can

deliver the 'no hard border,

no infrastructure' aim

that everyone shares.

That's why, as a committee today,

we've called on the Government

to set out in more detail how

exactly it thinks this

can be made to work,

because there does seem to be

a conflict between the two

things at the moment.

Health inspectors have ordered

a review of all NHS radiology

services in England,

after a hospital in Portsmouth

failed to spot three

cases of lung cancer.

The investigation by

the Care Quality Commission also

found that 20,000 chest scans had

not been assessed correctly

at the Queen Alexandra Hospital.

The Trust has apologised

to the families affected.

Mark Lobel reports.

An alarming backlog of unchecked

medical scans has been found

at the Queen Alexandra Hospital

in Portsmouth by the health services

regulator, after a member

of the public raised concerns.

The Care Quality Commission found

between 1st April 2016

and 31st March this year,

26,345 chest x-rays and 2,167

abdomen x-rays had not been formally

reviewed by a radiologist

or an appropriately-trained

clinician.

Some had been checked -

but by junior doctors,

who complained that they had been

asked to do so without

appropriate training.

In some cases where x-rays had

been declared clear,

radiologists went on to spot cancer

on later scans.

In a statement, the Care

Quality Commission said:

ortsmouth NHS

Portsmouth NHS Trust said:

The health regulator has now written

to all trusts in England

to build up a national picture

of how quickly patients'

x-rays are viewed.

But tackling the problem

will be tough.

Experts have warned of a desperate

shortage of radiologists

across the country.

And a backlog of hundreds of

thousands of x-rays and scans.

Survivors and relatives of those

who died in the Grenfell Tower fire

are warning that the public inquiry

risks becoming a whitewash,

unless a diverse panel is appointed

to oversee the proceedings.

They are petitioning

Theresa May to intervene.

They say the chairman,

Sir Martin Moore-Bick,

should sit with a range of people

who understand the issues facing

those affected by the disaster.

The Argentine navy has said there is

now no hope of rescuing the 44 crew

members of the submarine that

disappeared in the South Atlantic a

fortnight ago. They have said a

smaller scale search for the

wreckage of the San Juan will

continue.

Eight former ministers

in Catalonia's Government and two

separatist campaigners are to ask

Spain's Supreme Court

to release them from prison.

They were jailed a month ago

on charges of sedition and rebellion

following the declaration

of Catalan independence.

The region's former president,

Carles Puigdemont,

remains in Belgium,

where he is fighting extradition

to Spain on the same charges.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle

are to carry out their first joint

official visit later.

The couple, who announced

their engagement on Monday,

will meet members of the public at

a number of charities in Nottingham.

They're due to get married

at Windsor Castle in May.

That's a summary of the latest BBC

News - more at 9.30am.

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Let's get some sport

now with Katherine.

The draw for next summer's World Cup

is happening the afternoon, England

is the only home nation through,

what can we expect?

England and the other nations in the

draw will be able to look ahead to

what they can expect for the World

Cup in Russia next summer. For

England, the worst-case scenario

could be up against five-time

winners Brazil, seven time Africa

cup of Nations Egypt's, either one

of those dreaded draws against

Germany, but you have to wait to see

what it brings. BBC Two, 3pm this

afternoon, we will be inside the

Kremlin, Gary Lineker will be there

with the draw for the World Cup.

Manager Gareth Southgate, though,

has said he is not focusing on what

might come out, he is not thinking

about who you might play, simply

focusing on getting the players

ready to play whoever comes out of

the pot, and he is not yet

downplaying England's chances of

success in Russia next summer.

We have not won a knockout match

since 2006, so our last two

tournaments have been a

disappointment. So we have got to

remember where we are starting from

with this group of young players,

but equally they are fiercely

ambitious. I think everything is

ahead of them, and it's not for me

to put a limit on their

expectations.

What he's talking

about there is that England have

been focusing on the next World Cup

in 2022, saying that is where they

are pinpointing success, but he said

his players are likely to be at

their best in four years' time, but

inevitably with this draw those

discussions will kick off about

whether England can win the World

Cup. And we have had confirmation

this morning that Vladimir Putin,

the Russian president, is going to

be taking part in that ceremony as

well, they have been doing

rehearsals at the Kremlin and it is

set for 3pm on BBC Two.

Continuing the theme of the World

Cup, England are in the Rugby World

Cup tomorrow, playing Australia but

some bad news question mark yes,

England's football team might not be

likely to win a title but the rugby

team are in the final.

But bad news

overnight, their captain Sean

O'Loughlin has picked up a thigh

strain. He injured himself in the

semifinal over Tonga last weekend.

Heartbreak for him, having left his

side through to this first World Cup

final for 22 years. He will be

replaced, though, by Sam Burgess. A

huge name in rugby league. You will

remember, he switched over to union

and represented England at the last

Rugby union World Cup. All kinds of

criticism for him after that, fairly

or unfairly. He gets the chance to

crown a glittering rugby league

career for him. He will be a

brilliant leader, as well. Widely

regarded as a leader of men. An

obvious choice, really, to replace

Sean O'Loughlin, who is out injured.

