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In the programme tonight... Douglas Carswell who became the first Ukip | :00:08. | :00:17. | |
MP says he will not stand again in Clacton. In mental health trust | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
apologises to this man after their neglect contributed to his death. | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
Hundreds attend the meeting in Southwold tonight. | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
Douglas Carswell, who became the first Ukip MP in 2014 says | :00:35. | :00:42. | |
he won't stand for re-election in Clacton and instead will back | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
It was just last month that he stood down from Ukip | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
Now he says after helping win the referendum last June, | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
We'll hear from him in a moment after this report from our political | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
In many ways, today's news is not a surprise. | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
Ever since he left Ukip last month, Douglas Carswell has been | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
telling people he has achieved his long-standing | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
ambition of getting us out of the European Union. | :01:16. | :01:17. | |
Once again, Clacton becomes an important seat to watch. | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
I think Douglas knew he could not win here on an independent | :01:22. | :01:23. | |
This is a Ukip town and he has recognised that. | :01:24. | :01:32. | |
If he supports the Conservative candidate, it does put us | :01:33. | :01:34. | |
I am today leaving the Conservative Party and joining Ukip. | :01:35. | :01:48. | |
His decision to defect to Ukip and when the subsequent by-election | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
At the time, he cited local concerns over housing and GP shortages | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
as his main reason for leaving the Conservatives but it | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
subsequently emerged that this was all part | :02:01. | :02:13. | |
of a plan to pressure on David Cameron not to go back | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
on his promise to call an EU referendum. | :02:17. | :02:18. | |
His stance on issues like immigration often put him | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
There were several attempts to have him thrown out. | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
He tried to undermine everything we stood for for a very long | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
time in terms of policy, in terms of campaigns. | :02:29. | :02:30. | |
He became an MP first for Harwich and Clacton 12 years ago and built | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
One reason why he felt confident about joining Ukip. | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
His decision to become an independent and now | :02:38. | :02:39. | |
to leave altogether may have cost him support. | :02:40. | :02:41. | |
The man cannot make his mind up and now he does not | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
If he keeps changing it about, what chance do we have | :02:46. | :02:57. | |
Rarely out of the news, this part of his career | :02:58. | :03:05. | |
is at an end and for Clacton, a new era begins. | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
When I spoke to Douglas Carswell, I asked him if he'd made | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
the decision to step down because he knew this time | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
In all the time I stood for election, I only lost once and that | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
I am more than happy to fight elections. | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
I want to fight elections if they serve a purpose. | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
We have a Prime Minister who wants to | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
ensure that the Brexit result last June is delivered. | :03:32. | :03:33. | |
That is why I went into politics and I couldn't | :03:34. | :03:35. | |
possibly in all fairness and conscious run against her. | :03:36. | :03:42. | |
When you say job done, you are referring | :03:43. | :03:44. | |
Have you really achieved what you have set out to there? | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
There are enormous pressures on local services and it bothers me | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
I was not as successful as I hoped I would be in terms of | :03:53. | :03:59. | |
I have a solid record of putting local first and | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
make sure we safeguard local services. | :04:05. | :04:06. | |
All politics starts and ends locally. | :04:07. | :04:07. | |
We have been to Clacton, locally today and I have to | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
Most of the reaction has not been very positive, Mr Carswell. | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
We have had people saying you flipped | :04:14. | :04:15. | |
We do not know what he stands for and neither does he. | :04:16. | :04:35. | |
That does not look like a good track record | :04:36. | :04:37. | |
I can look back at his solid record of being returned as | :04:38. | :04:44. | |
the local MP, not of questions to do with Europe or Ukip or at the | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
As a local candidate I put the local people | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
The leader of Tendring District Council said you | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
are a bit like the terminator and he expects you to be bad. | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
That is one of the kinder things people have | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
I do not really think I am like the terminator. | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
For a start, Arnold Schwarzenegger is a | :05:04. | :05:05. | |
I have had a wonderful, wonderful 12 years. | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
It has been a lot of fun and I have really enjoyed it. | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
It is time to say job done and move on. | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
That is right for me and it is right for | :05:15. | :05:16. | |
And that is the end of politics for Douglas Carswell? | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
The family of a man who died in the care of a mental health | :05:21. | :05:28. | |
trusts in this region, say funding cuts are to blame. | :05:29. | :05:37. | |
