:00:00. > :00:00.Another death at Woodhill prison in Milton Keynes -
:00:00. > :00:00.campaigners and families call for action...
:00:07. > :00:10.Owners of the Northamptonshire company are said to be
:00:11. > :00:23.And after a chilly night, some milder temperatures expected later.
:00:24. > :00:27.Join me later for all the details. An inquest opened in Milton Keynes
:00:28. > :00:31.today into the death of an inmate at Woodhill prison -
:00:32. > :00:34.the seventh at the jail this year. The man, thought to have had mental
:00:35. > :00:37.health problems, died just a day Pressure groups say Woodhill has
:00:38. > :00:55.the highest rate of inmate Woodhill prison officers attended
:00:56. > :00:59.the inquest opening into the death of a man with mental health issues
:01:00. > :01:04.who was sent to the jail for the weekend ahead of an appearance in
:01:05. > :01:08.court on a charge of dangerous driving. Prison officers had
:01:09. > :01:12.reported him for his bizarre behaviour and within 24 hours of
:01:13. > :01:17.being put inside Woodhill prison he was found dead at his cell. One
:01:18. > :01:22.prisoner, and so many to end their lives behind bars here. So far this
:01:23. > :01:40.Year Seven prisoners have died at Wood Hill, more per head of prison
:01:41. > :01:44.population than any other jail in the country. He was sent to Wood
:01:45. > :01:47.Hill on December the tenth and he was known to mental health services
:01:48. > :01:50.and of December the 11, he was seen by an officer at 7:15am and found
:01:51. > :01:52.unconscious at five past eight. He had been found hanged in his cell
:01:53. > :01:55.and police say that he was arrested on the M1, he had been a passenger
:01:56. > :01:57.on a bus when he grabbed the steering wheel causing the vehicle
:01:58. > :02:01.to crash. A paranoid schizophrenic, the least described him as highly
:02:02. > :02:05.vulnerable. Coroners, the prison and probation ombudsman who investigated
:02:06. > :02:10.the death and the Inspectorate of prison have repeatedly spoken out
:02:11. > :02:14.about their concerns that the recommendations made following the
:02:15. > :02:16.deaths are simply not being implemented by Woodhill prison. The
:02:17. > :02:21.fact that death after death happens fact that death after death happens
:02:22. > :02:25.at Wood Hill in very similar circumstances suggest that things
:02:26. > :02:28.are fatally wrong at Woodhill prison. Kevin Scarlet had mental
:02:29. > :02:34.health problems when he killed himself at the prison in 2013. Staff
:02:35. > :02:39.had missed the warning signs, his self harming, his previous suicide
:02:40. > :02:43.attempts. His stepbrother says no lessons have been learned. It is
:02:44. > :02:47.shocking, especially when you think that the highest rate of self harm
:02:48. > :02:54.in prison is within the first three days. And if he is showing bizarre
:02:55. > :02:59.behaviour anyway, why is he not being monitored a bit more? Why is
:03:00. > :03:05.he being put in a position where he can take his own life and why are
:03:06. > :03:10.the safer sales not been utilised? The inquest into the latest death
:03:11. > :03:13.was an postponed until next June. It is in the wake of legal action being
:03:14. > :03:18.taken by families of prisoners who have died, they have launched a
:03:19. > :03:22.review to enforce safety procedures in the prison. In a statement, the
:03:23. > :03:26.Ministry of Justice then we have invested in mental health training
:03:27. > :03:31.for officers, allocated more funding for prison safety and launched a
:03:32. > :03:36.suicide and self harm reduction process.
