27/06/2014 Look East - West

That's all from the BBC News at Six, so it's goodbye from me

McMahon was killed for the ?20 in his wallet. One man admits his

murder and another The hospital scientists who say they

will not sign We will be cutting out as

Commonwealth Games athletes get their outfits. And I'm at

Glastonbury. It is daunting to be playing with Dolly Parton!

It's been revealed today th`t one man has admitted murdering Jamie

McMahon who was killed last October in a Northampton churchyard.

The admission came as anothdr man, Michael Francis, went

The court was told Mr McMahon was killed for the ?20 he had

Mike Cartwright was in court and joins us now.

The two men were on a mission, the court was told. A mission to rob and

steal. One man has pleaded guilty and another is on trial, but the

prosecution say that both are guilty of robbery and murder. They were

acting together. It was a vhcious attack. Their victim was repeatedly

kicked, punched and trodden on and left for dead. They walked `way as

if nothing had happened, thd court was told. He had been drinkhng and

was on his own. He was an e`sy target. Just what they were looking

for, the court was told. Within minutes of leaving this takdaway,

Jamie McMahon was robbed and killed by two men. In it together, a peer

or venture. This is the churchyard where his body was found. Bx one man

or the other, or both, and left facedown. CCTV showed their

demeanour afterwords, relaxdd and unbothered. Michael Francis was seen

to show dropping something hnto a bin. It was his wallet spent the

money on crisps, juice and cigarettes. His phone was briefly

activated at 3:23am. Jamie LcMahon lost his life for his wallet and a

mobile phone sold to a drug dealer for ?10. He was described as an

amazing person in court. A friend described them as one in a lillion,

someone who makes people happy all of the time. Friends and falily had

to sit through harrowing evhdence today. This was just a man who had

had a few drinks and was on a night out, but the prosecution saxing he

was in the wrong place at the right time `` run time.

The family of a man from Stdvenage who saw medication, food

and water withdrawn from hil for a week before he died have welcomed

The old system, known as the Liverpool Care Pathway,

was scrapped after concerns that it was being used inappropriatdly.

Now hospitals must consult patients and their families more closely

When Bob Gould fell and fractured his skull at home in Steven`ge last

year, he was taken to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge.

The 69`year`old was put on life support but his condition

didn't improve so he was put on the Liverpool Care Pathw`y.

Medication, food and fluid were stopped, but it

An inquest later found that it was in his best interests,

but his family said that thdy were not consulted and were distressed

My dad was clutching at the air and making noises like a wounded animal.

Everything had been stripped from him.

The Liverpool Care Pathway was developed in the late 1990s and

Its aim was to avoid endless treatment and unnecessary

Last summer, an independent review found out that it was not always

being properly applied and recommended it should be scrapped.

They thought it was okay, for junior doctors particul`rly

to put people on the Liverpool Care Pathway in the middle of thd night,

at weekends and bank holidaxs with no senior people involved.

Instead, new guidelines havd been published on how to care for those

The focus is on providing c`re tailored to each individual patient

and, in particular, supporting them to eat or drink

Taking decisions in accordance with the patient's needs and wishes

and those of their loved onds and reviewing those decisions rdgularly

Bob Gould's family welcomed the new approach.

My dad would have had a dignified death.

It's a shame it was not in place when my dad passed away last year.

We think it will be good for other families and

the patient care will be improved while on the end`of`life care plan.

The guidance aims to help p`tients and relatives know what to dxpect

and for doctors to ensure a person's final hours are as dignified

Well, earlier I spoke to the health minister, Norman Lamb,

about the new end of life priorities and asked him how

the Liverpool Care pathway had gone wrong in cases like Bob Gould's

I think it became a tick box exercise started with

But in too many places, nurses, perhaps with insufficient training,

applying, in a dogmatic way, a process that many families thought

was just an inexorable path towards death, even if the individu`l's

Are you convinced that families like Bob Gould's are going to

benefit from these new priorities that are about to come in?

I hope very much that familhes like that are going to see a difference.

You can never guarantee that there won't be failures of care

across the whole of the NHS, but the Care Quality Commission will hold

Baroness Neuberger did point out in her report that, with the Lhverpool

Care Pathway, junior doctors were making these major decisions.

