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The missed signs of abuse that left a five week old girl

A report finds hospital staff missed chances to intervene.

Then a child is presented at a hospital with injuries like this

over a period of time that is so short on any subject out.

Comedian Rory McGrath admits harassing a married woman

for 14 months, but he escapes prison.

This has been a dark time, and thankfully it's now over. I wish to

thank the judge and apologise to my wife.

Getting the youth vote out - how the government's building

And I'm here in Stevenage where astronaut Tim Peake is inspiring the

next generation. First tonight the missed chances

that could have prevented a couple inflicting catastrophic injuries

on their five week old daughter. Baby Isabelle may never

regain her sight and will have to be fed through a tube for the rest

of her life. Last year her father

Rocky Uzzell and mother But today a report said that if rib

fractures had been spotted by Kettering Hospital,

she could have been removed from their care.

Here's Sally Chidzoy. They were parents who inflicted

horrific injuries on their baby. Rocky Uzzell and Katherine Prigmore

were seen to laugh at the hospital where five-week-old Isobel lay

in a critical condition. Prigmore's seen on the right,

who filmed her partner violently shaking and

squeezing their daughter. This serious case review

highlights major failings Baby Isabel was admitted here six

times in five weeks. Yet not once did staff even consider

that her parents could be Had they recognised them,

they could have taken steps to have her removed from her parents

to prevent more serious injury. The warning signs are all here,

and touched on in the report, yet they were missed time

and time again. On March 6th 2014, Isabel

was admitted with leg pain. There was an x-ray,

no injury was detected. Three days later, she was readmitted

after turning blue. On March 12 she was in hospital

again, vomiting and floppy. On March 20,

she was back in hospital. She was limp.

Injuries were finally identified. The next day,

the parents were arrested. I think what is of particular

importance is the repeat presentation to hospital over a very

short period of time. That should bring an immediate

child protection flag, and immediate child protection

concern, really, The couple, who were jailed last

December, lived in this Shocked neighbours say

they rarely saw them. I knew something wasn't

right, because they... I saw them out with a pushchair

once, that was it. Unable to walk, talk,

see and swallow, she is with foster parents, and is not expected to live

beyond her teens. Kettering Hospital declines

to give an interview, but said there was profound regret

over the missed opportunities It said it has introduced

improvements to procedures So, how was this allowed

to happen to baby Isabelle? I asked head of the Northamptonshire

Safeguarding Children There was not sufficient information

sharing between agencies, although I have to stress that

in itself wouldn't have necessarily More particularly, we are very

concerned that the people at the accident and emergency

facility were not serious enough -- curious enough

about whether the reasons for admission to hospital

were safeguarding linked or not. They were not curious

enough about whether abuse One thing that stands out

in the report is that an x-ray was done on the child's chest,

and broken ribs were missed. I'm told by the medical experts that

actually it's quite hard to tell in small babies whether a rib

has broken or not, but the issue, as I understand it, and has come

through in our report, is that the x-rays were not examined

by a paediatric radiologist. If that examination had taken place

as it should have been, it is very likely that the child,

the baby wouldn't have been Very likely wouldn't have gone

back to the parents, and this awful outcome would have

very likely not have happened. How does this case compared

to other safeguarding cases I would say this is one of the most

serious cases I have personally dealt with both in terms

of the severity of the injuries, and And also, in terms of the fact

that the report does say that it is very likely that this

could have been avoided. On a scale, I would say this

is very serious indeed. And so what are you recommending

to try and stop it happening again? There is a different arrangement

now for the examination of x-rays in babies and young children,

for example, and the sharing

of information, particularly information about

fathers has been really reinforced, and that is all

backed by training programme for the relevant staff,

and we as a board are also monitoring and auditing

the impact of that. So are you 100% sure that if a baby

was brought into the hospital today that it would be picked up

and it would be acted upon? In safeguarding, there are no,

not ever 100% guarantees. What we are assured as a board

is that that curiosity that I had been talking about would be enacted,

those questions will be asked, and safeguarding will be

considered as a priority. The television entertainer

and comedian Rory McGrath has been give a suspended ten week jail

sentence today after admitting harassing

a woman for 14 months. The court in Huntingdon was told

McGrath and the married woman The harassment started

when she ended the affair. Mike Cartwright's at

Huntingdon magistrates' court now. Rory McGrath told the woman he

harassed that this would make a wonderful court case. Well, in that

court today, we heard in detail what he did. The actions he thought would

remain private became very public indeed.

