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Good evening. A man whose four`year`old granddaughter died | :00:07. | :00:11. | |
after a crash at level crossing is calling for half`barriers to be | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
outlawed. Emma Lifsey from Haxey in North Lincolnshire was in a car with | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
her grandmother when they accidentally drove past warning | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
lights, and the barrier, on to rail tracks where they were hit by a | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
train. Now, a day after the inquest, Peter Jarret has been speaking to | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
Sarah Corker. Emma's favourite teddy bear forms | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
part of the Lifsey family's memorial to the four`year`old. Her | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
grandfather makes frequent visits here and hopes the tributes can act | :00:39. | :00:47. | |
a warning to others. It is a heightened sense of danger. I do | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
think it is a dangerous place. Emma's grandmother, Diane Jarrett, | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
was driving her home when their car crashing through the barriers and | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
was hit by a train. The East Midlands service had been travelling | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
from Lincoln towards Doncaster. Mrs Jarett was driving from the village | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
of Haxey, and had made the journey over Beech Hill crossing near | :01:06. | :01:12. | |
Finigley hundreds of times before. She suddenly saw the barrier. She | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
says that she thought, that is too late, that is too late. She did not | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
see the train. There was this explosion and the car was ripped to | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
bits. An investigation into the accident found that the glare of the | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
sun could've made it difficult for Diane to see the warning lights and | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
a half barriers and that the lights themselves were less than half as | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
bright as they should have been. And it raised wider questions about | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
safety at crossings. Things could have been done that could have | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
stopped this tragedy and things can be done now to stop other tragedies | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
in the future. That has to be the focus of Network Rail. There are six | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
and a half thousand level crossings in the UK. In the past five years | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
there have been 44 deaths on those crossings. Network Rail say they've | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
invested more than ?100 million to make improvements. Despite this, 450 | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
automatic half barriers are still in place. Emma's grandfather told me he | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
believes there's an element of risk at every crossing. I would like half | :02:16. | :02:25. | |
barrier crossings to be outlawed, a thing of the past. Proper, full | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
barrier crossings. I think they have got to make them so conspicuous, | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
that whatever the weather conditions prevail, if it is down, you know | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
that it is down. Do you think that will save lives? Yes, I think it | :02:41. | :02:47. | |
will. Her grandparents have planted roses named after Emma in the very | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
place she loved to play. They hope their pain and loss can some way | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
lead to greater safety at crossings. We will never forget Emma. She will | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
always be four years old. Peter Jarratt, Emma's grand`father, | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
ending that report by Sarah Corker. Scunthorpe hospital has apologised | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
after claims were made that a patient with learning disabilities | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
was left on a ward without food and drink for two days. Managers say | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
they are investigating what went wrong and that they're sorry for any | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
distress caused. The main bridge connecting east and | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
west Hull got stuck open for almost an hour during rush hour this | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
morning. Engineers were brought in to fix the electrical problem on | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
Myton swing bridge. The wind turbine company, Dong | :03:31. | :03:50. | |
MPs, if they're found to have broken the rules. The Brigg and Goole MP, | :03:51. | :03:52. | |
Andrew Percy is supporting a system where people can band together to | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
force a referendum over an MP's future, instead of waiting | :03:57. | :03:58. | |
potentially years for a general election to come round. Campaigners | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
claim it could help avoid a repeat of the expenses scandal, as our | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
Political Editor, Tim Iredale reports. | :04:05. | :04:11. | |
The recent resignation of Culture Secretary, Maria Miller, over her | :04:12. | :04:13. | |
expenses claims brought back bitter improved little since the expenses | :04:14. | :06:17. | |
scandal. Many believe Parliament could do much more to put its own | :06:18. | :06:25. | |
house in order. This is one of the stories being | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
debated on the Sunday Politics. That's this weekend at 11 o'clock on | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
BBC One. Let's get the weather now, with | :06:33. | :06:33. | |
Keeley Donovan. Good evening, it is already very | :06:34. | :06:46. | |
chilly out there, but a finite with some clear spells. Generally try | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
with a long, clear spells. Temperature is low enough for some | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
frost, so gardeners beware, two degrees, three degrees. Tomorrow, | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
plenty of sunshine, it will remain dry, long spells of sunshine with | :07:02. | :07:08. | |
more cloud from the West. Temperatures feeling pleasant in the | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
sunshine. Reaching 13 or 14 degrees, a bit cooler along the coast. Some | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
overnight rain into Sunday, so damp and cloudy. It will brighten up on | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
Monday but spells of sunshine and it will feel pleasant. | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
That is a scam we're back tomorrow, goodbye. | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
the rest of the weekend. Now look at the Outlook with Nick Miller. | :07:33. | :07:39. | |
Neuer-macro don't worry, this is not the repeat. It is live. This is the | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
forecast you are more likely to see in January than May, but this is a | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
cold night for the time of year. We have got some cloud coming into the | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
West, stopping the temperature going down too far. It may produce light | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
rain later in the night, maybe a rogue shower from patchy cloud in | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
East Anglia. For most, dry, clear, temperatures are on the way down and | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
will end up lower than this in the coldest rural spots by morning. -4 | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
in rural Scotland in the coldest moral spots in southern England, so | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
gardeners take note, frost for some of us are begins. What about the | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
rest of the weekend? High pressure is here as it begins. You may think, | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
great, settled weather, it does protect the south and east of the UK | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
but Atlantique weather fronts coming to the north and west, giving some | :08:29. | :08:36. | |
rain at times. First, for tomorrow, it is a fine start. Chilly, a lot | :08:37. | :08:37. |