:00:14. > :00:17.Tonight: Suing a hospital trust over there some's disability. Paul
:00:17. > :00:23.Kirkland's family says an infection he packed up as ABB 30 years ago
:00:23. > :00:28.means that the needs constant care. In the controversial U-turn over
:00:28. > :00:36.smoking. Why the health trust plans to build shelters for smokers to
:00:36. > :00:41.stand on. My opinion is, give us a shelter, let us have a cigarette.
:00:41. > :00:51.And later on, straight from the horses mouth. How did our weather
:00:51. > :00:54.
:00:54. > :00:57.presenter get on in her glorious The family of a disabled man are
:00:57. > :01:00.taking Oxford's biggest hospital to court - claiming he and other
:01:00. > :01:03.children suffered brain damage as a result of negligence 30 years ago.
:01:03. > :01:06.Paul Kirtland's family say his condition was caused by an infection
:01:06. > :01:09.contracted at birth in the Special Care Baby Unit at the John
:01:09. > :01:19.Radcliffe. The hospital Trust denies any liability. Angela Walker has the
:01:19. > :01:19.
:01:19. > :01:25.story. 30-year-old Paul Kirtland is severely disabled and has the mental
:01:25. > :01:29.capacity of a toddler. I must help wipe his bottom and remained to
:01:29. > :01:35.clean the right-hand side of his teeth, he cannot go anywhere without
:01:35. > :01:43.us. Pol's peasants are now taking the hospital where he was born to
:01:43. > :01:49.court. We know that he showed signs of severe infection when he was born
:01:49. > :01:54.and we know that it was treated with an antibiotic. Paul was ten days old
:01:54. > :01:57.before he was given the appropriate treatment. Why did they wait 30
:01:57. > :02:03.years before taking legal action? Gill Mac we always thought something
:02:03. > :02:07.was wrong with Pol, but we thought we would take him home and love and
:02:07. > :02:12.that would be enough. But we have lost their parents and we realise
:02:12. > :02:16.that love is not enough, when we go, Paul will have nothing. In a
:02:16. > :02:20.statement, Oxford University hospitals NHS trust said they would
:02:20. > :02:25.contest any legal action and do not believe that Paul Kirtland's brain
:02:26. > :02:29.damage was caused by the infection but was the result of an other
:02:29. > :02:33.illness for which he was admitted on to the special care baby unit.
:02:33. > :02:39.Independent experts say that the infection can be serious in those
:02:39. > :02:45.with a weak immune system. situations where to find individuals
:02:45. > :02:50.in special intensive care units, exposure to any bacterium can lead
:02:50. > :02:54.to situations like this. It is down to the individual being too weak.
:02:54. > :02:56.The family want to speak to other families whose children were treated
:02:56. > :03:00.at this unit to CFT also had the infection.
:03:00. > :03:03.Two people have died in an accident on the M40. The Southbound carriage
:03:03. > :03:06.way was closed for more than four hours this afternoon near High
:03:06. > :03:10.Wycombe after a driver and a passenger in the same vehicle were
:03:10. > :03:15.killed. The road has now re-opened but long delays are still expected
:03:15. > :03:18.this evening. Hospitals in Oxfordshire have
:03:18. > :03:21.scrapped their ban on smoking in hospital grounds. Instead there are
:03:21. > :03:24.now plans to build smoking shelters on site and hospitals will, for the
:03:24. > :03:28.first time in six years, allow patients to light up in designated
:03:28. > :03:31.areas. Managers say the ban on smoking didn't work because it was
:03:31. > :03:34.impossible to enforce. But some patients argue it is wrong to let
:03:34. > :03:40.people to damage their health smoking while being treated at the
:03:40. > :03:47.taxpayers expense. Jessica Cooper reports. Smoking is a common sight
:03:47. > :03:51.in hospitals across the country. But they are meant to be smoke-free.
:03:51. > :03:56.Maureen has been fighting cancer for five years. The lymphoma has meant
:03:56. > :04:01.she has made regular visits to hospitals in Oxford. When I go into
:04:01. > :04:04.hospital I am very upset that to get into the hospital one must go
:04:04. > :04:08.through an entrance of smokers. I feel that my rates and should allow
:04:09. > :04:13.me to enter the hospital without going through smokers since I choose
:04:14. > :04:17.to live my life in a non-smoking environment. For years, smoking has
:04:17. > :04:22.been bad at Oxford's NHS hospitals, including the Nuffield Orthopaedic
:04:22. > :04:29.Centre. That has not stop people smoking outside of the main
:04:29. > :04:32.entrances. I do occasionally smoke on the premises. No one is being
:04:33. > :04:36.affected by my smoke. I think that shelters would be a very good idea.
:04:36. > :04:42.I went up there the other day for something and I saw all of these
:04:42. > :04:52.people smoking, who will enforce it? You can't. B-12 shelters being
:04:52. > :04:53.
