:00:00. > :00:13.extended interview with her. But now on BBC One, it's time for the
:00:14. > :00:20.And now the news for the East Midlands, I'm Dominic Heale.
:00:21. > :00:24.The former partner of a pregnant woman killed by a mentally ill man
:00:25. > :00:27.says he believes her death could have been prevented. Robert Barlow's
:00:28. > :00:30.comments follow the publication of a Serious Case Review into the deaths
:00:31. > :00:38.of Rachael Slack and her young son, who were killed in their Derbyshire
:00:39. > :00:41.cottage. On June two, 2010, police called to this cottage in Holbrooke
:00:42. > :00:45.in Derbyshire found inside the stabbed bodies of Rachael Slack and
:00:46. > :00:48.her young son, Auden and that of Andrew Cairns, Auden's father. An
:00:49. > :00:50.inquest concluded last year that Cairns, who had mental health
:00:51. > :00:58.problems, had killed Auden then Rachael, then himself. A report
:00:59. > :01:01.published today by the Derbyshire Safeguarding Children Board says all
:01:02. > :01:04.three deaths were unpredictable and unpreventable. But Rachael's partner
:01:05. > :01:08.at the time of the killings said the deaths were preventable. He says the
:01:09. > :01:12.police should have told Rachael she was specifically at high risk of
:01:13. > :01:16.being killed by Andrew. If you get a phone call from the
:01:17. > :01:19.police and they see that your partner is at high risk of homicide,
:01:20. > :01:23.it definitely would make you sit up and take notice of what you have
:01:24. > :01:26.then got to do. A victim at high risk, and therefore
:01:27. > :01:29.at high risk of homicide, we make that absolutely explicit. We go
:01:30. > :01:33.through a protective form with them, and look at what measures they can
:01:34. > :01:39.adopt and we can adopt with them. And they sign that to say that they
:01:40. > :01:42.understand. The health service, criticised for
:01:43. > :01:44.concentrating on Cairns and not those close to him, has also made
:01:45. > :01:47.changes. They have been improved through the
:01:48. > :01:50.adoption of a process called Think Family, which allows the wider
:01:51. > :01:53.understanding of the family and the child around an individual.
:01:54. > :01:56.The police, the health service and the Safeguarding Children Board all
:01:57. > :02:05.say lessons have been learnt since the tragedy.
:02:06. > :02:10.Two of our emergency services could move in together to save costs. The
:02:11. > :02:13.police force and Fire Service in Derbyshire are looking at the
:02:14. > :02:17.possibility of having a new shared headquarters. It would be built on
:02:18. > :02:25.the site of the current police HQ in Ripley.
:02:26. > :02:28.This is Derbyshire Police Headquarters but could it soon also
:02:29. > :02:32.be home to Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service? That's the plan said
:02:33. > :02:37.to be at a very early stage and it would need planning permission. The
:02:38. > :02:40.police want to replace two buildings on the site and Derbyshire Fire
:02:41. > :02:46.Service headquarters are also said to be outdated. That would be sold
:02:47. > :02:57.off, as part of the plan. The man in charge of the police purse strings
:02:58. > :03:01.says it is a matter of good timing. Both of us have rather old
:03:02. > :03:09.headquarters buildings that will either need a lot of money spent on
:03:10. > :03:13.them or would need to be replaced. It was quite fortunate that both of
:03:14. > :03:16.us had a similar need at the same time.
:03:17. > :03:20.Both the police and fire need to make savings. The FBU will be hoping
:03:21. > :03:24.that the number of fire stations proposed to be closed may be
:03:25. > :03:27.reduced. There is concern that this could lead to the loss of
:03:28. > :03:30.background, administrative job staff. We could have a new joint
:03:31. > :03:39.Police and Fire headquarters here within three years.
:03:40. > :03:42.140,000 patients in Nottingham failed to show up for their GP
:03:43. > :03:45.appointments or at hospital outpatient clinics last year. The
:03:46. > :03:48.problem of absentee patients is now the focus of a big campaign in the
:03:49. > :04:03.city. Our Health Correspondent Rob Sissons reports.
:04:04. > :04:15.This baby has a bad chest. This winter the doctors are busy at this
:04:16. > :04:21.practice. But not everyone shows up. If people cannot make it then we
:04:22. > :04:27.should be able to cancel it so that somebody else who needs it can get
:04:28. > :04:34.an appointment. People are cancelling appointments when they
:04:35. > :04:40.don't need to. A survey revealed that the scale of
:04:41. > :04:45.missed appointments varies and ranges from one in a hundred at one
:04:46. > :04:52.GP practice to one in five not showing up at another smaller one.
:04:53. > :04:59.Here, the manager told me they are trying to improve things by text in
:05:00. > :05:04.patients. We're been working at this for a
:05:05. > :05:09.considerable time now. Our percentage is fairly low, at around
:05:10. > :05:18.5%. If you costed this staffing for
:05:19. > :05:27.missed appointments, it is five and a half million pounds per year. That
:05:28. > :05:35.could pay for 261 nurses. It could also pay for MRI scanners.
:05:36. > :05:38.A star Nottingham rugby player, who was forced to retire because of a
:05:39. > :05:41.head injury, is supporting a campaign to get the sport to take
:05:42. > :05:44.concussion more seriously. New figures have revealed that on
:05:45. > :05:47.average in professional rugby there's a concussion injury in every
:05:48. > :05:51.six games. In the past Nottingham's David Jackson played on even after
:05:52. > :05:56.being knocked out. Now the risks of playing at all are too high.
:05:57. > :05:59.Luke Griggs is from Headway ` the brain injury association. I asked
:06:00. > :06:02.Luke if things are changing in rugby.
:06:03. > :06:05.There is certainly a large momentum building and people are becoming
:06:06. > :06:08.aware of the risks of concussion, and more importantly how to spot it
:06:09. > :06:12.when people are concussed and that is really good. It is important that
:06:13. > :06:39.players like David Jackson come out and talk about things like this.
:06:40. > :06:54.We are ending January on a very soggy note. An unusual sight today,
:06:55. > :06:58.some of us had wintry showers. Those showers will start to clear away as
:06:59. > :07:06.we go through the night. It will be a cloudy night. We may see a touch
:07:07. > :07:13.of frost. A chilly, cold start tomorrow. Then it all changes as the
:07:14. > :07:17.Reagan pushes through from the West. `` as the rain pushes through from
:07:18. > :07:41.the West. Thank you. Goodbye. very good night.
:07:42. > :07:47.Good evening. As we have seen, it has been an exceptionally wet month
:07:48. > :07:51.and it is not even over yet. The final day of January promises even
:07:52. > :07:57.more heavy rain and that is not the only hazard. There could be some
:07:58. > :08:02.snow and strong winds over the next 48 hours. We have seen too many of
:08:03. > :08:08.these weather systems steaming in from the Atlantic. It is not with
:08:09. > :08:14.this yet, however. Some snow over the hills in northern England and
:08:15. > :08:20.eastern Scotland. Some mist and fog patches in the south. Many of us
:08:21. > :08:23.will start Friday Drive, however the rain is on its way and it will
:08:24. > :08:24.gradually spread its