01/08/2013 BBC Oxford News

Tonight: Suing a hospital trust over there some's disability. Paul

Kirkland's family says an infection he packed up as ABB 30 years ago

means that the needs constant care. In the controversial U-turn over

smoking. Why the health trust plans to build shelters for smokers to

stand on. My opinion is, give us a shelter, let us have a cigarette.

And later on, straight from the horses mouth. How did our weather

presenter get on in her glorious The family of a disabled man are

taking Oxford's biggest hospital to court - claiming he and other

children suffered brain damage as a result of negligence 30 years ago.

Paul Kirtland's family say his condition was caused by an infection

contracted at birth in the Special Care Baby Unit at the John

Radcliffe. The hospital Trust denies any liability. Angela Walker has the

story. 30-year-old Paul Kirtland is severely disabled and has the mental

capacity of a toddler. I must help wipe his bottom and remained to

clean the right-hand side of his teeth, he cannot go anywhere without

us. Pol's peasants are now taking the hospital where he was born to

court. We know that he showed signs of severe infection when he was born

and we know that it was treated with an antibiotic. Paul was ten days old

before he was given the appropriate treatment. Why did they wait 30

years before taking legal action? Gill Mac we always thought something

was wrong with Pol, but we thought we would take him home and love and

that would be enough. But we have lost their parents and we realise

that love is not enough, when we go, Paul will have nothing. In a

statement, Oxford University hospitals NHS trust said they would

contest any legal action and do not believe that Paul Kirtland's brain

damage was caused by the infection but was the result of an other

illness for which he was admitted on to the special care baby unit.

Independent experts say that the infection can be serious in those

with a weak immune system. situations where to find individuals

in special intensive care units, exposure to any bacterium can lead

to situations like this. It is down to the individual being too weak.

The family want to speak to other families whose children were treated

at this unit to CFT also had the infection.

Two people have died in an accident on the M40. The Southbound carriage

way was closed for more than four hours this afternoon near High

Wycombe after a driver and a passenger in the same vehicle were

killed. The road has now re-opened but long delays are still expected

this evening. Hospitals in Oxfordshire have

scrapped their ban on smoking in hospital grounds. Instead there are

now plans to build smoking shelters on site and hospitals will, for the

first time in six years, allow patients to light up in designated

areas. Managers say the ban on smoking didn't work because it was

impossible to enforce. But some patients argue it is wrong to let

people to damage their health smoking while being treated at the

taxpayers expense. Jessica Cooper reports. Smoking is a common sight

in hospitals across the country. But they are meant to be smoke-free.

Maureen has been fighting cancer for five years. The lymphoma has meant

she has made regular visits to hospitals in Oxford. When I go into

hospital I am very upset that to get into the hospital one must go

through an entrance of smokers. I feel that my rates and should allow

me to enter the hospital without going through smokers since I choose

to live my life in a non-smoking environment. For years, smoking has

been bad at Oxford's NHS hospitals, including the Nuffield Orthopaedic

Centre. That has not stop people smoking outside of the main

entrances. I do occasionally smoke on the premises. No one is being

affected by my smoke. I think that shelters would be a very good idea.

I went up there the other day for something and I saw all of these

people smoking, who will enforce it? You can't. B-12 shelters being

planned go against gay claims. against the guidelines. And this is

not a good decision. It sends the wrong message. Smoking is not OK, it

is deadly. The NHS trust said it is not practical to stop the patients

from smoking survey have been left with little choice but to provide

shelters. Earlier I spoke to Angela Harbutt

from the organisation Forest that represents smokers. I asked why she

believes people should be allowed to smoke around hospitals. People are

quite often going out for a smoke and is obviously an appropriate

place for people to smoke when they are on hospital grounds, and if you

do provide them with smoking shelters it alleviates some of the

problems that exist if you try to go through with having a hospital wide

ban on the premises. Smoking costs the NHS website Ilion pounds per

year, why should hospital facilitate this? Shouldn't they be discouraging

this? Smokers contribute in tax around 11 billion, if we are going

to play the numbers game, and he wants to talk about how much smokers

are paying the eight MRC. This is the same argument that you could

argue for people going hell claiming or motivating or entertaining excess

drink and alcohol or becoming obese. There are many lifestyle choices

that actually cause costs to the NHS and I do not believe in any way that

we should be singling out smokers. At the John Radcliffe there are

often patients smoking outside of the main entrance. I have seen one

with a drip. They are being treated by doctors try to make them better

but are going outside damaging their health. There are many things that

people do that needs to be treated outside the hospital but that the

NHS would disapprove of. I do not want people to be forced into

standing outside entrances, I want them to be away from the front

entrances where they are not causing congestion. But this is not an

argument that is single and wholly about smokers. If you prevent a

smoker from smoking to make crazy cigarette but they will not suffer

any seriously dangerous withdrawal symptoms like someone who as a

heroin addict stopping taking that struck, so shouldn't we just get

patients to stop smoking well in hospital? The evidence shows that

this would be impossible to enforce. The reason that this decision has

been taken is that it is not possible to enforce this rule but

unless you're going to have smoking police patrolling the friends, then

this is a pragmatic and sensible solution, to put smoking shelters

that are close for people to see and close enough to the main entrances

us that people will know exactly where to go to smoke. That is the

best policy. Thames Valley Police have sent out

leaflets asking people to keep an eye out for stolen vehicles as part

of a scheme to get the public to help officers track them down. The

police have given descriptions of the vehicles, but have only shown

part of the number plate, with some details blanked out. When he asked

why, officers said it is for data protection, but this may not

necessarily be correct, as our reporter Joe Campbell explains.

Thames Valley police have been distributing to an online forum that

is supposed to get information from the community. Details of cars have

been stolen in burglaries, including the make, model and colour and

registration. As you can see from these images, not the full

registration. Any statement, they said that they send out the minimum

amount of data to help investigations and in the case of

car registrations we will generally send out the make, model, colour and

part registration as these are more likely to be remembered by witnesses

who can call us and help with our investigation. This afternoon we

went out into the area and put to the test the police's assertion that

in actual fact just getting part of registrations was the best way to

get members of the public to spot these vehicles. How am I supposed to

know what the missing letters are to find that car? It's needs to be a

fool thing. We need more details than half of the numberplate. And

you have too no cars, really. unscientific survey there today, but

you can find out a lot about the car from the full registration. But you

cannot find out who is the order, to do that you must approach the DVLA.

All of the details are given to you by the police -- if of the details

are given to you then you do that. On this form you would have to set

out various reasons. If you were involved in an accident you would

have to provide a police reference number or insurance number. The

police are more worried that these details could be used by the wrong

people to find out who owns certain cars.

Aylesbury town centre is to be redeveloped to make it a centre for

entertainment and art. There are plans for more shops and restaurants

as well as new housing. The aim is to encourage more people to visit

the area and build on the local success of the paralympic games.