Arriving at court, his wife by his side.

Rory McGrath who the court was told pursued a course of conduct

After harassing a married mother in her 40s for more than a year.

the two having an affair for more than five years.

The woman wanting to finish it after McGrath, she said,

had become difficult and unpleasant company.

The two had shared intimate messages and texts.

Rory McGrath threatening to publish glossy images of her.

The judge was told of his deep remorse.

his solicitor spoke on McGrath's behalf.

This has been a dark time, and thankfully it is now over.

I wish to thank the judge, and apologise to my wife.

And family, and thank them for their incredible support

In a Cambridge Park, Rory McGrath tailed the woman as she went

He contacted her husband and her new partner.

Police say harassment cases are on the rise,

encouraging victims to come forward.

I would urge them to pick up the phone, ring us, tell us.

Call the police, we can help you, we can put you in touch with other

agencies and support services that can help you in both the short-term

On TV from the 90s, he became a household name.

His behaviour, likened to a midlife crisis.

His actions described as bizarre and increasingly desperate.

In sentencing, the judge told McGraw it was a persistent controlled

imposition of yourself on the victim and those close to her. He was also

ordered to pay ?200 in costs and a five-year restraining order was

imposed. In just over three months voters

in Cambridgeshire will go to the polls to choose the

county's first ever elected mayor. And one of the first tests

for the new role will be how many people turn out to vote

in May's election. So, today a government

minister was in the county, hearing ideas from young people

about how to get as many people Our political reporter

Tom Barton has the details. Our political reporter

Tom Barton has the details. Back to the classroom to hear how

sixth formers think young people can be encouraged to register to vote.

The Minister for the institution was at long road College in Cambridge

today. At the top of the agenda, the election of a mayor for

Cambridgeshire this May. Do you believe that there is a worry that

turnout will be lower a bit like in the police and crime commission is

election? We look at these new established position such as the

combined mayoral authority. We need to make sure that people are aware

that this is taking place on the 4th of May this year. So what do these

politics students think of this new part of the political system? I do

think you can have one person to represent thousands of people. If it

represents amateur and the surrounding areas then it will be a

good point coming from that. I don't think you can represent

Cambridgeshire as one. Hopefully the mayor will be in touch with his

local community and know exactly what it needs. We now know who five

of the candidates for the election will be. Ukip have selected Paul

Bollen. But casual is representing liberal Democrats. Peace door is

standing as an independent. The Green candidate will be Julie

Howell, and the Conservatives selected last week James Palmer.

Labour are currently voting to due to their candidate will be. Whoever

wins the election here in Cambridge in May will get a significant range

of new powers over training, over where new housing is built, and

crucially over the county public transport network, but while all of

that power and significant money is coming here to Cambridgeshire, the

same is not true elsewhere in our region. This is, you say, a good

thing for Cambridgeshire, but for other parts of our region,

Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire, there is a mayor,

there is no new powers, there is no new money. This is an inconsistent

policy, is it couldn't write? This is crucial to be bottom up. We need

to come forward with workable arousal for devolving housing

budgets, transport budgets, that we will list going forward, but it has

DBE for local areas to be able to decide how to do its best. In

Cambridgeshire the countdown has started. Some of these students will

be among those choosing the counties that ever electro mayor. At first

ever elected mayor. Local elections traditionally get

much lower turnouts than general elections....is there any sense

that this might be different ? Welcome you heard in my report a

student asking the minister about the police and crime commission

elections and went those elections were first held back in 2012, you

saw the lowest ever turnout, 12% in some places, of people bothering to

vote. And even the second time those elections were held back in 2015,

only about 30% of people voted, even those at those elections were held

on the same day as the general election. Council turnout is often

quite low as well, regularly below 15% that are 50%. There is a risk

can ahead, that the new mayoral role could struggle to persuade people to

turn out and vote, but this mayor is a big job with a big budget and a

lot of response ability and I think the minister's visit today shows how

did the government is that you will have decent turnout at this

election. So people in Cambridge are actually getting a vote on it all.