There were all sorts of practices that were revealed as a restlt of

Baroness Neuberger's report, which are just completely unacceptable,

including the horror of famhlies being told that they could not give

a drink of water or a cup of tea to a loved one who w`s

in the final stages of their lives, even if they were gasping.

I think we have the chance now of having higher standards of end

As a Lib Dem minister in this Government, I am drhven by

the need to ensure that people at the end of life have good qtality,

compassionate care, and I think we have a chance of achieving ht.

That's all very laudable, Mr Lamb, but is this going to put more

pressure on an already stretched NHS?

Any suggestion that any pathent s life was terminated prematurely

We must always be about dignified death

and compassionate care and hncluding the family in decision`making.

As much as possible, we want to make sure that

the individual is where thex want to be at the end of their life.

Most people don't want to bd in hospital,

they want to be at home with their loved ones, and we should rdspect

A man from Cambridge who kidnapped the women he met online has been

jailed for 15 years. Alex W`llace assaulted the victim before holding

a crossbow to her neck. He threatened her family as shd did not

give them money. The Government has announced it s

putting up more than ?14 million to kickstart housing development to

the east of Kettering. The money will pay

for road development, sewerage works and other site

preparation for 1750 homes of a proposed 5500 home development,

business and energy park. Bio`medical staff at Northalpton

General Hospital have been told not to go to work, in a dispute

over changes to their contr`cts Members of the union Unite had

planned a work to rule over But hospital managers banned them

from entering the building The hospital says patient

care won't be affected. This is not a strike, they say,

but a lockout. Outside Northampton General,

dozens of biomedical staff say they have been banned

from entering the hospital. We've been told not to come

into the premises at all. I turned up for work this morning

fully prepared to do my job and I I am absolutely disgusted

that has come to this. There is no need

for it to get to this stage. The hospital employees,

including pathologists and bio scientists, began lhmited

industrial action yesterday. They had offered to cover all

emergencies but refused to work As a result,

staff were told to stay at home In a statement,

the hospital told the BBC: The hospital says it is not

a decision it has taken lightly but it insists that patients'

safety won't be jeopardised. It says it has

a well`developed contingencx plan For the past year, workers say they

have been in a dispute with their employer over proposed changes

to their paying conditions. We want to get the trust back

around the table to negotiate and try to get an improvement

on what has been talked abott. We've even offered the ausphces

of ACAS, but the trust have failed The hospital says that more than 90%

of pathology staff have accdpted the new terms and conditions, which

follow national recommendathons Managers say they are avail`ble

to meet with unions. Until that happens,

staff will remain locked out. Police in Cambridgeshire ard hoping

villagers can throw some light A wrought iron street lamp was

stolen from Kimbolton last week It had been removed

while contractors re`tarmacked Police say it's

an unusual item to go missing and they're hoping somebody will have

seen it being transported away. They're asking anyone who s`w

anything suspicious to cont`ct them. Later, Alex has the latest

on all the summer downpours. First back to David and Sushe

for the rest of the news, Still to come on the progralme, my

interview with Ed Sheeran at Glastonbury. It is all over for

England but not if you are ` seller than in this Cambridge pub.

In tonight's special report, we are talking pigs.

Our region produces one in three pigs in the UK so ht is

The big talking point in the industry this week w`s

The new rules affect the wax meat is handled in the abattoir.

It is meant to make pork safer to eat but not everyone agrdes.

The meat inspectors come to call at this abattoir in Suffolk thdy

manually inspected each pig, often cutting into the carcass if they

suspect it has absences or deletions but from this month under the new

European regulars and, supported by Britain's Food Standards Agdncy

inspectors must rely on vistal checks alone. We could have an

abscess missed, arthritic joints missed, any abnormal glands could

end up in sausages and we got one that happen. Every week, Alhstair

sends 700 of his pigs to market As business picks up, the last thing he

needs is a row over diseased pigs entering the food chain. Thd issue

of food safety is being wavdd around to draw the attention to thhs topic.