But a huge match for England against

Australia. Nine o'clock tomorrow

British time. They take on

Australia, who have won the World

Cup ten times. They have won the

last 12 matches they have had

against England. England massive

underdogs. One of the benefits for

them going into this, Australia are

missing some of their key players,

which might play into England's

hands. You never know what happens

in the drama of a World Cup final.

It is live tomorrow on BBC for you.

Good to know, thank you.

Darren Tunstall left his family home

in east London on a Thursday

evening in December.

He left a note saying

he was going to see friends,

but he never returned.

That was 25 years ago.

This Sunday - the 3rd -

will mark a quarter of a century

since Darren disappeared.

The 20-year-old left no other clues

as to where he went.

His family has no idea why

he left or where he went.

Dan Clark-Neal has been speaking

exclusively to Darren's mum Ann,

ahead of the 25th anniversary

of her son's disappearance.

The last time I saw Darren

was on the Wednesday evening

and then I had to actually phone up

and report him a missing person.

And I've not heard one message

or anything from him

from that day to this.

Darren Tunstall left his family home

on December 3rd, 1992.

He was 20-years-old.

My relationship with Darren is very

close, always has been.

My first child born,

and he was such an easy-going child,

teenager, that I don't think we ever

had an argument.

I don't think Darren

ever argued with anyone.

He was a loner, he was a loner,

he didn't have a lot of friends, no.

None that visited the house, anyway.

Darren was Sister Theresa.

Anne last saw Darren

when he came to visit her

during a brief stay in hospital.

The following day he told his dad

he was going to see a friend.

He never returned.

I actually discharged myself

because I was so anxious about him

going that it upset me

and I couldn't take the procedure.

And when I came home, I did find

a note to say that he'd gone away

for a couple of days and he'd be

back at the weekend.

I waited until the weekend and then

I had to actually phone up and,

you know, report him

a missing person.

And I've not heard one message

or anything from him

from that day to this,

not a sighting.

Nothing?

No.

And, you know, he's 6'5",

you know, he's not somebody

who could shrink in a crowd.

But nothing.

I was devastated because I couldn't

understand what was happening,

or why it was happening.

My impression was he thought it

may be something worse

than what I was going in for.

There was no discussion,

there was no argument,

there was no issues.

Darren, the up-and-coming chef.

Today, Darren would be 45.

I still visualise Darren

as a 20-year-old.

I try to go forward and think

along the lines of he's

changed but I don't know

what I'm looking at.

I'm still looking at

Darren as a 20-year-old.

Hello, Missing Persons Unit.

Detective Sergeant James Hardingham

took on Darren's missing

persons case two years ago.

He says it's very unusual

for someone to go missing

with so few clues as to why.

This particular case

is a bit of a mystery to us.

Darren was 20 years of age

when he went missing just

before his birthday and there's been

no sightings since.

There's been very few leads

for us to follow on,

and it is strange for someone to be

away from their family for such

a long period of time,

without either making

contact or having some sort

of sign to say that

he is still about.

It will be 25 years on 2nd

of December, and all I want to say

is if there's anybody that

knows his whereabouts,

or knows of him, would they either

contact the missing people,

or contact one of the family,

just to know that he's

OK and he is happy.

What would it mean

to you to know that?

Just everything.

It's the only thing I want in life.

I don't need or want anything else.

Just to know that he's happy.

Because that's all I want.

If he wants to live the life

that he is living now,

you know, I'm not worried.

I just want to know that he's safe.

People go missing for very different

reasons.

Maybe he just wanted to

live an independent life. Maybe he

wanted to stay away, something

around mental health. There's a lot

of contributing factors for someone

to go missing. But as we mentioned,

Darren is quite a unique case.

In

some cases, people don't want to be

found.

I do understand that, but

it's the family that's left behind.

It's suffering so much, just for a

phone call, and I would say that to

everybody who is missing. I've had a

few phone calls and there's been no

video at the end of it. I just

straightaway think it's him. There's

some silly people that phone up and

don't talk on things like that, but

I just always visualise it's him.

But I've never had a word, not one

word.

Is there any small part of you

that thinks Darren may have passed

away?

Well, no, not in my mind, no,

definitely not. No.

Do you think he

still out there somewhere?

I do, yeah, I feel he is, yeah.

I feel he is.

I don't want to even

think about that.

Police agree there is every chance

Darren is still alive.

Every person that is reported

missing or an unidentified body that

has been found, we run that across

and compare that to the cases that

we are dealing with. So if anything

had have come up now with Darren's

distinctive features, we'd have

identified if Darren had been found

in other any manner, whether it was

someone that had died for whatever

cause, or someone that had come to

the police attention through other

means.

He has built a strong relationship

with the family since taking on

Darren's case. How do you feel about

the anniversary coming up now?

It's

kind of upsetting, very upsetting.

But I think what you've done, and

the organisation has done, it is

amazing, to be quite honest. And you

have always been there for me.

Where

do you think he is?

I couldn't even

guess. He liked Cornwall. When we

went on holidays, he liked Ireland.

But if he went to anybody in Ireland

or he was in Ireland and he went to

one of my family, then they would

let me know. So I know he's not in

Ireland or visible in Ireland or

anyone has seen him. But I honestly

could not answer that question

truthfully, because I don't know.