Neil Jewell had schizophrenia and died in 2014. An inquest found that | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
neglect contributed to his death. Neil Jewell's family back | :05:43. | :05:49. | |
in Norfolk, packing up been living out of during | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
the three week inquest. They have had to wait years | :05:53. | :06:04. | |
to have his story heard. The 42-year-old had paranoid | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
schizophrenia, living independently he was visited weekly by a care | :06:08. | :06:09. | |
worker he knew well but when the trust needed to save | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
money, that changed. He wasn't seen for nine months | :06:14. | :06:14. | |
and ran out of medication. This started a chain of events | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
that led to his death. Against usual policy, | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
he was placed in a private nursing The staff there could not cope, | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
so he was restrained and There he was tranquillised | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
and neither his heart At the mental health unit the next | :06:30. | :06:37. | |
day, he had a cardiac arrest. Having to sit by his | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
bedside holding his hand off the life-support | :06:43. | :06:56. | |
was just awful and just | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
watched him die again. It really affected us quite badly | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
and you just cannot take in what has happened and just | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
to let him go like that was awful. The family is pleased the inquest | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
recognised both neglect and cost When they make these | :07:10. | :07:11. | |
life changing, as it happened, reorganisations, | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
it is the people that | :07:17. | :07:17. | |
must be at the centre of these decisions and | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
The Norfolk and Suffolk foundation trust says it... | :07:21. | :07:33. | |
It says it has already improved training but the | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
family wants those in charge to acknowledge the consequences of | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
More than 300 people have attended a public meeting | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
What happens on the site of the Old Cottage hospital. | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
A community group is hoping to buy it and build low cost homes before | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
To decide the future of this old hospital. | :07:59. | :08:25. | |
Standing vacant for two years, they want to stop this | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
hospital being sold for development and hope | :08:29. | :08:29. | |
it can be bought by the | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
It would be a tragedy if this building was | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
turned into second homes or market homes for residencies here because | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
this town really needs new business, needs | :08:41. | :08:42. | |
new people to join the | :08:43. | :08:44. | |
community and what we would like to do is to turn | :08:45. | :08:55. | |
this into a business hub or a community hop. | :08:56. | :08:57. | |
Another option is affordable homes, which | :08:58. | :08:59. | |
The range of prices can be anything from | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
254 for a small one-bedroom flat up to the house behind us | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
which is beyond the market at ?2.57 million. | :09:08. | :09:09. | |
No one knows how much the hospital is worth | :09:10. | :09:11. | |
but on the open market it could go for a ?1 million or more. | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
Tonight, they announced a bid had been | :09:17. | :09:18. | |
submitted to the NHS and asked if second home | :09:19. | :09:20. | |
owners would be able to | :09:21. | :09:21. | |
dig deep and raise the money but will they? | :09:22. | :09:34. | |
I should not say this but I might be shamed into it. | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
We have a place here which was meant to | :09:38. | :09:39. | |
A lot of them went to second home owners who | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
We need to have a library and many to have | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
Do not underestimate Southport people. | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
The few members of the public looking through those final plans. | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
The NHS say the word get the best value from the site. | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
These guys have still got a long way to go. | :10:02. | :10:03. | |
A lot of money needs to be raised, even if | :10:04. | :10:05. | |
Coming up now the weather with Alex, but form the rest | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
Good evening. More clouds across the region tonight. Not as cold as it | :10:11. | :10:20. | |
was last night. The thickest cloud could produce light rain or drizzle. | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
Some clear into roles. Lows of five Celsius. Those temperatures will | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
recover by the end of the night. Tomorrow, a fairly settled pattern. | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
This weather system coming down from the north will bring cooler here for | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
the weekend. Tomorrow, despite the cloud cover, it should be warm. | :10:40. | :10:47. | |
Highs of 16 Celsius. A lot of cloud generally and the bright spell or | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
sunshine. The winds will be fresh through the day and switching | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
Roundtree north-westerly direction. That will bring cooler a for the | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
weekend. week for much of the UK and for more | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
about that and the UK outlook, Helen Willetts. | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
The sunshine make such a difference this time of year, only 12 or so | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
degrees under the cloud today but 19 in eastern Scotland not far away | :11:17. | :11:18. | |
from St Andrews. Also in | :11:19. | :11:19. |