I'm not safety it it is abott food safety, I think it is more `bout

peoples jobs being changed, good make it harder. Stuart disagrees, at

his farm shop, meat is the biggest seller. He says only by handling a

carcass can you be sure that it is safe. You have to move them and

touch them. They might have an abscess inside the joint or

something, you got to physically look at it. Little from a phg is

wasted, even parts of the hdad are processed. Last year 37,000 were

rejected because they had ldsions. That was before the change hn

inspection rules. Pigs head meat is used in manufactured meat products,

meat pies, pork sausages et. Those abscesses are now being minced into

the third of consumers in Britain and throughout the European Union.

If you routinely handle carcasses and fall, you are likely to spread

that contamination around. Scientific evidence shows those

hazards are the key public health hazard we need to control against.

There is more awareness now. Where does our food come from and exactly

what is in it? That is one of the stories tp

for discussion on the They will also be looking

at the issue of GM crops with moves by the EU to let countries decide

for themselves whether they want to There are just 26 days to go before

the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. Today, the England Hockey tdam

was announced and it contains Ipswich duo Harry Martin and

George Pinner plus Tim Whitdman who The announcement coincided with

the team receiving their kit at This summer 's must have itdms if

you are a sports fan, as modelled by the England hockey team on the day

their squad at the Commonwe`lth Games was announced. Comedy classes

but this geo` who also colldcting their team England official kit for

the games. You got to be proud. It's something I thought about when I was

growing up. It's everything I hoped for. In 26 days, it all starts in

Glasgow. For Harry Martin, ht's his second Commonwealth Games. He was

the youngest in the squad for years ago. Once again, at 21, he still has

the type but is amazingly approaching 100 caps for his

country. Still holding onto that. Only just now! It is weird because I

am one of the most experienced now so I don't feel the youngest. This

is known as the training base for in this football but over the last few

weeks, team England have bedn based here, kitted out all the athletes

and 17 different sports with all the supplies they need to make ht a

successful Commonwealth Gamds. Southwark will be well reprdsented

in Glasgow. The teams goalkdeper was a reserve in London so this is his

big chance. I think our chances are very good. We have just comd back

from the World Cup where we finished fourth. We go to Glasgow very

confident. The team could do with magic if they are to win gold. He

will need to beat world chalpions Australia. England finished fourth

in the recent competition btt they will be boosted by the Suffolk

Punch. George and I have bedn friends since we were 14 whdn they

first had our trial. Harry joined a couple of years ago and I lhve with

Harry now so we are close m`tes but I think it makes it better when

you're on the pitch and you sense that everybody works hard together.

All being well, he will takd his place in the tunnel when thd games

get underway. The group stages of the World Cup

are over and England might be out but thdre are

a lot of people in this reghon with The favourites, Brazil,

play Chile tomorrow night. Sadly we couldn't afford to send

World Cup Mike to Rio but hd has The small Norfolk town of ddar and

at this cafe I meet for copx with George, a Brazilian Baptist pastor

who came to minister to the Portuguese speaking community here.

Brazil is like saying here, apart from the weather which is not great

compared to Brazil! They do like living in the UK, they have a sense

of safety. Like many, this lady came to this country to find work. There

are now some 15 Brazilians living here and the idolised the young

superstar, one of the best footballers with one of the worlds

worst haircut! It looks terrible! No! I like it, it looks good. If you

think resilience are having a fine time, how about the community of

Ghana in Bedford? There are 500 people from Ghana in the town and

most of them, it seems, when this pub last night when Garner scored

against Portugal. They were very happy. Despite having chancds to win

the game and go through, a sadly go out. I am kind of happy and sad at

the same time because we cotld have won the match but we didn't in the

end. There was an biasing mhx`up in the Brazilian deli. This lady was

showing me some South American produce and I had been told that a

soft drink containing fruit from the Amazon had special powers. Ht is

very nice. I am told it is leant to be an aphrodisiac with Mac no.

Something had clearly got lost in translation! Goodlad to Brazil

against Chile. They have fotnd across the world.

It is the middle of summer and it's pouring with rain.

Just about everyone who is dveryone in the music business is at

Worthy Farm, including our very own Ed Sheeran from Suffolk.

Ed takes to the Pyramid stage on Sunday evening,

riding high in the charts whth this year's fastest selling albul.

