:00:07. > :00:12.A former builder from Leeds, who today lost his fight to change the
:00:13. > :00:15.law on assisted suicide, has called the decision cruel and barb`ric
:00:16. > :00:21.Paul Lamb was paralysed in ` car crash and is in constant pahn.
:00:22. > :00:24.He wanted doctors to be allowed to help him end his life.
:00:25. > :00:26.But although the Supreme Court ruled agahnst him,
:00:27. > :00:31.it did urge parliament to examine the law, as Spencer Stokes reports.
:00:32. > :00:34.Should a doctor be allowed to help Paul Lamb take his own life
:00:35. > :00:39.24 years ago, the former buhlder was paralysed from the neck down.
:00:40. > :00:45.He fears that the day will come when his life is no longer worth living.
:00:46. > :00:48.Since last year, he's been fighting a legal battle to have the ban on
:00:49. > :00:55.The Supreme Court began hearing the case last December,
:00:56. > :00:58.and today seven out of nine judges rejected the appeal.
:00:59. > :01:03.I don't deserve to be punished like this.
:01:04. > :01:12.I'm now at the stage where there is anger with me because it is
:01:13. > :01:18.But many doctors are extremdly uneasy about any change to
:01:19. > :01:24.the assisted suicide law, and they have welcomed today's ruling.
:01:25. > :01:26.The Supreme Court have made the correct decision and it's in
:01:27. > :01:32.This is clearly a very diffhcult and emotive area,
:01:33. > :01:38.If the line in the sand movds, and it's a massive change to
:01:39. > :01:40.the criminal law, then people could become coerced, encouraged to think
:01:41. > :01:45.If they are seen as a burden, as costing too much money.
:01:46. > :01:47.It's difficult to compare to other jurisdictions, but in
:01:48. > :01:49.Washington State, where asshsted suicide is legal, 61 percent
:01:50. > :01:53.of people who've gone for assisted suicide have said that they've done
:01:54. > :02:03.It now seems this will becole a matter for MPs to decide on,
:02:04. > :02:16.the highest court in the cotntry thinks it's time for elected
:02:17. > :02:19.politicians to give the fin`l ruling on the right to die. Previots court
:02:20. > :02:23.rulings have maintained that assisted suicide is a matter for
:02:24. > :02:25.Parliament, but today's Supreme Court jtdgement
:02:26. > :02:31.goes a step further, suggesting that MPs tackle this thorny issud.
:02:32. > :02:39.Paul's case may now become a matter of political debatd.
:02:40. > :02:42.Doncaster Council is set to give up the residential
:02:43. > :02:46.The cabinet voted this afternoon to farm its remaining seven holes out
:02:47. > :02:49.to a charitable trust, or close them all together `nd move
:02:50. > :02:53.more than one hundred residdnts to private care providers.
:02:54. > :02:57.At an emotional meeting campaigners called the decision shameful.
:02:58. > :03:03.Outside the council offices in Doncaster, a silent protdst.
:03:04. > :03:11.What is proposed today is not in the best interest and welfare
:03:12. > :03:23.Closing three day care centres for adults with learning
:03:24. > :03:27.difficulties and ridding itself of the seven remaining residential
:03:28. > :03:35.That would affect people like Mick and Irene and their dad.
:03:36. > :03:40.When our dad is safe we know we can go to bed at night and sleep.
:03:41. > :03:51.I don't want to move because I know everybody thdre.
:03:52. > :04:00.They're set up in favour of people like me.
:04:01. > :04:03.Doncaster is only the latest authority to have to wrestld with
:04:04. > :04:08.the question, how much should we pay for care and who should provide it?
:04:09. > :04:12.The meeting became heated when councillors voted to close
:04:13. > :04:17.As for the residential homes, a charity may take them over
:04:18. > :04:21.If not, they will shut too, and the people who live
:04:22. > :04:31.We are saying we are actually making a future`proof service,
:04:32. > :04:35.providing for the most vulndrable, given that we have
:04:36. > :04:38.an extended number of years where we have growth in the population.
:04:39. > :04:43.We are future`proofing servhces for the most vulnerable.
:04:44. > :04:46.The campaigners say they ard now considering mounting a legal
:04:47. > :04:55.A man has been charged with the murder of a man who was beaten
:04:56. > :04:58.to death while on his way home from work in Sheffield.
:04:59. > :05:01.Simon Holdsworth's body was found in a field in the Hackenthorpe area
:05:02. > :05:05.Shaun Richard Wainwright, who's 45, will appear before Sheffield
:05:06. > :05:11.Police are appealing for witnesses after a minibus containing six
:05:12. > :05:14.children, their parents and another adult, crashed into the central
:05:15. > :05:20.It happened on the northbound carriageway between junctions 3
:05:21. > :05:25.The 33 year old mother of the children, who are aged betwden four
:05:26. > :05:28.months and nine ears old, stffered potentially life altering injuries A
:05:29. > :05:35.four year old boy and a nindteen year old man were also injured.
:05:36. > :05:38.A mother who lost both her hands and feet is to be given the UK's
:05:39. > :05:42.first ever double hand transplant at the Leeds General Infirm`ry.
:05:43. > :05:45.44 year old Corinne Hutton, from Scotland, has undergond
:05:46. > :05:49.a series of tests to ensure she is suitable for the operation, which
:05:50. > :05:53.Last year the Leeds team successfully carried
:05:54. > :05:56.out the country's first ever single hand transplant.
:05:57. > :06:05.Corrine says the operation will change hdr life.
:06:06. > :06:08.I'm excited about the fact that I will wake up with hands that work.
:06:09. > :06:11.I don't need to zip them on or attach them.
:06:12. > :06:22.There's a good chance of having sensation back.
:06:23. > :06:39.Cloudy at times and there whll be some sunshine around. High pressure
:06:40. > :06:44.is still just about in charge, that this system will bring rain from the
:06:45. > :06:47.south during Friday. Sunny spells and scattered showers over the
:06:48. > :06:52.weekend. The cloud has been sick in some western areas this evening The
:06:53. > :07:01.enough to produce some spots of rain. Temperature is coming in
:07:02. > :07:05.around 10 Celsius. Thursday, cloudy times especially in the West. There
:07:06. > :07:09.could be a little patchy rahn showing up across the Yorkshire
:07:10. > :07:13.Dales. Elsewhere it should be fine and that cloud will bring the best
:07:14. > :07:18.of the sunshine towards the east coast. A lovely day in Scarborough.
:07:19. > :07:25.Temperatures in the range of 15 to 18 Celsius. Turning wax frol the
:07:26. > :07:32.South on Friday. Saturday is showery but it does improve as we hdad into
:07:33. > :07:33.Sunday. `` turning wet. Herd is the national summary.
:07:34. > :07:43.unsettled and there would be heavy and thundery downpours around. Good
:07:44. > :07:47.evening. A little bit later than usual. The weather over the next
:07:48. > :07:52.couple of days will change. Let me show you the satellite picture. You
:07:53. > :08:00.can see the cloud streaming across the Atlantic. This weather front
:08:01. > :08:02.Weller upset the weather across -- will upset the weather in the