If

Darren is watching today, what would

you want to say to him?

I would want to say

how much I love him.

Always have done.

And I would just encourage him

to call somebody just to let us

know, let the family know

that he's OK.

And I wish it would just end

because we just love him so much.

All of us.

A bit later programme we will speak

to Clare Cooke from missing people,

and also to Peter Boxall, whose son

went missing at the age of 15 in

1988. That is coming up after 10am

this morning.

The Royal Bank of Scotland

is cutting hundreds of jobs

and closing more than 250 RBS

and NatWest branches

across the country -

Kevin Peachy is here with me.

What has happened? 259 branches of

RBS and NatWest, that is one in four

of their branch network. There are

680 jobs going as well. The Unite

union says that is savage. The

reason for it? It is all to do with

mobile phones and the Internet.

One

of those.

Exactly, we are banking on

the go. According to industry

analysts, we're only going to visit

our bank branch about four times a

year by 2022, because we are using

apps and we are using the Internet

and we are just simply not going

into pay in checks and all those

traditional things that got people

queueing up outside the branches.

That may be true for you and me but

doesn't always apply to people who

are older and who do go into banks

and use them, rely on them all the

time. What about the people who are

worried about these branches

closing?

Yes, those left behind.

According to a recent report into

bank branch closures, to some people

it is like a bereavement, which is

incredible really. That they are so

attached to their branch. So there

is a brawl in place that says,

signed up to buy all the major

banks, say if the bank branches

closing and a local area, they must

support people with explaining what

the alternatives are. They are, for

example, going to the post office,

even new ATMs are doing many of

these functions but there must be

specially trained staff in place to

help people through and there must

be particular support for the

elderly and vulnerable.

Kevin, for

now, thank you very much.

Still to come...

A national review is taking place

after a hospital in Portsmouth

missed lung cancer cases

because staff who weren't

suitably trained were

carrying out the scans.

We'll look at why this could have

happened and the steps taken to keep

patients safe in the future.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle

are due to visit a World Aids Day

charity fair later, in the couple's

first joint official

public engagement.

It's an issue close

to Prince Harry's,

and his late mother Diana's, heart.

We'll talk to two people who have

been diagnosed with HIV.

Time for the latest

news - here's Annita.

The headlines on BBC News:

A former Scotland Yard detective has

told BBC News he was "shocked"

by the amount of pornography

on a Parliamentary computer

seized from the office

of the First Secretary of State,

Damian Green.

Neil Lewis, a computer forensics

specialist, examined the device

during an inquiry into

Government leaks in 2008.

Mr Lewis, who's now retired,

said he has "no doubt whatsoever"

that the images containing legal

pornographic material had been

accessed by Mr Green.

Mr Green has vehemently denied

looking at pornography at work.

Royal Bank of Scotland has announced

it's to close 259 branches

resulting in 680 job losses.

The latest round of closures

at the state-owned bank follows

180 announced in March.

The bank says it wants to reduce

costs and encourage customers to use

online and mobile services.

MPs scrutinising the Government's

Brexit plans says border controls

between Northern Ireland

and the Irish Republic

are inevitable if the UK

leaves the EU single

market and customs union.

The Commons Brexit Committee says

ministers have failed to explain how

the issue can be resolved,

and that the proposals

they've come up with,

such as the use of technology,

are "untested" and "speculative".

Four Conservatives and one

Democratic Unionist MP refused

to endorse the report.

Survivors and relatives of those

who died in the Grenfell Tower fire

are warning that the public inquiry

risks becoming a whitewash,

unless a diverse panel is appointed

to oversee the proceedings.

They are petitioning

Theresa May to intervene,

and they say the chairman,

Sir Martin Moore-Bick,

should sit with a range of people

who understand the issues facing

those affected by the disaster.

The Argentine navy has said

there is now no hope of rescuing

the 44 crew members

of a submarine that disappeared

in the South Atlantic two weeks ago.

A navy spokesman said

the international rescue operation

had officially ended,

but a smaller-scale

search for the wreck

of the San Juan would continue.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle

are to carry out their first joint

official visit later.

The couple, who announced

their engagement on Monday,

will meet members of the public

at charities in Nottingham.

They'll be married at

Windsor Castle in May.

That's a summary of

the latest BBC News.

Here's some sport now with Kat.

It's the day of destiny

for the 32 teams competing

at the World Cup next summer.

England have already chosen

their base near St Petersberg,

and they'll find out who they face

during the draw to be

held in the Kremlin

at 3pm this afternoon.

Sam Burgess will captain

England in tomorrow's

Rugby League World Cup final.

He replaces Sean O'Loughlin,

who's injured.

Burgess will also move

into the loose forward role,

with Ben Currie promoted

to the starting line-up

in the second row.

England all-rounder Moeen Ali

may not be fit to bowl

in the second Ashes Test,

which starts tomorrow.

He cut his finger in the defeat

in Brisbane but he'll

still play as a batsman,

even if he can't bowl.

He's been out since February

after more back surgery,

but Tiger Woods described his

opening round as "great",

as he made his latest return

to golf in the Bahamas.

He shot a three-under-par 69.

Not bad at all. Thank you.

