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That's all from the BBC News at 6, so it's goodbye from me,

He made ten trips to various GPs and to A and was told he had an ear

infection or concussion before finally it was discovered he had a

blood clot on the brain. One doctor said I was walking like a

drunk person but it was because I was really ill.

Putting the brakes on plans to ease congestion in Cambridge. Bosses will

think again on peak-time Road closures following protests from

commuters and businesses. Protests in Peterborough -- projects

in Peterborough for those living with cancer.

And will it be sunshine or showers this weekend? Join me later for the

full forecast. First tonight, the Bedfordshire

man who made ten visits before doctors realised he had

a blood clot on his brain. Alex Ray from Shefford was suffering

from headaches and sickness but doctors diagnosed

concussion on one occasion, Finally, a CT scan showed

bleeding on the brain. But by the time he had treatment,

Mr Ray was left with permanent Some guy stole my mobile phone

and I took a blow to the head. In the days after that he was fired

from his well-paid finance job, his wife left him,

taking their two-year-old son, after bizarre behaviour brought

on by a brain haemorrhage, undiagnosed by doctors

for three months. A lot of blurred vision

and massive headaches. Then in the later stages

I couldn't walk properly. One of the doctors said

I was walking like a drunk person Alex Ray first came here to the A

at Lister in Stevenage. They had a look at him

and then let him go. He then went to his GP surgery

in Shefford on eight different occasions, seeing eight

different doctors. They thought he may

have an ear infection. Finally, fearing for his life,

he came back here. With a blood clot on his brain

still unfound, they sent him home. Everyone was responsible because,

on each occasion, had any one of them said,

"Get yourself to hospital, I'm arranging a scan for

you," the head injury would have been revealed

and different treatment would have occurred,

resulting in Alex probably saving his eyesight, certainly

making it a lot better than it was, and he would have retained the

executive brain function which he After a seven-year legal battle,

finally a pay-out I'm still not happy but I can't

turn back time so I have I just hope it doesn't happen

to anyone else in a similar The Trust told us,

although the majority of Mr Ray's claim was against the GP practice,

the Trust has accepted it was wrong that he

was not referred for a CT scan. It's hoped the settlement

agreed will go Eventually a call to an out of hours

service led to His eyesight damaged for good

and signed off work. Now he just wants to be

there for his son. Earlier, I spoke to Dr Peter Carter,

the former head of the Royal College of Nursing who now

works as an independent I asked him how often this kind

of misdiagnosis can happen. This is a pretty

exceptional case, a very serious case, and every sympathy

with the gentleman involved, but it is actually very rare

to have had something where someone has made

so many visits to their GP and then

to a hospital But is it the case that

because GPs are under pressure, generally

they get ten minute appointments, I think we should be very proud

of our general practitioner colleagues but there is no doubt

that general practice Go to any surgery

on any day and it will be chock-a-block and GPs are under

a huge amount of pressure and it is sad that occasionally someone will

miss something which in retrospect looked obvious but at the time

a busy person can miss. But do you think that GPs

could be better trained The GP has to know

a little about a lot because every day they may

have 15, 20, 25 patients come through with a huge

range of different presentations. Whereas a consultant then

goes on to do specialist training So whilst I know that

a patient may feel, "Well, why wasn't that

so easy to spot?" Again, what may seem quite

obvious when things have gone wrong and there has been

a re-examination of the case, is not necessarily the case when a GP has

just got a stream of patients coming in with a huge variety

of issues and conditions. How worried are you

that in the present climate this kind of thing

could happen again? Right across the NHS

there have been huge cutbacks and what we need

to do is invest more Virtually every western European

country invests more than we do. France, Germany,

Spain, I could go on. Police have named the woman who was

found dead at a flat in Luton days before a man's body

was found dumped in a bin. Tabussum Winning, who was

34 and from Pakistan, was discovered at her home

in Essex Close 12 days ago. A week later, a man's body was found

in a wheelie bin outside. A man's been arrested

in connection with both deaths. He's been bailed to

return at a later date. Plans to close six of

the main routes into Cambridge at rush hour

are now being reconsidered. The Greater Cambridge City Deal