:03:37. > :03:38.Well the Howard League for Penal Reform campaigns
:03:39. > :03:41.Rob Preece from the organisation joined me earlier to explain
:03:42. > :03:49.We have seen a rise in prison population which makes overcrowding
:03:50. > :03:54.a huge problem in Woodhill prison has got room for about 550 prisoners
:03:55. > :03:59.and it is currently holding more than 700. That means you're finding
:04:00. > :04:01.prisoners crammed into small spaces without being able to get out of
:04:02. > :04:05.their sails because there is not enough staff to take them to
:04:06. > :04:09.training, education, exercise and to get the skills they might require to
:04:10. > :04:12.fine work on the outside. Does the government need to build more
:04:13. > :04:16.prisons? The government has announced plans to build more
:04:17. > :04:21.prisons but we do not think it will work. By the time you have built
:04:22. > :04:25.these projects, the prison population has risen by such an
:04:26. > :04:29.extent that the older prisoners that you planned to close, you have to
:04:30. > :04:33.keep them open because the prison population has grown by so much. We
:04:34. > :04:36.need to be serious about this and recognise that we will only solve
:04:37. > :04:41.this problem by reducing the number of people in prison. Why do you want
:04:42. > :04:43.to reduce the number of people in prison? Victims groups might say if
:04:44. > :04:47.a criminal has done something wrong they should be incarcerated for the
:04:48. > :04:52.good of the public. Reoffending rates after prison are much higher
:04:53. > :04:57.than after community punishments. They enable people to be in the
:04:58. > :05:03.community with support from family, better axis to drugs services,
:05:04. > :05:08.alcohol, debt, although services that will better tackle the root
:05:09. > :05:12.causes of offending. What happens in prisons, we put people in
:05:13. > :05:17.overcrowding positions, deprive them of axis to training, exercise and
:05:18. > :05:19.education and we set ourselves up to fail because when it comes to
:05:20. > :05:21.release those people from prison, they are less prepared for the world
:05:22. > :05:27.outside them when they went dead. One person has died and three people
:05:28. > :05:30.have been taken to hospital after a multiple-crash
:05:31. > :05:32.on the A142 in Cambridgeshire. It happened at 6am in Mepal
:05:33. > :05:34.and involved three cars - The road remains closed
:05:35. > :05:37.with diversions. Weetabix factories in Corby
:05:38. > :05:40.and Kettering which will be hit by strike action in the New Year,
:05:41. > :05:42.could be up for sale. Chinese owners The Bright Food
:05:43. > :05:45.Group, which is a major stakeholder, is reported to be working on a deal
:05:46. > :05:48.worth a billion pounds. Well, Clare, the Weetabix Food
:05:49. > :05:53.Company has been making one of our best known British breakfast
:05:54. > :05:56.cereals at its mill And it only uses wheat grown
:05:57. > :06:04.on local farms within 50 miles Today it exports from mills
:06:05. > :06:09.at Kettering and Corby to 80 The majority share in the company -
:06:10. > :06:15.some 60% - is owned It hoped to change the palate
:06:16. > :06:20.of Chinese consumers And two years ago, former
:06:21. > :06:26.Chancellor George Osborne visited the Corby plant to witness
:06:27. > :06:28.the manufacture of a product specifically for China -
:06:29. > :06:42.this is what he said. Britain was not exporting enough and
:06:43. > :06:45.we have got more to do, but it is very encouraging to see companies
:06:46. > :06:49.like Weetabix, if famous household brand here in Britain selling
:06:50. > :06:53.products to China and that is a reverse of what has gone wrong in
:06:54. > :06:56.our country, we got ourselves into debt and were buying things from the
:06:57. > :06:58.Chinese and now we are dealing with our doubts and selling things to the
:06:59. > :07:01.Chinese. She But since then, according to reports
:07:02. > :07:03.from news agency Reuters, the bulk of its sales still come
:07:04. > :07:05.from the UK. The mills, already affected
:07:06. > :07:07.by strike action early in the New Year, will now have
:07:08. > :07:10.to wait to find out who the new buyer of the majority
:07:11. > :07:13.share in the company, will be. A Weetabix spokesperson said tonight
:07:14. > :07:16.that they won't comment. It's been revealed the new joint HQ
:07:17. > :07:23.for Northamptonshire's fire and police services will be
:07:24. > :07:26.on Cherry Hall Road in Kettering - and the move will
:07:27. > :07:28.happen late next year. The previous HQ at Wooton
:07:29. > :07:39.Hall is being sold. This is the new police headquarters
:07:40. > :07:42.of Jerry Hall wrote on the outskirts of Kettering, the building should be
:07:43. > :07:47.finished by the summer. It will replace the hall in Northampton
:07:48. > :07:50.which has been the force headquarters since the 1960s. There