The Care Quality Commission -

the independent inspector

of health services -

has revealed that a Portsmouth

hospital has a huge

backlog of 23,000 x-rays

going back a year that have not been

formally reviewed by a radiologist

or appropriately-trained clinician.

Inspectors discovered there have

been three serious incidents

where patients with lung cancer had

suffered significant harm

because their chest x-rays had not

been properly assessed

at Queen Alexandra Hospital -

a situation dubbed "clearly

unacceptable" by the regulator.

It comes amid a national

shortage of radiologists -

the CQC is now conducting a review

of all NHS England Trusts.

Let's talk now to Dr Caroline Rubin,

she's a vice-president from

the Royal College of Radiologists.

Paula Chadwick is CEO of the Roy

Castle Lung Cancer Foundation.

Siobhain McCurrach

is from the watchdog

Healthwatch Portsmouth -

they've been working

with the hospital over the past few

months on various issues reported

by the CQC.

Caroline, how significant, it sounds

like a shocking number, but how

significant is a delay of 23,000

x-rays?

It can be very significant

because within those unreported

images there may be significant

disease, we have heard about three

cancers that were missed and

progressed during that time, but

there is also a worry for patients

who may not have any significant

disease that their x-rays are normal

and they are not appropriately

reassured.

The CQC has found staff

who were not suitably trained were

carrying out scans just manage the

volume. How worrying that?

From what

I have read, I think that Portsmouth

were using junior doctors and senior

doctors on the wards and in clinics

to review the images, rather than

trained radiologists, and the RCR

advises that all images, the

majority of images, are reviewed and

reported on by qualified

radiologists who are specially

trained over at least five years in

all imaging modalities, including

chest x-rays and abdominal x-rays,

which is the subject of the report.

Sherborne, you have been involved in

improvement plans for the hospital,

in your opinion how bad have things

become -- Siobhain, you have been

involved.

We have been working with

the hospital through the feedback we

have received from patients to try

to improve how services are

delivered, and we rely on people in

Portsmouth to provide us with that

feedback so we can hopefully

influence decision-making to go

forward to improve services, and

often patients have very sensible,

common-sense suggestions to make,

and we are encouraging Healthwatch

Portsmouth members, stakeholders,

anyone who is interested in getting

involved, to help us provide that

feedback to reflect important

observation is that they have made

as they are around the hospital.

Can

you give us examples of the feedback

you have been receiving,

particularly at the worsening of the

scale?

We haven't received specific

feedback on the x-rays issue, but

have been receiving specific

feedback on particular services

within the emergency department or

gastroenterology department.

Paula,

what is your response to these

23,000 delays?

Firstly I would like

to say how sad and we are to hear

about these, these are people we are

talking about, not statistics, and

unfortunately they have been really

let down by the local health

services.

How does eight wait like

this, not knowing, not receiving

confirmation, reassurance that

nothing is wrong, or a late

diagnosis, how does that affect

patients?

It affects it

dramatically, and we know that early

diagnosis of lung cancer have a

significant impact on outcomes for

patients, so the earlier you were

diagnosed, it means there is

potential curative treatment. If

that diagnosis is delayed or

unfortunately latecomer diagnosis

made when the disease is advanced,

then unfortunately that reduces the

opposite -- options with curative

treatment, though there is treatment

for extension of life, but it takes

away the option for potential

curative treatment.

Can you give us

examples of timescales? And what the

repercussions could be? The

consequences with a late diagnosis

in terms of days and months?

We know

that 45,000 people are diagnosed

every year with lung cancer.

Unfortunately within one year,

35,000 of those will die so the

importance is that what we do have

is that very late diagnosis, the

normal average is about 200 days

from very late diagnosis to death.

So the importance, really, I can't

emphasise how important it is that

we have early diagnosis, which means

rapid access to CT scans and chest

x-rays but alongside that the

investment in having enough

radiologists to read those scans,

the specialist to read the scans.

Is

it especially bad from lung cancer

outcomes?

Rapid access the lung

cancer is very, very, yes, makes a

huge difference, a significant

difference into the outcomes of the

patients. It is the difference

between curative treatment and late

diagnosis is more about palliative

care.

How critical, Caroline, is the

shortage of radiologists?

It is very

critical and it doesn't just affect

Portsmouth, it affects a number of

other hospitals around the country.

The RCR has done snapshot surveys of

backlogs and there is only one in

five hospitals not reporting a

backlog of over a month. We need

significant increase in the number

of radiologists. The workload goes

up three times the rate of the

increase in radiologists and the UK

has the third lowest number of

radiologists per population in

Europe.

What is at the heart of the

problem? Is this about a lack of

investment in training new

radiologists, or are people not

interested in going for those jobs

and being trained to be radiologists

in the first place?

There is no lack

of interest in training in

radiology, we have just had the

figures for the applicants, there

are radiology opposed to the 2018,

there are over 900 applicants and

last year we appointed in the region

of 267 radiology trainees, so we

have plenty of applicants. We need

more training posts. The college and

departments around the country are

enabling access for those trainees

and increasing training capacity, so

it is really down to funding of

additional posts.

And why is the

workload of radiologists increasing?