was trying to keep traffic out to reduce air pollution

and congestion. The plan led to protests from both

commuters and businesses. Tonight, as ever, the evening rush

hour in Cambridge was busy. Cars crawling along

Hills Road as commuters But part of a plan to ease this

congestion is set to be abandoned The plan was to close parts

of this road as well as five others in and out

of Cambridge to traffic during the morning and evening rush hour,

in order to make it easier for bikes The proposals were met

with vociferous opposition. Protests were held, and more

than 10,000 people And now the council

is thinking again. The proposal to put six points

at different places was going to restrict traffic to

too great an extent, so we get the message

from city businesses who are doing

deliveries and residents living within the city centre that we have

to look again at those proposals and make sure that what we come back

with next time is a practical solution to gridlock

and bus unreliability. This is an embarrassing

U-turn, isn't it? Well, no, it's listening

to the public. Three weeks ago,

we spoke to Pete Howard a courier firm, who was worried that

road closures would affect Given the number of roads

and the issues around them, we are having

to come in right round When we met up again today

he was pleased that the council I won't take it as written

in stone until it But, yeah, it is a very positive

reaction and it shows 10,000 people on a

petition, many business owners. It is good they are

paying attention. Councillors still plan to go ahead

with other parts of the City Deal, including introducing a tax

on parking at offices and redesigning roads to make them

better for bikes and buses. But, for the time being at least,

traffic will be allowed to crawl along some of

the city's busiest roads. Thanks to advances

in medical treatment, many more people are

surviving cancer or living At Peterborough City Hospital,

staff have set up a special project to help people cope

with the effects of the illness. In the UK, cancer survival has

doubled in the last 40 years, according to the charity

Cancer Research UK. Do you think that's going to be

enough for both of them? Mum of four Ellen was diagnosed

with cancer two years ago. It had already spread

and she's not sure You think about the children, I

thought about my family, my sisters, my mum, my dad, and the thought

of having to tell all of them was I think it has made such

a difference for me coming here because obviously I am living

with it so I am living The project is believed to be one

of the first of its kind in the country and could help

reshape the future of Every day across

the Peterborough Trust, up to eight people are diagnosed

with cancer but, thanks to modern medicine,

many of those will survive for longer than they would

have done many years ago and it will be able to come

to the centre to receive What we're finding for people who

use the service here is that they are amazed at how many people

are having the same problems. Some of these things

that they don't realise are quite common for people and things we can

help with through our courses, through our one-to-one sessions,

through emotional support. It really can make

a difference to these Cancer Research UK say there have

been great advances in the way We are seeing more people

surviving cancer now. Survival rates have actually doubled

in the past 40 years, which is good news, but obviously

still too many people And also some of those

treatments have terrible So what we are doing

is looking for research, we're looking to find kinder treatments

that won't have debilitating If I wasn't coming here, I think

possibly if I was at home and thoughts going round in your mind,

I think that would be harder. It's hoped the new well-being

project will help people live with cancer in the way that

works best for them. Later, Dan has the weather

for the weekend. Dan is here with

the weekend weather. Anthony Ogogo is raring to get

back into the boxing ring, we meet him ahead

Later this evening Cambridge is host to the world premiere of a new film

about the leader of Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett.

It's been put together by re-knowned filmmaker Anthony Stern.

He was a student with seed in Cambridge and they went to art

school together. Earlier today he said that the idea for the movie

came when he found old film and pictures from the 60s. I found all

these photographs in my cell alert home, and they started making a

series of pictures of my life as a child. -- in my cell at home.

Episodes really, and it all added up into little stories, mini films.

When you took these pictures out of your basement and started looking at

them did it bring back things that you had forgotten? Yes. Having got

Parkinson's, it helped me a lot to remember who I was in the past. And,

music was right at the heart of everything that we did in the 1960s.