:07:51. > :07:55.will be a big upheaval for the force. This is a really exciting
:07:56. > :08:00.opportunity, we have not invested in our estate for quite some time and
:08:01. > :08:04.the building we have was built for old police purposes and this is a
:08:05. > :08:09.bespoke building that has everything we need for modern policing. The new
:08:10. > :08:12.headquarters was due to has 20 sales and the forces investigation centre
:08:13. > :08:15.and is learning and development centre and out it will be joint
:08:16. > :08:18.headquarters with the Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue
:08:19. > :08:22.Service. The police have decided they are moving out and into the
:08:23. > :08:27.stew building. We discussed about the fact that we wanted to go with
:08:28. > :08:31.them, we wanted to continue our collaboration,. In the new
:08:32. > :08:35.headquarters, senior police and fire officers will sit side-by-side
:08:36. > :08:39.rather than being on separate floors. It's another example of the
:08:40. > :08:43.police and Fire Service working closer together, something the
:08:44. > :08:46.government has been encouraging. Northamptonshire 's previous police
:08:47. > :08:52.and crime commissioner decided to shut down the old force headquarters
:08:53. > :08:56.and sell it for ?3.5 million. Given that we are an emergency service, it
:08:57. > :09:02.is imported to get that right, and off a lot of work has gone into
:09:03. > :09:05.making sure that it works. It is the new commissioner who has chosen to
:09:06. > :09:10.move it to this new building and sharing with the Fire Service. I
:09:11. > :09:13.will give you some idea, across Northamptonshire we have 37
:09:14. > :09:19.buildings, they've got 22, by bringing some of those buildings
:09:20. > :09:22.together, we can get a better service,, some places were
:09:23. > :09:27.co-located about sharing of knowledge and resources has got some
:09:28. > :09:32.real benefits. The first people should be there to this new building
:09:33. > :09:33.next summer and the police headquarters staff will start moving
:09:34. > :09:37.here a few months later. Sport - and Peterborough United
:09:38. > :09:40.will take on Premier League leaders They won their second
:09:41. > :09:43.round replay against Notts County two-nil tonight -
:09:44. > :09:46.with goals from Gwion The original match at Meadow Lane
:09:47. > :09:55.ended in a two-all draw. But it's Posh who go
:09:56. > :09:58.to Stamford Bridge for the third round on Sunday the eighth of
:09:59. > :10:04.January. That is all for me, time for the
:10:05. > :10:13.weather. Some fairly chilly temperatures
:10:14. > :10:16.across the region and certainly cold enough for a touch of frost
:10:17. > :10:19.in places but as we go through the night, a weather front
:10:20. > :10:22.pushing in from the West, bringing cloud and patches of rain
:10:23. > :10:24.and temperatures are expected to recover as they get to the end
:10:25. > :10:27.of the night. Wind picking up, potentially a windy
:10:28. > :10:30.day for tomorrow but a slightly We have got this weather front close
:10:31. > :10:34.by, some outbreaks of patchy rain to clear first thing and then
:10:35. > :10:37.the middle part of the day looking largely dry,
:10:38. > :10:39.a little cloudy with some brighter spells and quite breezy,
:10:40. > :10:42.but as we go through the afternoon and evening, rain moving
:10:43. > :10:44.in from the West and some of this could be heavy
:10:45. > :10:47.as we get into the evening. Temperature wise, nine or 10 degrees
:10:48. > :10:49.with a moderate south-westerly wind. The national weather is coming up,
:10:50. > :10:52.but here is the outlook, it will be a bright and sunny day
:10:53. > :10:55.on Thursday, a little chilly, and the wind is picking up
:10:56. > :11:05.for the end of the week country it's worth knowing the
:11:06. > :11:12.national forecast. Over now to Tomasz.
:11:13. > :11:15.So, the weather's going to blow a few cobwebs away in the coming days
:11:16. > :11:19.and maybe a few other things, as well. How stormy is it going to get?
:11:20. > :11:25.For most of us probably not too terrible. It is, however, going to
:11:26. > :11:33.be very nasty across parts of Scotland on Friday. The clouds are
:11:34. > :11:37.racing across the Atlantic and we will see a storm by the time we get
:11:38. > :11:39.to around about Friday and then Friday night.
:11:40. > :11:42.At the moment we have a weather front crossing the country, we have
:11:43. > :11:44.had dreadful weather in the north-west, it was cold and raining
:11:45. > :11:48.in Northern Ireland and western Scotland. This band of rain will be
:11:49. > :11:54.somewhere here by the end of the night. Behind it a shot of cooler
:11:55. > :11:58.air, colder air and frequent showers. This is what Wednesday
:11:59. > :12:03.looks like. Lots of showers around across northern parts of the
:12:04. > :12:04.country, some of them with hail. Maybe even thunder crossing