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Unlawfully killed - the VC hero who died on the front line in | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
Afghanistan. He was the bravest of soldiers and the best of men. | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
and the rest of today's top stories now with Janine. | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
Back in the hands of the NHS - the Stevenage Surgicentre criticise | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
after patients died and records were lost. | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
Police offer a �10,000 reward to help catch this great-grandfather's | :00:46. | :00:56. | |
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killers. And the steam train halted Good evening and welcome. There were | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
emotional scenes today at an inquest for a young soldier from | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
Northamptonshire posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for | :01:06. | :01:16. | |
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bravery. Lance Corporal James Ashworth from Corby died in | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
Afghanistan last June. Grenade he was about to probe detonated when it | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
was hit by a sniper's bullet. The coroner ruled that he was unlawfully | :01:25. | :01:30. | |
killed. Said to be destined for great things in the Army, | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
23-year-old Lance Corporal James Ashworth died in Afghanistan trying | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
to protect his friends. They turned out in their hundreds | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
for his funeral in Corby and today his family, including his mother and | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
brother, came to Kettering for answers. The evidence took them back | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
to last June. Lance Corporal Webb was in a group flown in to try and | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
kill or capture a group of enemy snipers. -- Lance Corporal James | :01:57. | :02:03. | |
Ashworth. Today, the soldiers he was with were present, including a Royal | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
Marine seen here in a suit. The court heard evidence from a soldier | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
who spoke the language and off the sniper treatment if he surrendered. | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
He said that from the man's response he believed him to be high on drugs | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
and he knew that they would have to fight on. James selflessly | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
volunteered to through the only grenade left into the doorway. To do | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
this, he crawled on his stomach with bullets flying around him on a low | :02:29. | :02:36. | |
wall, watched by a young soldier closest to the camera. That soldier | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
said he had seen enemy fire nearby and shouted to James Ashworth to | :02:39. | :02:45. | |
come back. He said he shouted but he didn't move. The coroner reported | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
that as James was about to throw the grenade, he received a single | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
gunshot which knocked into the ground and caused it detonate. | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
Outside court his mother, in tears for much of the inquest, paid | :02:56. | :03:04. | |
tribute. James Pattinson a doing a job he loved. At times it was a hard | :03:04. | :03:14. | |
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job. -- James passed away doing a job he loved. His commitment served | :03:14. | :03:20. | |
as an example to us all. He thought of his friends, put others first and | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
refused to give up. It was one of his family's proudest moments to | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
collect his posthumous Victoria Cross. Lance Corporal James Ashworth | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
will always be remembered as one of the very few to receive it. | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
A privately run hospital which was heavily criticised following the | :03:36. | :03:42. | |
deaths of three patients has been bought by the NHS for �53 million. | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
The Lister Surgicentre in Stevenage was run by an arm of the building | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
company Carillion. But has been dogged by problems from the start. | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
In April last year, inspectors failed the Surgicentre in four out | :03:53. | :03:59. | |
of five areas. In August 2012, GPs were told not to refer patients to | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
the eye department there because of worrying waiting times. In February | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
this year, the most senior medical examiner in the country criticised | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
the hospital for the deaths of three patients after routine surgery. And | :04:12. | :04:21. | |
in June, work began to suspend the company's licence. | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
Today's announcement is a victory for Michael Mansi. He has been | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
fighting tirelessly for change at the Surgicentre since his sister | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
died aged 86. She was admit it for a routine knee operation but died of | :04:33. | :04:39. | |
bronchial pneumonia. The facility is staffed by NHS doctors and nurses | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
and treats NHS patients at it was run by a private company owned by | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
the building firm Carillion. delighted because it's in the care | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
of the right people. I think they will be having the correct amount of | :04:53. | :04:59. | |
nursing staff and the cost will not be paramount. The NHS don't have to | :05:00. | :05:07. | |
make a profit and I feel happy that people who are going to the new | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
centre, whatever they call it, we'll go in and not come out in a box | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
because of lack of care. Since it opened, the �50 million facility was | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
dogged by criticism. Waiting list targets were not being met, | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
patients' files were lost and three people died following routine | :05:24. | :05:30. | |
surgery. Soon GPs were advised not to refer patients for eye operations | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
or joint replacements and a sick procedures were cancelled. Now the | :05:34. | :05:40. | |
centre has been taken over by the NHS for �53 million. In a statement | :05:40. | :05:50. | |
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how the transfer should proceed. The NHS says its priority is to ensure | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
patient care is not affected by the change. | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
The MP for Stevenage has been campaigning for the NHS to take over | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
the hospital for 18 months. He said he's delighted by the news and | :06:18. | :06:24. | |
insists it's worth the �53 million of taxpayers' money. Over the last | :06:24. | :06:31. | |
18 months, we've had three patients who died, 8500 patient records lost | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
and there have been huge problems and you have covered the story on a | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
number of occasions. People are very unhappy with the service so we did | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
have to step in. I'm delighted that we've managed to take control of the | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
situation. Not every patient has been unhappy with the service at the | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
Surgicentre. They feel you are pursuing some kind of personal | :06:51. | :06:58. | |
vendetta against private health care. Well, I think effectively, | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
Carillion are builders, building roads, schools and hospitals, and | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
these people are in charge of managing the facility. The NHS staff | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
are the people providing the information about what's been going | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
on. We have had a whole litany of disasters and problems. I get | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
complaints every single day so I understand that some patients have | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
had a positive experience. I'm delighted for them but I wish every | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
single patient could have a positive experience. NHS managers are going | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
to take over - where you going to get them from? The local hospital | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
trust are going to manage the facility. These type of operations | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
