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said it had been bought by an anonymous bidder.

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Good evening. Helena Farrell was a troubled teenager,

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failed by the professionals who should have helped her.

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An official report by Cumbria's Safeguarding Children

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Board says her case and the failings identified mirror a similar tragedy

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Our Chief Reporter Dave Guest has more.

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Yesterday, a coroner concluded that 15`year`old

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Helena Farrell killed herself, but he couldn't be sure she meant to.

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Today, a report outlined the shortcomings

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of a system that failed to protect her.

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Cumbria's Safeguarding Children Board said it was

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"baffling" that professionals failed to recognise the mounting evidence

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She told a teacher she had bulimia, she told

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a school nurse she had been sexually assaulted, she took an overdose

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But Cumbria's Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, CAMHS, took

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The day after her first appointment, she was dead.

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We hope that Helena's story will inspire professionals and

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non`professional people to reflect on how we all deal with young people

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In fact, today's report says school`based professionals failed to

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recognise the escalating evhdence that Helena was at real risk

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of suicide and it says that Childhood Adolescent Mental Health

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Service was guilty of poor practice, had a lack of structure

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and was considered not fit for purpose, even by its own staff.

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But one charity, Papyrus, which specialises in preventing

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adolescent suicide, says such problems are not unique to Cumbria.

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This is a problem for the whole of the country.

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More and more young people `re being faced with long waiting lists

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But she wasn't the first person to be let down by the service.

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Three years before she died, ten`year`old Harry Hucknall took his

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A safeguarding board recognhsed significant failings

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We did make changes following the sad death of Harry, but what we

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now recognise is those changes were not far`reaching enough.

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We need to make wider changds and have significant investlent

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Those investments include t`king on additional specialist st`ff

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in the hope that people such as Helena can be seen more prolptly.

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The Rochdale MP Simon Dancztk says the former Conservative Homd

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Secretary, Leon Brittan, should make public what he knew about

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allegations of paedophiles operating in Westminster in the 1980s.

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Mr Danczuk was appearing before the Commons Home Aff`irs

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Committee in relation to thd former Liberal MP Sir Cyril Smith.

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Our political editor Arif Ansari sent this report from Westmhnster.

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Today Simon Danczuk shifted the focus on Cyril Smith from what he

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may have done in Rochdale to what he may have done here at Westmhnster,

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with hints of a cover`up among leading politicians, in particular,

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Mr Danczuk said that Cyril Smith may have been part of a network

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of people, protecting each other. He said that Cyril Smith had abused

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children at a guesthouse in South London with other

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In neither case did Mr Danczuk name any of these individuals.

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He did say that back in the 198 s, the Littleborough MP Geoffrdy

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Dickens had written a dossidr of these politicians,

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and handed it into the then Home Secretary Sir Leon Brittan and

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Mr Danczuk wanted to know what they had done with that informathon.

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I do think it would be helpful for Sir Leon Brittan to share

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his knowledge of how he dealt with these allegations that were made

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Well, that's an interesting questhon.

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We know that it arrived at the Home Office, but we don't know where

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It has also emerged today that Cyril Smith attempted to put some pressure

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Two freelance journalists working for the corporation were looking

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into certain MPs' private lhves and Cyril Smith wrote to thd then

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Director General Charles Curran saying he wanted to be assured that

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"your expenditure is careful, wise and useful," hints there,

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He also wrote to the then Home Secretary Merlyn Rees saying

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that he wanted him to ensurd the BBC wasn't simply muck`raking.

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It's not clear what Cyril Slith s motivation was here,

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because he was not one of those being investigated, although he may

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have feared that he could h`ve been pulled into that, perhaps.

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One other development here, and that is that Simon Danczuk told

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the committee today that Greater Manchester Police are going

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to arrest people imminently as their investigation into what

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The former Chief Executive of Cumbria County Council w`s paid

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more than ?400,000 when she retired last year.

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Details of Jill Stannard's pay`off have just come to lhght

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The County Council says it's saving more than half`a`million potnds

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a year through restructuring, but says reducing staff numbers is

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Thousands of tram passengers in Greater Manchester are f`cing

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a second day of travel disrtption after weekend engineering works

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There are no services running through Victoria again todax.

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Replacement buses have been provided.

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Metrolink and Network Rail have apologised.

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There are fresh warnings thhs evening about the dangers

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of quicksand in Morecambe B`y after a teenage boy became trapped

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The 13`year`old had been on a fishing trip with his family

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He was pulled to safety by fire fighters who were

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The rescue was captured by an amateur cameraman.

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It must have been absolutelx terrifying for the lad, there must

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have been times when he thotght I'm not going to get out of here.

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And it wasn't long before the tide was turning,

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That's it from me, thanks for staying up to watch.

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Well, it has been another very lovely day.

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Tomorrow could be even bettdr, make the most of it if you can, because

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through Thursday and Friday, we have some wet weather, and by thd

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But back to the moment to h`nd, our evening showers have didd away

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and it should be quiet from here on through the night.

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Rurally, there could be a p`tch of mist when you get up first thing

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tomorrow morning and the ovdrnight temperatures, in the countrxside,

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eight or nine, for towns and cities, it is warm again,

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temperatures 13 and 14 degrdes for the most part. Tomorrow,

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a very nice summer's day, plenty of sunshine from the word go.

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In fact, for many places, through the morning, there will be

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The breeze is light initially, it changes direction

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as you go through the day and once you get past lunchtime

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you will see a little bit of fair`weather cloud floating around,

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Your national weather forec`st follows, but I leave you with

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the outlook for the next few days. Good night.

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more cloud on Friday. None of this survives into the weekend, some rain

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around on Saturday. It's certainly been a feast of

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football again. The temperature in S?o Paulo was much the same as we

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had in Glasgow and Bristol. Here, temperatures are set to climb higher

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in the next few days. Tonight, rather than Brazil, it's more likely

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to be chilly. In rural areas we re looking at low single figures for a

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while. Clear skies overnight. It is setting us up for a sunny start to

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Wednesday. There will be changes coming in from the north-west. The

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breeze will freshen

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