I think it is largely because most

diagnoses are made now in every

patient with diagnostic imaging and

it is becoming the mainstay of

patient pathways, and it is the

complex imaging, particularly the CT

and MRI that is increasing, which

gives more intricate detail and

information compared with

radiography.

What training is

involved in becoming a radiologist

in the first place?

In becoming a

radiologist, a five-year training

programme in all imaging modalities

and all diseases, and if you want to

become an interventional radiologist

there as an additional year of

training required because

radiologists don't only do the

diagnosis, in terms of the imaging,

they do image guided biopsies and

interventions as well.

Going

forward, Siobhain, how are you going

to make sure that change actually

happens? I know this is not a

problem isolated to Portsmouth but

this particular hospital has been

highlighted.

We are working with the

hospitals trust in their quality

improvement plan, involving work

streams which we have been invited

to take part in over the next few

months, so we are going to be using

the evidence we have received from

patients to provide suggestions for

service improvements, both current

and future services.

Caroline,

Siobhain, Paula, thank you for

joining us this morning.

Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust chief

executive Mark Cubbon said: "We have

issued an unreserved apology

to the families of the three

patients who experienced harm

because of the delays to their care.

We have carried out a thorough

review of the scans and X-rays

reported so far - to date, nearly

50% of the backlog has been cleared

and we are in touch with any

patients as necessary."

Coming up:

A woman who lost her legs

in an accident that killed her

husband and daughter has now

had her prosthetic legs stolen.

We'll speak to her about

the effect that's had on her.

Prince Harry and his new fiancee

Meghan Markle will make their first

royal engagement today.

They're attending a charity fair

in Nottingham which is

marking World Aids Day -

an issue close to the Prince

and his late mother

Princess Diana's heart.

HIV is a virus which damages

the cells in a person's immune

system and weakens their ability

to fight everyday infection.

There are currently 100,000 people

living with HIV in the UK,

but now there are drugs which means

the diagnosis is no longer a death

sentence, do we still need

a day dedicated to it?

Let's first hear from

Elton John and David Furnish.

The couple spoke to Victoria a year

ago about their work

with Aids and HIV.

We've come so far scientifically

with this disease, more so than any

other disease in the world that,

you know, you shouldn't be afraid of

finding out your status

because there is now one or two

pills a day you can take.

In the past we

had AZT and people died.

Nowadays, we've come so far

with scientific discovery

and medicines have changed.

You can lead a very

healthy life with it.

You can live with HIV,

you don't die with it any

more, you live with it.

And, so, the more people

get tested and find

out their status, the more

likelihood that we will beat this

disease, or end it sooner

rather than later.

I don't know if you've seen

the survey this week that

suggests that a third of British

people think you can transfer HIV

through sharing a toothbrush.

I'm not surprised.

A Northern Ireland politician

said the other day he

didn't know that heterosexual people

could get AIDS, or HIV.

So, it's like, "What planet

are you living on?"

These are also misconceptions

from the 1980s.

I know!

It's crazy.

It shows in the fight against this

disease we can make fantastic

medical advances.

We can make great gains.

But stigma is a much more

difficult thing to shift.

Joining us now are two people

who have been diagnosed with HIV.

Jo Josh found out in 2008.

Krishen Samuel found out a year

later, when he was 22.

Also joining us is the director

of Stop Aids, Mike Podmore.

Jo, I want to start with you,

diagnosed in 2008, can you take us

back to that day and tell us what

happened when you found out?

I was

unusual in that I was really ill,

just after I had been infected, most

people probably don't know for

years, that is why there is a

problem, because they are not

tested, they don't know, they will

infect someone else. I was

difficult, I was very ill, which was

good for me commitment I could be

treated immediately and understand

what was happening.

What were your

symptoms?

I had a high temperature,

swollen glands, the temperature kept

going up and down, wouldn't go away.

When I was told that I was

HIV-positive, I can honestly

remember just two things, and they

are, I said, I can't die, my

daughter needs me, as a single

mother, and an HIV nurse who I still

know said I could live to be 100,

but I remember nothing else at all

from a 15 minute conversation.

What

has life been like since then?

It

took a couple of years to get my

head around it. Knowledge is power,

you have to have information to

understand what is happening, to be

able to adjust. I didn't know

anything about HIV, I didn't know

anybody who was HIV-positive. After

that, and also being involved with

quite a few of the National

organisations like the National aids

trust, I met other people and it is

talking to other people that

actually makes you feel OK. It is

like, we have been talking outside

and we both think exactly the same

thing, you were saying that,

Krishen?

You are diagnosed around the same

time, just a year apart, how did you

find out what happened?

My story is

a bit different from Jo's. I was

living in South Africa and it has a

large infection rate, the Heisenberg

people living with HIV globally. As

a sexually active man, I knew there

was a chance I could become infected

so I got regularly tested but all of

the test had been negative.

How

often were you tested?

In one year I

got tested eight times, the year

before my diagnosis, and they were

all negative. A huge sigh of relief

each time, going through the whole

process, the anxiety and so forth.

The ninth HIV test I had was

positive, unfortunately. I didn't

have any symptoms, I wasn't ill but

I knew as a sexually active gay man

I needed to get tested. Living in

the country in the world with the

most people with HIV, there was a

chance I would contract it. It was

devastating at the time. You're

questioning your survival and you're

thinking, am I going to survive, how

am I going to get through this? That

is really tricky, really difficult.

