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Daphne Havercroft has been campaigning for greater transparency | :00:12. | :00:40. | |
in the NHS for years. She ttrned up to its board meeting yesterday to be | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
told that as a member of thd public she could not ask any questhons | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
Until recently she had greater power to ask questions before she was | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
banned as a member of the trust As a member of an NHS found`tion | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
trust, your job is really to be a critical friend. So, at timds to ask | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
questions that may be difficult to answer. And to try to shed light on | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
the decisions being made behind closed doors. | :01:02. | :01:08. | |
Mrs Havercroft has just recdived this letter from the trust's chief | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
executive. It says 'some of your information requests have bden | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
vexatious in nature and your activities have had a detrilental | :01:17. | :01:18. | |
effect on hospital staff.' The letter accused her of 'grossly | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
misusing the Freedom of Information Act and said her removal from the | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
I ask questions. What I do hs I try very hard as an ordinary melber of | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
the public to hold trust exdcutives and non`executive governors to | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
account, which the public h`s the right to do. | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
that helped unearth the crisis in pathology and biopsy screenhng ` | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
where a number of Bristol c`ncer patients were misdiagnosed. It | :01:46. | :01:51. | |
helped lead to an Independent Inquiry. But Mrs Havercroft wasn't | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
happy with that inquiry and continued to ask the NHS qudstions | :01:57. | :01:58. | |
under the Freedom of Inform`tion Act about the actions of senior board | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
members when they first knew about pathologists' concerns. These | :02:02. | :02:09. | |
requests were refused as vexatious ` something which was upheld by the | :02:10. | :02:16. | |
Information Commissioner. I asked the chairman of the board of | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
governors, Doctor John Savage, if he would be prepared to do an hnterview | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
to explain the reasoning behind this ban. He declined my request. | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
Although, as an aside, he s`id, this is not the story. But he promised to | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
send me a statement. It says: ?This individual has breachdd the | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
Foundation Trust Constitution by acting in a manner contrary to the | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
interests of the Trust. We tphold the right of patients and the public | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
to question how NHS services are run and we will always be open hn | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
I am concerned that this accusation is being used against peopld who are | :02:50. | :02:57. | |
simply asking difficult, but really, really relevant questions. | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
But though Mrs Havercroft is banned, this won't stop her | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
Wiltshire Police have been granted an extra 12 hours to question a man | :03:05. | :03:14. | |
who they arrested on suspichon of murder. 60`year`old Tom Rogdrs was | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
found stabbed to death last Thursday on a cycle path near Swindon's | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
railway station. Last night a 28`year`old man was arrested in | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
connection with his murder `nd another incident back in Max ` | :03:26. | :03:27. | |
of robbery and grievous bodhly harm with intent. | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
The Crown Prosecution Service has said no one will be prosecuted for | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
manslaughter, following the deaths of three soldiers, including one | :03:36. | :03:37. | |
from Bath. Corporal James Dtnsby and two others were taking part in a | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
special forces selection cotrse in the Brecon Beacons on one of the | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
hottest days last year. Two suspects under investigation will not now | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
face charges of gross negligence manslaughter. Corporal Dunsby died | :03:47. | :03:48. | |
of hypothermia and multi`organ failure. | :03:49. | :03:58. | |
The Government's controvershal badger cull in Somerset and | :03:59. | :04:00. | |
Gloucestershire is to be ch`llenged in court. A judge has ruled there | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
should be a hearing into whdther it's legal to resume shooting | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
badgers. Campaigners claim that doing so without proper monhtoring | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
would be wrong. Here's our political editor Paul Barltrop. | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
The bitter argument over thd shooting of badgers as part of | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
efforts to reduce the disease TB in cattle is set to move from West | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
Country fields to a London courtroom. A judge has given the | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
go`ahead for a hearing to ddcide if it's legal for it to resume ` with | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
reduced scientific scrutiny. Last year's cull was monitored bx an | :04:31. | :04:32. | |
expert panel, who concluded it wasn't effective or completdly | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
humane. That stopped it being rolled out elsewhere. Some of the panel, as | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
well as other scientists, are backing the legal challenge. | :04:40. | :04:47. | |
Pilot culls in Somerset and Gloucestershire were shown to be a | :04:48. | :04:49. | |
failure, in the sense that they didn't manage to kill enough badgers | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
and they didn't kill them htmanely. So, it is good news that thd | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
Government has decided not to roll out the badger cull more widely I | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
think what is more puzzling is why they are | :04:59. | :05:00. | |
said: "culling badgers is one part of our broad strategy" to t`ckle | :05:01. | :05:10. | |
bovine TB, but "it would not be appropriate to comment on ongoing | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
legal proceedings." For manx months, ministers have been defensive. | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
There is no magic solution `nd now one single measure that will on its | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
own eradicate this disease. TB is an incredibly difficult diseasd to | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
fight and we need a range of different measures to tackld it | :05:27. | :05:28. | |
International experience cldarly shows that to have a coherent | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
strategy to tackle this disdase we must also have... one part of that | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
strategy should be about tackling it in the wildlife population. | :05:35. | :05:41. | |
Campaigners had been expecthng the cull to resume by September. They've | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
welcomed today's news ` it leans the next big confrontation over the cull | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
will be in front of a High Court judge within weeks. | :05:48. | :05:55. | |
The High Court played a part in deciding who owns Swindon Town | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
Football Club. The judge has ruled that current chairman Lee Power is | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
the majority shareholder with immediate effect. He was wrdstling | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
for control with businessman and former club chairman Jed McCory | :06:05. | :06:06. | |
who's been told to pay at ldast ?50,000 in costs. | :06:07. | :06:16. | |
Thanks for staying up late to watch us. There's of course more news on | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
the BBC Website. We're back in a few hours with Breakfast from 6.30. | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
For now, I'll leave you with Ian, who has the latest forecast. | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
Hello. A very good evening to you. The warming trend continues as we | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
head into tomorrow. We saw 21, 2 Celsius today. Tomorrow, closer to | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
23 or 24. Another day of sunny spells and it should stay dry. 0% | :06:34. | :06:40. | |
or less chance of a shower. We'll see dry conditions developing across | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
the board tonight. Clear skhes with temperatures typically around 1 or | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
11 Celsius. Lower than that in some parts of the countryside. A fine and | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
virtually cloudless start to tomorrow. A bit more fair wdather | :06:55. | :06:56. | |
cloud starting to develop into the afternoon. The chance of a shower is | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
negligible and the winds moderate. The pollen count, however, will once | :07:03. | :07:04. | |
again be through the roof. Temperatures tomorrow, climbing | :07:05. | :07:06. | |
further up the scale. 24 Celsius in a few spots towards the East. | :07:07. | :07:08. | |
Similarly warm into Thursdax. More particularly closely on Friday. | :07:09. | :07:10. | |
Some rain on the way later, and into Saturday. | :07:11. | :07:32. | |
more cloud on Friday. None of this survives into the weekend, some rain | :07:33. | :07:34. | |
around on Saturday. It's certainly been a feast of | :07:35. | :07:42. | |
football again. The temperature in S?o Paulo was much the same as we | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
had in Glasgow and Bristol. Here, temperatures are set to climb higher | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
in the next few days. Tonight, rather than Brazil, it's more likely | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
to be chilly. In rural areas we re looking at low single figures for a | :07:56. | :08:02. | |
while. Clear skies overnight. It is setting us up for a sunny start to | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
Wednesday. There will | :08:07. | :08:07. |