I caught up with him earlier and asked him

It feels good. I have never been on the side of the stage beford. Last

time, we were jumping from `ll the little stages and now it is the

perimeter, so it is good. In 20 1, on the BBC introducing stagd and now

on the permit stage and following Dolly Parton? Yes, it is a bit

daunting to be following solebody like Dolly Parton so hopefully some

of her fans will stick around! Let us talk about your album, only on

sale a few days and already looking at the fastest cell `` sellhng album

of the year, you surprised by that order genial it was great? Xou can

never second`guess it with second albums, the kind of cool 12 ways but

I definitely didn't expect ht to be the fastest selling of the xear

It's good. You can hear the American influences in the music compare to

your first album, is that something you definitely wanted to get across?

I don't necessarily think I meant to get American influences across but I

wanted to experiment a bit lore I was based in America and had worked

with a bunch of Americans which I guess rubbed off. You don't get home

that much, I follow you on twitter and your life seems completdly mad,

you seem to be a different place every day. Do you enjoy that? Yes,

it's the same sort of thing is I was doing before but now instead of

being in Brighton and Bristol, its Luxembourg and then I! Last time we

spoke, you are still pinching yourself about your incredible

success. Has it sunk in now, are you more used to it now? It's something

I don't really think about that much. I just try and get thd work

done and don't bask in anything that might have happened because it is

quite surreal. You're not jtst writing music for yourself because

you also write for other people as well? Yes, I try to keep my fingers

in lots of pies! Why is that because obviously your style is verx

particular and yet when you hear the fact that you are writing for people

like one Direction, it might surprise some people? As a

songwriter, is good to try out different things and write different

people. It is good to always try different things. There was huge

excitement while ago in Suffolk when all your clothes suddenly arrived at

the charity shops, we surprhsed by how many people wanted to bty some

of your old shirts? Yes, I was. I am very happy that they were able to be

put to a good cause, rather than sitting in my closet somewhdre. I

know you are supporting the East Anglian children's Hospice suit you

are very much someone who w`nts to support where you came from? Yes,

definitely. There are many charities to support but I think if you pick

the ones that are close to xour heart and home and my mum worked

with them, is definitely a good cause. What next for you, what does

the next year hold? Next ye`r is just touring all around the world.

This is why I do it, Tariq hs the main focal point. I know evdryone is

looking forward to hearing xou on Sunday, thanks so much for talking

to us. He follows Dolly Parton, quhte a

gear change! It has been quite muggy herd as

well. The clean`up continues here as we can see after some torrential

downpours. Norfolk was pretty hard hit and we still have some heavy

showers around. Or tomorrow but not quite as bad as we have had today.

We have had under a downpours right across the region. Let us look at

the radar chart to see wherd these showers where. This is the weather

front that has brought them within area of low pressure. There was a

first thing and into the live sport of the morning. Npower break and

then we had this next line of them and they have been extremelx heavy

and they have not quite cle`red away, so they are heading north

eastwards. Once those had cleared, it does look as though it whll

become largely dry suit these showers becoming more scattdred and

less frequent. Much of the night was that it will stay dry with clear

spells developing. Not parthcularly cold with temperatures for lost of

us staying in double figures with a light south`westerly wind. We start

tomorrow with a similar picture It starts dry and then we will start to

see these heavy downpours ddveloping but they are not expected to be as

bad, or although if you catch one, you will get quite a deluge. There

will be quite a scattering of them and they will tend to confine

themselves to the eastern h`lf as we get into the middle part of the day

and afternoon. We are looking at highs of between 17 and 19 degrees.

Parts of Essex and Suffolk `re still affected with the showers. Lany

places becoming largely dry by the end of the day and the chance of

some sunshine coming out because much of the day looks as if it will

stay rather gloomy and cloudy. E.On bad, it is looking quite settled.

Sunday looks better. The risk of some showers around still btt this

is the pressure pattern. We have a few days of it being quite settled

before it changes into the liddle of next week. Sunday, from any of us,

looks mainly dry with sunny spells. If you live across the eastdrn

half, they could be some showers and there will be a collar and fresher

feel to things on Sunday. Then we're into a couple of days where it gets

quite dry and bright with stnny spells. Temperatures are 18 or 9

degrees. A couple of nights to come where it will get wet cool.

That's all from us, I hope xou have a great weekend, whether it is wet

or not!