Receiving news like that, you are

never fully prepared for it.

It is

difficult to sum up a decade but

what has life been for you -- like

for you since then?

Great in many

senses, I've been incredibly

healthy, I'm on medication, I'm

undetectable which means my viral

load is very well managed. I can't

pass the virus on to anyone else.

I've had incredibly supportive

family and friends. Since moving to

London I've done activism with

groups and I've had a really

positive journey. I know that for

many people living with HIV, the

stigma, that discrimination means

they can't be as open about their

status, they can't talk about it,

not necessarily on television but to

their family or friends or people

close to them. In that sense, I've

been incredibly lucky.

Mike, I want

to talk to about testing but before

I do, much progress have we made?

We've made both globally and in the

UK, in the UK we've made a really

good progress, particular in recent

years. What we founded in 2016, the

UN targets for treatment and

diagnosis. And for the first time in

2016, there was a reduction in net

infection in gay men for the first

time in 30 years. Taking important

progress in the UK but still some

significant challenges we have to

face. Government funding for HIV

prevention. And also a problem that

there are still a considerable lack

of awareness among the public.

It is

obviously good this is an issue that

is very close to Prince Harry's

heart and his mother's. And the

impact of it being their first royal

engagement as a couple will be huge

and help raise awareness. But

outside of that, we don't seem to be

talking about HIV as much as we may

have done in the past.

That is

right. When I was a teenager in the

1980s we had big campaigns, don't

die of ignorance campaigns, they had

a big impact, especially me. I think

we need to have more public

education campaigns that alert

people to how you can transmit the

virus and how you can protect

yourself from HIV and what it means

to be living with HIV, that it is a

chronic disease that can be managed

and you can live for life. I think

challenging the misunderstanding and

misconceptions are really important

is.

Even now?

Absolutely.

You give

us a sense of the situation in the

UK and how it compares globally?

As

he said at the beginning of the

programme, 100,000 people around

living with HIV in the UK. We are

making significant progress. We need

to keep investing to make sure we

continue that progress.

Sorry, what

about testing. How are people tested

and who are they encouraged to be

tested by in this country?

I do

talks in colleges and schools. You

are saying people don't know enough,

and they don't. I was with some

brilliant kids in Brighton yesterday

and they really don't know. Being

able to tell them if they watch

television tomorrow they might just

see Prince Harry being tested.

And

Rihanna a year ago.

Absolutely. The

thing with him, it makes it normal

and wholesome. People with HIV are

sort of demonised. All of the

negative, wrong publicity about

spitting. You cannot transmit HIV by

spitting. It is a disgusting thing

to do but it won't give somebody

HIV. Those sorts of things make

people very negative, as if you must

be a bad person if you have HIV.

It

is also important for us to talk

about STIs in general, that young

people are at risk of contracting

STIs and HIV. I did a talk earlier

this year and spoke to lots of

people around the country are many

of them didn't have the awareness of

contracting HIV or other sexually

transmitted infections. Many young

people are more concerned about

unwanted pregnancies and so forth.

It's important for us to have the

discussion around HIV about getting

tested frequently, because the

testing is important on many

different levels. You can find out

if you're HIV negative or positive.

If you are HIV positive you can

start treatment immediately, which

means you won't infect someone else.

It is so important that you

encourage testing and initiatives

such as HIV testing week are so

important.

How often should you be

tested?

I think you should be tested

definitely frequently, just for your

own...

What does frequently mean? If

someone is watching, every three

months, for everyone?

If you are

sexually active and not sure of your

status.

Not just high-risk groups?

That's right. Any time you're about

to start a new relationship boy if

you haven't been tested recently, go

and get a test. It's easy, at your

sexual health clinic with your

doctor to get a test and it takes

minutes. A prick of the finger and

can find out.

New research from the

National aids trust which reveals

meths and stigma are still common in

the press. What are the most common

misconceptions people have? You

mentioned spitting, Jo Whistler also

that you can transmit HIV through

kissing or biting.

Fighting has got

quite big! Sorry to interrupt,

biting has got quite big recently

and it is not true, but there are

still people who think if they touch

something you have touched, it will

cause problems. I've been in a

situation in a doctor 's surgery

where a nurse and fortunately shared

my status with the people there. You

could see them moving away.

It's a

real challenge, in terms of the

stigma that still surrounds HIV and

which people experience on a daily

basis. I think it separates HIV from

any other chronic diseases and it

shouldn't be. We have do understand

and combat that stigma and that's

down to raising awareness and

through public education campaigns,

like I mentioned, but also in

schools. It is important to make

people aware it is possible to live

a full life living with HIV. If you

are responding to treatment and in

some cases you don't pass it on.

World AIDS Day is still really

important.

It is partly for memory

to remember the people that died.

Freddie Mercury, 26 years ago this

week, died. He didn't want the

diagnosis or a test because at that

time there was nothing, no

medication he could take. They knew

if he was tested, that was it, he

would just know he was going to die.

Originally people took 30 pills a

day, now it's on.

