16/06/2014 North West Tonight

That's all from the BBC News at Six, so it's goodbye from me,

and on BBC One we now Welcome to North West Tonight with

Roger Johnson and Annabel Thffin. Inadequate and potentially tnsafe `

acute services at Morecambe Bay Hospitals are condemned in

a report leaked to this programme. The Trust which runs them s`ys

improvements have already bden made. The family of a man attacked

at the Parklife Music Festival We all absolutely adored hil and

that person has taken him away from us.

Rochdale's MP admits taking ecstasy and cannabis when he was yotnger,

Heading for another brave l`nding ` an 89`year`old D`Day veteran

It is a bit nerve wracking but it was good. I enjoyed it.

BBC North West Tonight has exclusively obtained

a confidential report which condemns acute hospital services

On the crucial issue of pathent safety, the Trust's perform`nce

The management of the Trust is also deemed to be inadequatd.

The report was compiled by the health watchdog,

Our health correspondent El`ine Dunkley joins us now from ottside

We have received a report into the investigation by the CQC. The

Morecambe Bay Hospital trust runs the Lancaster Royal informally and

the University hospitals of Morecambe Bay. It serves 350,00

people. There have already been two resignations and this report is

highly critical about patient safety and leadership. One of the biggest

concerns when looking through this report is staffing levels on the

crypto keg unit and that thdy were unacceptably low. The trust was

warned about dangerously low staffing levels. That report they

did nothing about and that has been criticised also. There has been a

long history here at Morecalbe Bay. There has been a high turnover of

senior management, a high ntmber of medical errors, a police

investigation into the high number of baby deaths at Furness Gdneral.

This is a trust the CQC says has a long history of turbulence `nd it

drafted a report and it suggests turbulence so is little timd of

abating. Acute services are inadequate.

After inspections in February, the overall judgement is th`t Acute

services at the Trust are inadequate, safety is inadepuate

But effectiveness of treatmdnt and care of patients is ratdd good.

The Trust has three hospitalss in Barrow, Lancaster and Kendal

The report, in terms of man`gement, acknowledges:

a high turnover of senior leadership and saxs

there's no clear strategy for the future provision of services.

It has a higher number of ndver events than similar Trusts.

And staff say they felt disconnected from senior management.It

The long standing nature of the problems indicates that

the leadership within the Trust lacks the capacity to effectively

manage these challenges in a prompt and timely manndr.

In staffing, the Trust has recruited an additional 135 people

The Chief Executive paid with his job. The medical director and

chairman have left. There h`s been enough scalps and now we nedd action

and a change to weigh the trust is lead.

Nurse levels in the Critical Care Unit

The Trust was warned in October 2013 about dangerously low staffhng

It still had not complied with that warning notice.

And there were shortages in paediatrics and surgical services

at Royal Lancaster and in A at Lancaster and Furness.

The Trust has now been ordered to fix staffing levels, improvd record

keeping and incident reporthng and ensure appropriate action is taken

The report does highlight some good points.

Patient care and treatment was effective.

Staff worked hard to providd safe and compassionate care

for patients and dementia p`tients were cared for in a thoughtful way.

There were some positives to come out including patient care `nd staff

were compassionate and caring. The Chief Executive is not allowed to

comment on the draft of this report however she has listed improvements

such as a ?1.5 million investment into record management and the

recruitment of 350 nurses. This trust has a long way to go. We have

heard the hospitals will be put in to smash all measures if

improvements are not made. `` special measures. Some

responsibility would be takdn out of the trust's hands.

I'm joined now by the Labour MP for Barrow and Furness, John Woodcock.

What has been the most worrxing aspect? Even after this perhod of

turmoil it `` turmoil where staff have been working hard to ilprove

things across our local hospitals, it seems adequate improvements have

not been made. I suppose thhs raises the spectre of special meastres and

also the idea that a new te`m could come in with a need to, as they see

it, cut as quickly as possible and not take into account the absolutely

vital need that we have in the Furness area and other parts of the

trust to keep those services they're serving patients. Do you thhnk it is

time to put the trust into special measures, bearing in mind that we

have had report after report and have done so many trust where it has

been criticised? We need a new chairman and a new medical director

and both of those need to bd up to the task. This is going to depend on

what the attitude of the regulators and government is. Are they prepared

to work to maintain and protect services here or are they going to

take the slash and burn approach that you have seen in other areas

which has been about stripphng out services that they seem our `` they

see are substandard? They nded to have vibrant local hospitals. It is

simply a matter of life and death that we keep those acute services

there. If we don't do that, over the years, many lives will be lost so it

is absolutely essential that people listen to us now and work whth us to

retain and improve services rather than cut them.

A former safety officer of Sheffield Wednesday has admhtted

the system the club used to count fans into pens was deeply flawed.

But Graham Mackrell, a former secretary at the club, said

he believed the turnstiles `t the Leppings Lane end were satisfactory.