What about the rest of the region? Elsewhere in the region, at the

moment there aren't any serious discussions going on, there were

proposals kicking around for both Bedfordshire and for part of

Northamptonshire. They, though, came to nothing, and there is a plan for

devolution in Norfolk and Suffolk, very similar to the camera deal

which collapsed last year, but the minister as he saw there said that

the government is open to suggestions, so it is possible that

we could see more mayors elsewhere in our region in the future. Tom,

thanks very much. Police are appealing

for witnesses after a car was stolen in Cambridgeshire

with a baby inside. Police have released CCTV video

of the incident in Kimbolton A passenger pulled up in a vehicle

near the mother's car which she'd left parked outside a shop

with the baby strapped in the back. The man jumped in and

drove the vehicle away. He abandoned the car a hundred yards

away on London Road. Cambridgeshire police have raised

concern over CCTV footage showing a near miss incident between a van

and woman walking her two horses. The video, which has been watched

more than 400 times, was taken on Red Fen Road

in Little Thetford Police are warning drivers to take

extra care on country roads and to always approach a horse

at less than 15 miles per hour. The Cambridge MP Daniel Zeichner has

become the first member of Jeremy Corbyn's front-bench team

to say he will defy an order to vote The Labour MP, whose constituency

voted overwhelmingly in favour of Remain,

said he will respect That's all from me -

I'm back at 10.30 with more on our top stories -

but for now here's Stewart and Susie And the moment this Essex

photographer thought he'd never see. Around 20 lucky children had a day

they'll never forget today. They met the astronaut Tim Peake

in Stevenage at a new educational centre aimed at inspiring

the scientists of the future and today, we were told he's

going back into space sometime But in Stevenage, it was all

about getting young hands For a man who was blasted into

space, it was a suitably out of this world opening. Strand putting us

from Stevenage to Mars. This testing yard at the heart of the interactive

centre, all about inspiring the next generation. It is all hands on with

a teacher with unique qualifications. It's really exciting

meeting him and everything is very fun to play with. He is a bit famous

so that is really exciting. I asked him about the Northern lights and he

sought them about to authorise -- two or three times a week. What more

expiring for these children than to be standing next to someone who has

been into orbit, looking out to the future of space exploration. If you

can get them excited about science at that early age, that is when they

will make the decision to study those and we can grow our workforce

for the future, which will be of huge benefit to the UK. And there

was a nod to today's news that he is set to return to orbit. Space is a

wonderful place to live and work. Every astronaut would love to get

back up there. The Airbus Centre will be won by North Hertfordshire

College. Access to live space research and extraordinary asset. It

is rare to see a business open the doors of its most incredible

projects to help inspire the next generation. These would-be

scientists filling an important void. For our burgeoning industry in

the UK which is the right thing we need a good strong pipeline of our

own engineers and scientists and technicians coming through, and

these sort of programmes are an excellent way to create that talent

for the future. When he was a boy, Tim Peake dreams of being a pilot. A

message to these youngsters, anything is possible.

When the national living wage was brought in last year,

there was a warning that it would have an effect on care

there's evidence that it's forced up the cost of care

and been a factor in some homes closing.

The living wage came in last April and will go up by 30 pence an hour

One nursing home in Essex has already put up its weekly charge

to more than ?1,000 to pay for the increase in the cost

This from our business correspondent Richard Bond.

Rising wages are always good for morale and when the living

or minimum wage rises in April, many of the 80 staff at this nursing

Lucy Young works in the kitchen and is chuffed by the prospect

I enjoy working here, but getting more money would be brilliant.

Cheviot nursing home has 31 residents and is

It's run on a not-for-profit basis, but as wages rise, it

A year ago, the price of a new bed place here was ?939 a week.

That has had to rise this year to ?1,036,

an increase of 10% and the boss says that is down to the living wage.

The national living wage has gone up by 11.5% in the last two years,

so it has had an impact on the amount we charge people.

I'm sorry about that, because it must sound

like an enormous amount of money if you are in the position that

you are looking for care for someone you love.

Yes, and believe me, we are not making a profit.

The strain of higher fees falls on people like Ken.

His wife Maureen has been here for 18 months

She needs round-the-clock care, but it's hard for the couple to pay

the fees with interest rates on savings on the floor.

If you have made sensible plans for retirement and relying

on and investment income and the income from the investments

drops to virtually zero and yet your commitments continue

to rise, I cannot see anybody being in a position where they can

It's part of a charity and has the resources to survive,

but many smaller homes may not be so lucky.