It's about three

things, I think. As well as wearing

the red ribbon, it's about three

things. We mentioned remembering. 35

million people have died from the

disease since the epidemic began. We

need to remember them. Secondly, we

need to stand in solidarity with the

36.7 million people around the world

who are living with HIV at the

moment, and many of whom don't have

access to the services many of us

enjoying the UK. Thirdly, it's about

renewing our commitment to fight the

disease globally. As we mentioned,

we are doing really well in the UK

but we need to maintain that

progress. Globally, however, we have

been making progress but 21 million

people have access to but still 50

million people don't have access to

even basic treatment. -- 15 million.

We need to make faster progress with

prevention and in many countries

they are criminalising laws that

prevent people from accessing the

services they need. There are many

groups around the world who are

particularly affected by HIV. Many

who have sex men cut gay men, sex

workers, injecting drug users, and

many of them live in countries where

they don't have access to services,

where they are criminalised. We have

significant challenges. Just at this

point, as we are doing well but have

a long way to go, we are finding

that global donors are deep

prioritising HIV. We have had in the

last couple of years a reduction in

funding. This is exactly the wrong

thing that we need to be doing,

because what it risks is a

resurgence of the disease and a

higher cost, in terms of lives, and

funding in the long term. What we

need, the UN estimates we need an

additional $7 billion by 2020. If we

can invest that money, what happens

if we can make the progress in

treatment and prevention and

reducing infections which would get

us on the right trajectory to 2030

to meet the UN goal of ending Aids

by 2030.

Ujah stated the case there.

Thank you. I wanted to ask you both,

on a day-to-day basis, living with

HIV, living perfectly normal lives,

at what point, if you are dating for

example, would you tell someone you

have it?

That is always a difficult

question to answer. I find I

experience quite a lot of

discrimination and stigma and I

always need to think about when

would be the right time to tell

somebody. In the LGBT community and

gay community there is still a lot

of

misinformation. People still don't

know a lot about how HIV is

transmitted and what undetectable

means. Really there is no right

time. I've been rejected frequently

as a result of my HIV status.

When

you say rejected, from partners or

people you've been on a date with?

Partners, people I'm dating, if I

tell them I'm HIV positive they

don't want to deal with it because

they don't have the correct

information. It is always difficult.

You don't now how people will deal

with it when you come out with that.

Thank you both very much indeed.

Let's get the latest weather update.

A few snowflakes yesterday and a

mild sense of panic in the capital.

Simon King, how does it look for the

weekend?

Simon King, how does it look for the

weekend?

A few flakes falling in the capital

and lots of excitement. Snow

affecting eastern areas on the north

and east of Scotland yesterday. This

morning, still a few snow flurries

across the Scottish Borders, the

north-east of England, but much less

snow this morning compared to

yesterday morning. Temperatures are

rising little bit. The wind

direction changes to north-westerly

direction and with that some less

cold air is going to filter in over

the next few days. For many of us,

quite a bit of cloud this morning.

Cloudy conditions prevalent over the

next few days. This morning we had a

few snow showers, but increasingly

any snow will turn back to rain.

Still a few showers affecting these

eastern areas of England. Across

Scotland, snow disappears. Still

some lying snow over higher ground,

but more cloud this afternoon,

patchy rain spreading in and

temperatures on the rise. 7 degrees

in Stornoway. A bit of rain for

Northern Ireland. For much of

north-west England, Wales and the

south-west of England, looking like

a dry and sunny afternoon. We have

lost the showers in Pembrokeshire

and Cornwall. There will still be a

few rain showers affecting East

Yorkshire, Lincoln Chafee and down

towards East Anglia. Through

tonight, cloud will continue to move

further southward and with it some

patchy rain spreading into central

and southern areas across Wales, but

with a blanket of cloud overnight

tonight, not as cold as it has been

on previous nights this week.

Temperatures staying up in about

2-3, so above freezing.

The less cold air is going to filter

right across the UK over the

weekend. With that milder weather,

there will be a lot more cloud

around and there will also be a

little bit of rain, particularly on

Saturday.

Looking at Saturday, a cloudy and

grey start to the day. With that,

some rain affecting Wales through

East Anglia and the south-east of

England. Much of that will play. For

many of us, a dry day on Saturday.

Further rain spreading to the far

north of Scotland. Some breaks in

the cloud developing to give some

bright spells but for most of us,

fairly cloudy. Look at those

temperatures, 7-9.

Saturday night will see this weather

fronts move southwards. It will

introduce a bit more rain to central

and southern areas early on on

Sunday morning. That will clear. For

many of us on Sunday, a cloudy day,

a few breaks developing in the crowd

here and there. Largely dry

conditions. Up to 11. See you later.

Hello, it is 10am, I am Tina the

Healy.

A former detective says he has no

doubts the senior Cabinet minister,

Damian Green, accessed pornography

on a computer in his

parliamentary office

when he was an opposition MP

nine years ago.

Mr Green has denied doing so.

The computer was in Mr Green's

office, on his desk,

logged in, it's his

account, his name.

In between browsing pornography,

he was sending emails from his

account, from his personal account.