:04:53. > :04:57.planned go against gay claims. against the guidelines. And this is
:04:57. > :05:05.not a good decision. It sends the wrong message. Smoking is not OK, it
:05:05. > :05:07.is deadly. The NHS trust said it is not practical to stop the patients
:05:07. > :05:09.from smoking survey have been left with little choice but to provide
:05:09. > :05:12.shelters. Earlier I spoke to Angela Harbutt
:05:12. > :05:21.from the organisation Forest that represents smokers. I asked why she
:05:21. > :05:25.believes people should be allowed to smoke around hospitals. People are
:05:25. > :05:28.quite often going out for a smoke and is obviously an appropriate
:05:28. > :05:32.place for people to smoke when they are on hospital grounds, and if you
:05:32. > :05:36.do provide them with smoking shelters it alleviates some of the
:05:36. > :05:40.problems that exist if you try to go through with having a hospital wide
:05:40. > :05:45.ban on the premises. Smoking costs the NHS website Ilion pounds per
:05:45. > :05:51.year, why should hospital facilitate this? Shouldn't they be discouraging
:05:51. > :05:56.this? Smokers contribute in tax around 11 billion, if we are going
:05:56. > :06:02.to play the numbers game, and he wants to talk about how much smokers
:06:02. > :06:06.are paying the eight MRC. This is the same argument that you could
:06:06. > :06:10.argue for people going hell claiming or motivating or entertaining excess
:06:10. > :06:16.drink and alcohol or becoming obese. There are many lifestyle choices
:06:16. > :06:21.that actually cause costs to the NHS and I do not believe in any way that
:06:21. > :06:25.we should be singling out smokers. At the John Radcliffe there are
:06:25. > :06:28.often patients smoking outside of the main entrance. I have seen one
:06:28. > :06:32.with a drip. They are being treated by doctors try to make them better
:06:32. > :06:38.but are going outside damaging their health. There are many things that
:06:38. > :06:41.people do that needs to be treated outside the hospital but that the
:06:42. > :06:45.NHS would disapprove of. I do not want people to be forced into
:06:45. > :06:49.standing outside entrances, I want them to be away from the front
:06:49. > :06:54.entrances where they are not causing congestion. But this is not an
:06:54. > :06:57.argument that is single and wholly about smokers. If you prevent a
:06:57. > :07:01.smoker from smoking to make crazy cigarette but they will not suffer
:07:01. > :07:05.any seriously dangerous withdrawal symptoms like someone who as a
:07:05. > :07:09.heroin addict stopping taking that struck, so shouldn't we just get
:07:09. > :07:14.patients to stop smoking well in hospital? The evidence shows that
:07:14. > :07:17.this would be impossible to enforce. The reason that this decision has
:07:17. > :07:22.been taken is that it is not possible to enforce this rule but
:07:22. > :07:27.unless you're going to have smoking police patrolling the friends, then
:07:27. > :07:31.this is a pragmatic and sensible solution, to put smoking shelters
:07:31. > :07:34.that are close for people to see and close enough to the main entrances
:07:34. > :07:36.us that people will know exactly where to go to smoke. That is the
:07:36. > :07:40.best policy. Thames Valley Police have sent out
:07:40. > :07:44.leaflets asking people to keep an eye out for stolen vehicles as part
:07:44. > :07:47.of a scheme to get the public to help officers track them down. The
:07:47. > :07:50.police have given descriptions of the vehicles, but have only shown
:07:50. > :07:53.part of the number plate, with some details blanked out. When he asked
:07:53. > :07:56.why, officers said it is for data protection, but this may not
:07:56. > :07:59.necessarily be correct, as our reporter Joe Campbell explains.
:07:59. > :08:04.Thames Valley police have been distributing to an online forum that
:08:04. > :08:08.is supposed to get information from the community. Details of cars have
:08:08. > :08:12.been stolen in burglaries, including the make, model and colour and
:08:12. > :08:17.registration. As you can see from these images, not the full
:08:17. > :08:19.registration. Any statement, they said that they send out the minimum
:08:19. > :08:23.amount of data to help investigations and in the case of
:08:23. > :08:27.car registrations we will generally send out the make, model, colour and
:08:27. > :08:33.part registration as these are more likely to be remembered by witnesses
:08:33. > :08:38.who can call us and help with our investigation. This afternoon we
:08:38. > :08:41.went out into the area and put to the test the police's assertion that
:08:41. > :08:46.in actual fact just getting part of registrations was the best way to
:08:46. > :08:51.get members of the public to spot these vehicles. How am I supposed to
:08:51. > :08:55.know what the missing letters are to find that car? It's needs to be a
:08:55. > :09:03.fool thing. We need more details than half of the numberplate. And
:09:03. > :09:08.you have too no cars, really. unscientific survey there today, but
:09:08. > :09:13.you can find out a lot about the car from the full registration. But you
:09:13. > :09:18.cannot find out who is the order, to do that you must approach the DVLA.
:09:18. > :09:22.All of the details are given to you by the police -- if of the details
:09:22. > :09:27.are given to you then you do that. On this form you would have to set
:09:27. > :09:30.out various reasons. If you were involved in an accident you would
:09:30. > :09:36.have to provide a police reference number or insurance number. The
:09:36. > :09:38.police are more worried that these details could be used by the wrong
:09:38. > :09:42.people to find out who owns certain cars.
:09:42. > :09:45.Aylesbury town centre is to be redeveloped to make it a centre for
:09:45. > :09:48.entertainment and art. There are plans for more shops and restaurants
:09:48. > :09:52.as well as new housing. The aim is to encourage more people to visit
:09:52. > :09:55.the area and build on the local success of the paralympic games.