Yes, music and fashion. Some major change occurred and it was freedom I

think. We will all free then, you see, and now we're not free. We were

free from the war years and parent's generation. We were the first

outpouring of freedom after that. Syd Barrett was one of the lads

around town with me he was a lovely guy, a wasn't famous then he was

just himself. -- he wasn't famous then. He never grew up he was always

a child. What you remember about Cambridge in the 1960s? Sells

mostly, let's be honest. Music, obviously -- girls mostly. As a film

RU pleased with it? I love it, it is my life, I wasn't trying to be

famous, I was just there as an observer. Today, with mobile phones

and the way that people book all things now, everybody seems to be

doing what you were doing then. Yes, but they are doing it digitally said

that photographs will be lost. Whereas, film lasts for ever. Being

here with people who felt exactly the same as you changed your life?

Yes, there was something good about Cambridge. It is the old stone you

walk along at night, people walked them before hundreds of years ago

and you have the vibrations of all that knowledge and Palin and wisdom.

Tank you very much. -- and talent and wisdom.

and after years of battling injury there's a welcome

return to the boxing ring for Suffolk's Anthony Ogogo.

But first football, and we hear from MK Dons manager

Karl Robinson after a poor run of results.

The details from James Burridge at Stadium MK.

Here we are in mid October and surprise surprise the managers are

feeling the pressure again Carl Robinson here at MK Dons. He is

currently the fair at longest serving manager in English football.

But his team are stuck in a rock in League 1, desperate to find an

answer. Gone are the glorious moments of promotion to the

championship, gone are the stars who propelled them there. He is having

to be built into a seven season as manager and it is not going

according to plan, they have not won at home since March. How much is

eating you up at the moment? Yes, a lot. You can't hide that because you

want to win. But I'm just as proud as my players as I ever have been.

Like they say, these times are sent to test-tube and sometimes, in any

industry you're bad days and good days. How deep you see him coping

with the pressure of manager at the moment? -- how to use the him.

Brilliantly, or the players by him and all want to play the same way --

all the players are behind him. Tuesday night against Bristol Rovers

was a cruel reminder of how fickle football can be. Robinson was left

berating the officials. I've been here for nearly 350 games, I

remember after 25 games it was a lot worse than this. Can you turn it

around this time? Had bullied before, twice. It is about changing

the guard. -- I have been here but oral, twice. You're lucky, any other

manager would have been sacked by now. Are you worried about that?

Lizzie does, that is his decision, I know I'm good at what I'd do and

almost at the best and all my players are talented and gifted and

work hard every single day of their life. I have no fear of failure if

that's what people want to know. Here we are in the wet corner of the

changing room at MK Dons. -- in the red corner. Title fight he's taking

on Craig Cunningham, the last three years have been pretty rough for him

but as Tom Williams now reports, he is on the comeback trail.

He says the hardware is done and that is without throwing a punch.

One look at the way in and Anthony Edberg O is clearly in supreme shape

ahead of byte night. I have won this fight weeks ago with the hardware

guide put in so I know I've got to turn up on Saturday night and bring

the best me and I will be victorious. Middleweight, blue

ribbon red category. It embodies skill, strength. To be the best

middleweight you have to be the best writer on the planet. Ogogo pound

professional after claiming bronze at the London Olympics. Injury has

prevented a faster progress, he became a household name starring on

strictly come dancing, but is focused the last year on boxing. How

has it that the pinned a stepping stone is this for you, going for

your best professional title this weekend? It is massive, I was

brought up with my mum and sisters and didn't have much money growing

up. I'm not money orientated, I'm given by an, award, prestige and

that is what this belt is going to give me. He was a superstar after

doing nothing, is only been on a little bouncing show. -- a little

bouncing show. Had you made the progress that you have done since

the Olympic? I am making up the last time and going to win my first title

tomorrow night, I want to collect as many belts and silverware as

possible. It is about how I regarded at the end of my career. In ten

years' time I want to look back and say yes, I did it. I wouldn't change

boxing in Birmingham on anything. Ogogo means business. So confident

he is already planning the defence of his belt in Norwich in December.