The first British television

interview with model Kadian Noble,

who alleges she was sexually

assaulted by Hollywood

mogul Harvey Weinstein,

and accuses him of sex trafficking.

I kept saying stop,

and he would take a firm grip of me

and told me to relax

and to trust him, and I think part

of me massively shut down.

Darren Tunstal went

missing 25 years ago.

His mother thinks he

might still be alive.

And she's been speaking

exclusively to this programme.

I've had a few phonecalls

and there's been no-one

at the end of it.

I just straight away think it's him.

There are some silly people that

phone up and don't talk, but I just

always visualise it's him.

And we'll hear from a father whose

15-year-old son went missing

almost 30 years ago.

Good morning.

Here's Annita in the BBC Newsroom

with a summary of today's news.

A former Scotland Yard detective has

told BBC News he was "shocked"

by the amount of pornography

on a Parliamentary computer

seized from the office

of the First Secretary of State,

Damian Green.

Neil Lewis, a computer forensics

specialist, examined the device

during an inquiry into

Government leaks in 2008.

Mr Lewis, who's now retired,

said he has "no doubt whatsoever"

that the images containing legal

pornographic material had been

accessed by Mr Green.

Mr Green has vehemently denied

looking at pornography at work.

Royal Bank of Scotland has announced

it's to close 259 branches

resulting in 680 job losses.

The latest round of closures

at the state-owned bank follows

180 announced in March.

The bank says it wants to reduce

costs and encourage customers to use

online and mobile services.

MPs scrutinising the Government's

Brexit plans says border controls

between Northern Ireland

and the Irish Republic

are inevitable if the UK leaves

the EU single market

and customs union.

The Commons Brexit Committee says

ministers have failed to explain how

the issue can be resolved,

and that the proposals

they've come up with,

such as the use of technology,

are "untested" and "speculative".

The Labour MP, Hilary Benn,

is the chair of the committee.

Currently, we don't see how it

will be possible to reconcile

on the one hand the objective

that the Government has set out,

that there should be no border

and no physical infrastructure

after we leave, which is

an objective that we all support

and share, including the government

of the Republic of Ireland.

And, on the other hand,

the decision the Government has

reached to leave the customs union

and the single market, because it

will then become the border

between the United Kingdom

and the other 27 member states

of the European Union.

Now, you're right, the Government

has suggested that technology

A hospital failed to spot cases

of lung cancer because it did not

check patients' chest X-rays

properly, the Care Quality

Commission has found.

The health watchdog says three

patients at Queen Alexandra Hospital

in Portsmouth suffered "significant

harm".

Junior doctors complained they had

been asked to carry out

specialist radiology work

without the appropriate training.

The CQC has now launched

a review of NHS radiology

services in England.

Survivors and relatives of those

who died in the Grenfell Tower fire

are warning that the public inquiry

risks becoming a whitewash,

unless a diverse panel is appointed

to oversee the proceedings.

They are petitioning

Theresa May to intervene,

and they say the chairman,

Sir Martin Moore-Bick,

should sit with a range of people

who understand the issues facing

those affected by the disaster.

The Argentine navy has said

there is now no hope of rescuing

the 44 crew members of a submarine

that disappeared in the South

Atlantic two weeks ago.

A navy spokesman said

the international rescue operation

had officially ended,

but a smaller-scale

search for the wreck

of the San Juan would continue.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle

are to carry out their first joint

official visit later.

The couple, who announced

their engagement on Monday,

will meet members of the public

at a number of charities

in Nottingham.

They'll be married at

Windsor Castle in May.

That's a summary of

the latest BBC News.

More at 10.30am.

Do get in touch with us

throughout the morning -

use the hashtag #VictoriaLIVE.

If you text, you will be charged

at the standard network rate.

Here's some sport now with Kat.

It's the moment that really kicks

off the countdown to the World Cup.

The draw begins at around

3pm this afternoon

in the Kremlin, with England

and the other 31 teams in the hat

finding out who and when they'll be

playing their group games.

Our sports news correspondent

Richard Conway will be watching.

It is Russia's moment in the

spotlight, with final rehearsals for

the World Cup draw ensuring nothing

is left to chance. Some of the

biggest names in the game are here

to lend a hand, too. Amongst them,

one of England's 1966 heroes, who

hopes the current squad can make

their mark next summer.

If they can

get this team together, playing with

each other, for each other, then

there is always a chance.

England

will base themselves in a village

north of Saint Petersburg with their

manager looking forward to what lies

ahead.

We don't have many players

that have won major trophies, but

the future is very exciting, it is a

great challenge for this group to

see how far they can go.

Star

attractions both on and off the

pitch will draw thousands of fans

here to Russia next summer.

Organisers say everyone will be

welcome for what they believe will

be a festival of football.

Nevertheless the game here has had

problems in the recent past,

specifically with racism and

violence, but campaigners are

cautiously optimistic that things

may be improving.

We have moved from

a position of denial to a state

where the Russians understand that

they need to clean up the stadiums,

deal with some of the fans that are

the hard-core, otherwise people

won't want to come and it may well

rebound back at them during the

World Cup.

Today, though, the focus

is on the big draw, with all 32

teams keen to discover their

footballing fate. Richard Conway,

BBC News, Moscow.

England's footballers might be hard