Everyone likes the idea of higher pay, it's just footing the bill

The cost of caring for the elderly is high and rising, and those people

paying the full cost themselves are actually subsidising

Most homes are a mixture of people who pay for themselves and those

whose care is paid for by councils. The cost is going up and councils

have been unwilling or unable to pay the full increases, so we have been

in this situation for some years were bills for Private people have

been rising at a faster rate than for councils. It has reached a point

where each private residence is subsidising each publicly funded

resident to the tune of up to ?8,000 a year and clearly the increases in

the living wage are going to add to that number and it's a situation

that many argue is unfair and unsustainable.

Norfolk's Alfie Hewett has made another major tennis final.

who won his first Grand Slam title with Gordon Reid

has now reached the final of the wheelchair doubles

He'll play against his British doubles partner

Alfie and Gustavo Fernandez from Argentina

beat the number one seeds in the semifinals.

This region has another World Champion.

has won the Ladies World Indoor Bowls Championship

Ellen Falkner from Cambridgeshire in the final at Hopton

She first won the title three years ago,

making her the youngest ever champion.

Coming back here every year has been an absolute pleasure. This is the

start of the year, could not be a better start. It was an incredible

fame and to be up against Alan, it is what a lot of people would have

asked for. I am a bit lost for words but rather than talk about my

performance, I would rather talk about Catherine and say well done,

well played and enjoy the moment. If you saw Winterwatch last night,

you'll have seen the Wind in the Willows character Ratty

as you've never seen him before. The remarkable wildlife

pictures were shot in Essex They were taken by local Film

maker and photographer it took a lot of time

and a lot of patience, we thought you'd like

to see them again. We're on the River Colne,

it's a chalk stream. I knew that it was a special site

when we first arrived here. A lot of people walk past this place

and don't understand Spend a few minutes,

observe and it comes to you. The voles are fairly

nervous and you've got to be incredibly still,

so you are freezing and being very cold in the water, but just don't

move about and as time goes by and you do more days of it,

they'll become more relaxed and then Sitting right in front of you,

you know, chewing away, they are always here,

every single day, but some of those special shots you need,

they happen just once and you've got One of the most satisfying things

is, because we have this beautiful chalk stream,

you can see these little silver bullets which are the water voles

underwater with the air trapped The life of the water vole is very

short, most of them don't get very far into a second year,

so a huge steep learning curve. On first coming to the site really,

it was this idea that possibly, possibly we had caught water voles

that were climbing trees. The evidence on the tree really most

people would put it down to squirrels and I think

it was worth spending some time, and then they started to climb

and they were going up along the branches and I think

they were probably six I thought that was

quite interesting. Maybe not so steady on their feet

and then to my commencement they just kept climbing

and climbing and climbing. I don't know what the difference

was between bark at the bottom and the bark at the top,

but they just like to go higher. And the last programme in this

season of Winterwatch is on BBC Two It was very cold today. Yes, we have

all been complaining about the cold today. These were our top

temperatures. Some places not getting higher than minus two

Celsius and then factor in the wind-chill, it felt colder. Another

cold night on the way. Not many photographs today because not many

braved the outdoors to take them. Grey and overcast through much of

the day but just as the sunset, the glimpse of a blue sky. Over much of

the region there will be clear skies developing, so another sharp

tonight. It looks as though many of us will get down to minus two

Celsius but you can see on the map, a bit more cloud coming to the south

by the end of the night and the possibility of light sleet or snow

into counties like Essex. Gradually tomorrow we will see something

milder coming our way. Although it will be a cold start to Friday, with

a widespread frost, it will recover. This weather feature heading

northwards through the morning. A very light covering of sleet or

snow, not expected to settle. It clears the way. The middle part of

the day dry and bright and then it tends to cloud over again.

Temperatures around four or 5 degrees but by the evening, we could

be up at around seven or 8 degrees as that milder air works its way

northwards. We still have the chance of patchy rain arriving by the end

of the day and overnight, and then we're into an unsettled weekend.

There is a bit of uncertainty about this weather feature but it looks as

though it will bring us strong winds, cloudy at times with the

chance of rain and shall this. I had this dream that we were going

upstairs and the boss said, tonight, we will go somewhere warm to present

the programme. Don't think it will come true. Good night.

Einstein replaced Newton's theory of universal gravitation

with a more accurate theory - general relativity.

So, why's my apple falling? Well, it's not.

It is the ground that accelerates up to meet the apple.

So that's why the chair that I'm sitting on now

that actually feels as if it's accelerating up

It's really changed my relationship with this chair. Mm-hm.

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