He has to win at best but in his words, that is a formality. Just

finished with, Ali in the week Max Whitlock was in the parade in

London. Today, him and his team-mate were back in their training base,

inspiring a generation. In just over half an hour inside out will finish

Paralympic swimming champion The 15-year-old from

Northampton was inspired by watching Ellie Simmonds

at the London Paralympics in 2012. We follow her on her return home

from Rio, as she shares her triumph with school friends,

clubmates and family. It's on in half an

hour's time on BBC 1. On Sunday two very special young men

from Suffolk will be honoured at an awards ceremony

at Wembley Arena in London. Their names are Joe and Toby

and they've been named one of this the awards celebrate the selfishness

and bravery of teenagers across the UK. -- setup less nurse. They will

be given never walked in front of thousands at a huge pop concert this

weekend. Meet 15-year-old Toby, today he played was a classic from

the proclaimers, a song that meant a lot from his brand Aaron. -- a song

that meant a lot to his friend. We were in a band, he was the front man

he led us into happy thing we did really. He was always confident on

stage, playing at school. But weeks after they began busking results

from Alan's I test showed that he had a brain Schumacher and within

weeks he passed away. -- Alan's I test. They are just absolutely

brilliant, they really are. I have grandsons myself and if they turn

out like these boys I will be a proud grandmother. So far they have

raised thousands but cancer research and a charity they set up in their

friend 's name. It was a bit overwhelming, I couldn't believe it

happened but the best B weeks. It was quite difficult to deal with. --

I couldn't believe it happened but the first few weeks. When did you

decide to put a positive spin on it and do seven about it? A few weeks

later when I found out how well his family were doing. What are you

feeling when you bust? It differs from time to time. What goes to your

head? It is never the same. Any memories? Occasionally, but not

particularly. It is more about raising money now than it is about

remembering. Last week Toby and Joe had a trip to the palette Palace --

a trip to the palace. This week they have to take a break from hanging up

clothes and trouble to Wembley Stadium instead to pick up their

teen hero awards. A day to remember that these two lads who pledged

never to forget their best friend, Aaron. Isn't that brilliant. I hope

they have a really good time. Now when I was driving into work today

massive bubble rainbow. Do you have pictures? Yes we've been inundated.

We have been talking about this chilly North flow. If we take a

look at the satellite pixie can see quite a bit of cloud out there but

it is broken. If we take a look underneath that cloud we will see

the showers we had today. The heaviest have stayed offshore but

close to the coast. At the showers by inland as well, in the fair west

of the region it did stay mainly dry. But, inundated with your

pictures. He was one from earlier today. And where each, it is upside

down. Fondly cool a smile in the sky. It is caused by the sun is

shining through high-level clouds, which doesn't happen very often. So,

this evening we have a few showers in the east which will be inland.

Some clear spells as well inland. Some list. Chilly in the

countryside. Around the coast a knob around 7 degrees. Again fairly

similar weather again -- around the coast staying around 7 degrees.

Quick passage 12 showers but most of the time to write temperatures

getting up to 13 or 14 degrees, more or less average. I cold the start to

Sunday, temperatures close to freezing. Maybe a touch of frost.

Mist and fog widespread, and we will also have a few showers across

Northbrook and North Cambridgeshire. Probably more than the graphic

suggests, feathers cloud -- further south. Temperatures getting up to 12

or 13 degrees as we get to Sunday afternoon. Bruce Wedderburn coming

up on the south but it will weaken quite a bit by the time it reaches

of. At this stage the Monday it is looking like quite a chilly day,

cloud, misty, some patchy rain. Hopefully brighter and mouth but

Tuesday. Here your barometer. Thank you very much, Dan. Have a

good weekend. Goodbye.