are undertaken by the hospital until the facility is developed and opened | :07:41. | :07:48. | |
so it will be people who are in charge of the facility. -- people | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
who were in charge of the facility some years ago. They presumably have | :07:53. | :07:59. | |
a job elsewhere so they will be taken from, Willie? Not at all. We | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
have to say thank you to the doctors because if it wasn't for their | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
bravery in stopping referring their patients to the facility because it | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
wasn't safe, we wouldn't have been able to move forward with the | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
campaign. This has nothing to do with private health versus public | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
health. I've said a number of times you can't say public schools or | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
private are bad. At about public safety. | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
We asked Carillion about the takeover. They wouldn't be | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
interviewed but in a statement confirmed the deal was going ahead | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
but that the transfer date hadn't yet been set. The managing director | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
said patients currently receiving treatment at the Surgicentre should | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
continue to attend appointments in the usual way, and that a | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
consultation process has started to explain the impact of the changes to | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
staff. A �10,000 reward has been offered by | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
police investigating the murder of a great grandfather from Kempston. | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
Sharif Demirsay was stabbed to death on the doorstep of his home in May. | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
Today his granddaughter made an emotional appeal for information | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
which could help catch her grandfather's killers. Stuart | :08:55. | :09:01. | |
Ratcliffe reports. Two and a half months on, my family | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
and I are still very much affected. Not having caught the individuals | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
responsible, it seems to be getting a lot harder. Sharif Demirsay was | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
described today as a loving great grandad and a popular friend and | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
neighbour. On the night of May 14, he opened his door to three men who | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
began stabbing him before pushing him inside the house and dumping his | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
body in the doorway of his own bedroom. Sharif was stabbed more | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
than ten times and while he lay here dying, his murder is made off with a | :09:31. | :09:38. | |
small amount of cash and some jewellery. -- murderers. Today his | :09:38. | :09:44. | |
granddaughter spoke about the effect it has had on her and her family. | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
Its constant reminders. When you have spare time and you're sitting, | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
you're thinking of everything that's happened. You don't escape it. It's | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
even harder knowing that these people are out there and they're | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
living their lives and our lives in some respects have been taken away | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
from us because we can't rest easy, as these people are still out | :10:06. | :10:12. | |
there. In June, Beds police released CCTV images of three possible | :10:12. | :10:18. | |
suspects are approaching the house. Three minutes later, they ran away. | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
Because of the circumstances of the offence at the type of people we're | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
dealing with - they're quite young from all accounts - they might have | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
thought to people. We've got jewellery that has been sold | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
somewhere, no doubt, and they've had possession of that and the money and | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
I feel sure someone locally knows who that was and who those people | :10:37. | :10:44. | |
are. This has been a frustrating enquiry for Bedfordshire police but | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
the force is hoping the offer of a �10,000 reward will finally | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
encourage someone to come forward with that much-needed breakthrough. | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
A Milton Keynes rail company has gone into administration, putting | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
250 jobs at risk. A total of 500 workers repair and refurbish trains | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
at Railcare in Wolverton and in Glasgow. The RMT union is calling on | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
the government to step in to help with what they're calling a a | :11:07. | :11:17. | |
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short-term cash flow crisis. It's been eight years in the | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
planning and more than a year in the construction - but it will be next | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
spring before the new Center Parcs in Bedfordshire is open for | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
business. This week our reporter Emma Baugh went behind the scenes of | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
the holiday park to see how the development is taking shape. | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
Week 62 of the �252 million build. It's been eight years is as we heard | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
it was coming, attracting anger from some over whether the local area | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
will cope. The company's head insists it will. We've done our | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
surveys over many years in terms of traffic volumes and traffic flows. | :11:49. | :11:55. | |
We don't have any concerns about any problems in that respect. We've | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
built to new roundabouts - one at the top end of the site and one | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
currently under construction - and that will ease the traffic flows | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
immensely. So I don't anticipate any real problems. The company says the | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
real boost to the area is through jobs. Recruitment is ongoing and | :12:11. | :12:18. | |
training starts next month. When it opens, 1500 people will be working | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
here - almost 9500 people have already searched the company's jobs | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
website and its hope when they are employed, 75% of them will come from | :12:27. | :12:33. | |
the local area. -- it is hoped. There is a massive range of | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
employment opportunities at company-macro. There is a whole | :12:36. | :12:43. | |
range. We're not seasonal. This is 355 days a year so those jobs are | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
all permanent. The village will have more than 600 lodges in its first | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
phase and another 70 coming later. It's been welcomed by some living | :12:50. | :12:56. | |
locally. Well if it's going to create more jobs for the region then | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
that's fine by me. I'm sure a lot of other people think the same. It'll | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
bring a lot of work into the area and I know my husband has been | :13:05. | :13:11. | |
looking himself, cos he's recently retired so it's a great idea, I | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
think. It'll affect everybody with the traffic once it does start. Only | :13:16. | :13:23. | |
time will tell but I think it's good. It's due to open next spring. | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
The roads will be tested and the actual number of jobs finally | :13:26. | :13:36. | |
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realised. Environment experts have been called | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
in to increase oxygen levels in the River Cam in Cambridge, after more | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
than 300 fish were found dead in the water. The Environment Agency said | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
the recent hot weather may have caused the problems as warm water | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
holds less dissolved oxygen. People are being asked not to use the river | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
between Baits Bite Lock and Upware while the work, which involves | :13:58. | :14:01. |