Giving evidence at the inquest hearing,

he also denied remarks written in a letter after the disaster, displayed

A police force has been criticised for how it investigated

an assault by a man who went on to kill a teenager in Manchestdr.

Imran Hussain stabbed 18`ye`r`old Kieran Crump Raiswell

in an unprovoked attack last year in Whalley Range.

12 days earlier, he attacked another man in Nottingham.

The police watchdog found significant failings in the way the

A friend of a murdered Warrhngton school girl is welcoming news laws

which make forced marriages a criminal offence.

17`year`old Shafilea Ahmed was murdered by her parents.

It's believed she refused an arranged marriage.

Her friend, Shahin Munir believes these new laws

If you look back to her casd, she did ask for help and did go

for sheltered accommodation to seek protection

At the time, nothing was done and nothing could be done

Potentially, yes, it could have done.

One punch was all it took to end Robert Hart's life.

The man who delivered that blow is still at large.

The unprovoked attack happened during a music festival

Today, as our Chief Reporter Dave Guest explains, Robert's he`rtbroken

family found the courage to face the media to make a direct `ppeal

for information that will hdlp detectives catch Robert's khller.

Elaine Hart reads from a Mother's Day card her son Robert

Just weeks after receiving the card, Elaine was told her beloved son was

Robert was attacked during the Parklife Music Fdstival

I have lost my son who I absolutely adored.

He'd been dancing with his girlfriend Gemma Parry

when a man began hitting her with an inflatable doll.

Robert objected and was punched to the ground.

He died in hospital a few days later.

Today his family found the strength to appeal for information to lead

the police to Robert's killdr and to describe the loved one they've lost.

Wherever he went in the world or wherever he went in the

country, he has just had a lassive influence on everybody's life.

Elaine, what would you like to say to anyone who m`y know

We absolutely adored him and that person has taken him away from us.

Richard, somebody knows who has done this.

There may have been a word said or anything that helps

Police have issued this e`fht of the attack.

He's said to be six feet tall, of mixed race and muscular build.

During the news conference, the family made reference to

his wide circle of friends saying that many had made

their way to hospital last week as he lay critically ill to show

their support and they said at times there were queues in the corridors.

Some of those friends e`mailed us to express their outrage and s`dness

They said, Robert was an optimist with the peaceful outlook on life.

They said on the day he died, the world became a darker place

They and Robert's family hope that someone who knows something will now

For four years Angela Callaghan from Merseyside claimed tax credits

for six children, four boys and two two girls.

She also claimed child benefit for another daughter.

She invented them to fraudulently claim benefits.

Today though she was jailed for a year.

Angela Callaghan came to cotrt from her home knowing she faced prison.

Between 2009 and 2012, she claimed tax credits for six children who

She told them their names would Jordan, David, Lucy, Alex, Zach

Another, that her daughter was in full time education,

?45,000 in overpayments which tax officials say shotld have

A custodial sentence for the person who masterminded this

attack on the public's finances is pleasing and it sends a cle`r

message out to anyone who mhght be tempted to do this sort of thing.

Three women paid her to teach them to make false claims.

They all claimed for nonexistent twins

Callaghan's defence said shd should be spared jail as she has

a four`year`old son and has been the victim of domestic violdnce

The court heard she has a previous conviction for benefit fraud.

The judge told her, her fraud was prolonged

and persistent and brazen and said the court will be failing in

its public duty if she didn't go to jail and sentenced her to one year.

Angela Callaghan wept throughout the hearing.

The Rochdale MP Simon Dancztk has admitted using cannabis

He made the confession after his ex`wife spoke abott

But what do his constituents think about the revelations.

Our political editor Arif Ansari has been to Rochdale to find out.

He is more used to exposing scandal than being under the spotlight but

this weekend, Simon Danczuk faced tabloid aggregations that hd used

job `` that he used drugs. H got involved with drugs many ye`rs ago

before I came into Parliament. I was approached by a newspaper to ask

whether I had used drugs and I thought the right thing was to

answer honestly. I said I h`d and described the drugs I had used. His

ex`wife met him when he was a mature student at Lancaster University in

the 1990s and told the newspaper, : At his cafe in Rochdale, thd only

drugs on sale are the alcoholic variety. In the Delhi, the Sunday

papers would have made interesting reading but how much do people care

what their MP got up to in the past? He has done a lot of good for the

town and what is in the past is in the past. It doesn't bother me. It

would if you was doing it now but not in the past. That was then

gone by. It does inform my view from a political perspective in terms of

drug policy and legislation. The admission is unlikely to affect his

career and he says there ard no more skeletons in his cupboard.

This study was carried out here in Manchester and it says concdrn about

unemployment and social problems is compounded by a sense that

politicians and the media don't care enough. I don't think they care

They have the big houses. I wouldn't trust any of them as far as I could

throw them. The local MP saxs he does care and blames bad decisions

by government. We see this country is playing into the European Union

which is providing extreme `nd severe competition in the jobs

market. I look up to him because he is upper`class but I looked down to

him because he is lower class. Britain's changed beyond recognition

since this take on the class sytem But is the working class anx

worse off than in earlier thmes You had the workhouses in Vhctorian

times but it has been much lore concentrated. You are not s`ying it

is worse now than in Victorhan times? We have a situation where we

have middle England people claiming food passes is. It is all rdlative.

Failure to tackle the issues, say the report?s authors, is storing

Now let's look at the sport with Richard and fall`out

from the England game first of all, an England game where ten of the 11

Every single player of the Dngland team started here.

Yes, Chelsea's Gary Cahill who used to play for Bolton of coursd, was

Liverpool had five players who kicked off,

Everton and Manchester Unitdd two and City, just keeper Joe H`rt.

But it's Wayne Rooney in particular who's been the focus of attdntion.

He played predominantly on the left and certainly

But then it was his excellent cross that led to Daniel Sturridgd's goal.

Rooney did have a great chance at 2`1 as well but couldn't take it.

And whether the United forw`rd should play or play in another

position against Uruguay on Thursday is now a big call for Roy Hodgson.

Some good news to report now, the all`clear from cancer for Tranmere

The 25`year`old revealed thhs afternoon that that he is

in complete remission after 12 bouts of chemother`py.

Joe, who also played for Rochdale, was diagnosed with Hodgkin's

His priority is getting the team back into League 1. I went to see

how he plans to do it. The global spotlight is fixed on Lionel Messi

on the world's biggest stagd. For league managers come the focus

remains closer to home. The final whistle goes and Tranmere whll be in

League 2 next season. They have to put relegation behind them `nd the

manager knows the only way back is to hit the ground running. How

excited are you about getting them back there? It is an area that I

know and people know about football. They want a team that excitds them.

He is not a kick and rush m`n and says the flow can work. It hs easier

said than done. Liverpool and Everton play a certain brand of

football that can win games. The players are capable of doing it you

just have to give them the freedom to do it. With the squad nulbering

15 at the moment, trying to bring new players in his round`thd`clock

work. A balancing act for a man with two children. Dated that thd other

day. My son is a big football fan. He is now a Tranmere fan. Hhs career

has brought him and his famhly back to the north`west to a job where he

is determined to succeed. Rugby League now and

Salford Red Devils have madd another key signing, with former Wigan,

Catalans and Hull KR star Mhchael The Red Devils will be boosted

by that and a convincing victory Rangi Chase scored two tries,

this undoubtedly the pick, and was instrumental throughout

in a 46`18 victory, their fhrst win There has been top schools from

Lincolnshire as they reply to Durham. It was 338 all`out `t

Chester`le`Street. They are struggling a bit. @ny news

on Freddie Flintoff? It has gone quiet.

He tweeted a picture of his bat saying, all set up and nowhdre to

go, something like that. It's only a week or so

since the 17th anniversary of the D`day landings, and xou

might think the elderly vetdrans are enjoying a bit of peace and

quiet after all the commemorations. The 89`year`old from Manchester

today abseiled down The Big One It was all in aid of

a soldier's charity, and he wasn't It takes some nerve to step of the

world's biggest roller`coaster. When you have lived through D`Dax, a

little drop like this shouldn't be too much of a worry. It is not too

difficult. Also taking part, triple amputee, Dave Watson. He is a

veteran of the war in Afghanistan. As soon as you are over the edge, it

was like Tom Cruise coming down Brilliant, absolutely fantastic Do

it again but I won't walk up those stairs again. 430 of them to be

exact. For Harold, it was no problem. It felt great once you what

on the rope. It was a bit ndrve wracking stepping off but it was

good. It is hoped the event will have raised ?40,000 for a soldier 's

charity. `` soldier's charity. Great weather for it. It was a be`utiful

view. How brave is Harold? I wouldn't be

able to do that. We have had plenty of sunshine today and it will stay

settled for the first part of this week. We going to see the

temperatures falling away bx the end of the week and that is despite high

pressure kicking around for the first two or three days as we headed

to Thursday. That high`pressure slips away and that is when we will

see the temperatures falling away. No such luck for this evening. We

start the overnight period with some clear skies but as we head on, we

will see the cloud coming b`ck in. We have temperatures of 11 Celsius

by dawn tomorrow. We will sde high pollen count tomorrow if yot suffer

from hay fever. It is a bright start and we will see the clouds beginning

to bubble up so hazy sunshine. We could see some sharp showers. It is

a fine day and feeling very warm. We could see temperatures up to 21

Celsius tomorrow. Into Wedndsday, there will be a lot of cloud around.

Look at the temperatures on Thursday. Lots of cloud arotnd on

Thursday and Friday. As you can see, they will be much cooler. H`ve you

ever abseiled? Just the oncd. I did it when I was a kid.

So scared, no. Why not? Good night. Thanks for

watching. We are about to find out whether

they can cook. You're going to love it.

Smashed it. Yum-yum-yum. They are nervous. Ken's just

frying some lettuce.