:00:12. > :00:16."Dysfunctional and not fit for purpose".
:00:17. > :00:19.That's how the father of a baby boy, who died in a Cumbrian hosphtal
:00:20. > :00:21.has described the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
:00:22. > :00:25.James Titcombe's comments come the day after the NMC
:00:26. > :00:31.struck off a midwife, who'd failed in the care
:00:32. > :00:37.Joshua Titcombe was born at Furness General in Barrow in 20 8.
:00:38. > :00:39.He died nine days later from a serious, but
:00:40. > :00:43.An enquiry found Lindsey Biggs failed in her care of Joshu`,
:00:44. > :00:46.causing him to lose a significant chance of survival.
:00:47. > :00:50.She and another midwife did not refer matters to a paediatrhcian
:00:51. > :00:53.as they should have done when they found Joshua
:00:54. > :00:57.The tribunal chairman Stuart Gray said Lindsey Biggs caused "`ctual
:00:58. > :01:01.harm" to Joshua and "emotional harm" to his mother.
:01:02. > :01:05.There was an "attitudinal problem" and a "lack of remorse".
:01:06. > :01:08.Just desperately sad and desperately frustrated and desperately `ngry
:01:09. > :01:13.with the NMC for letting thhs drag on for so very long.
:01:14. > :01:20.You know, Joshua's death was never investigated properly.
:01:21. > :01:23.Joshua was one of 11 babies and a mother to die after bding
:01:24. > :01:25.treated at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust
:01:26. > :01:32.This has been the Midwifery Council closing ranks, trying
:01:33. > :01:35.to protect its own people for far too long and without the tenacity
:01:36. > :01:39.of James and others I think we can speculate that we would not even
:01:40. > :01:41.have reached this point at all and that is
:01:42. > :01:46.While Lindsey Biggs was awaiting her hearing
:01:47. > :01:49.on the circumstances of Joshua's death, she was allowed to continue
:01:50. > :01:54.In June, following an investigation into the death of another
:01:55. > :01:56.baby earlier this year, Morecambe Bay Hosptials Trust
:01:57. > :02:03.It's also apologised for letting down patients.
:02:04. > :02:04.The NMC is a dysfunctional organisation that
:02:05. > :02:13.It is letting the very people that relied on it down and it sedms to be
:02:14. > :02:14.not capable of learning lessons for itself.
:02:15. > :02:20.I think it's time there was a root and branch review of the NMC.
:02:21. > :02:32.A Nursing and Midwifery Council spokesman said...
:02:33. > :02:40.Mark Edwardson, BBC North Wdst Tonight.
:02:41. > :02:43.Earlier, I spoke to Doctor Bill Kirkup, who led the inquiry
:02:44. > :02:46.into the Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust.
:02:47. > :02:50.I asked him about what he thought about the delays addressing what
:02:51. > :02:51.happened. It is very disappointing and it must
:02:52. > :02:54.be awfully difficult for the relatives who are concerned
:02:55. > :02:56.in all of these things. One is that it took a long time
:02:57. > :03:01.for these things to come My investigation wasn't
:03:02. > :03:05.commissioned until 2013, so that is five years down the line
:03:06. > :03:08.anyway and then when we produced the report,
:03:09. > :03:14.one of the recommendations was these cases needed to be re-looked
:03:15. > :03:17.at and I'm afraid it's taken over one year for us to get
:03:18. > :03:25.to the position where in now. Do you think the nursing
:03:26. > :03:31.and midwifery Council needs to look at the way in which it
:03:32. > :03:34.conducts its own investigathons I think that there are prob`bly
:03:35. > :03:38.lessons to be learnt here and the way this has bden dealt
:03:39. > :03:41.with in the first place and the reason it has taken such
:03:42. > :03:45.a long time now and in terms of the way that they have rdported
:03:46. > :03:48.on what they have been doing. I would at the end of all
:03:49. > :03:53.of the cases that they are dealing with related to Morecambe B`y,
:03:54. > :03:56.I would expect them to do an external investigation and to
:03:57. > :03:59.report that in full in publhc. The trust which runs Furness General
:04:00. > :04:01.has apologised and it says ht will never let anyone down
:04:02. > :04:05.in the future as it did in the past. Are you confident that the changes
:04:06. > :04:08.you called for in your report I think the trust have made
:04:09. > :04:12.fantastic strides in implemdnting quite a challenging set
:04:13. > :04:14.of recommendations in the rdport. Obviously these things take a long
:04:15. > :04:18.time to see through and I wouldn't want to say that it is all done
:04:19. > :04:21.and dusted now, I don't belheve it is, but I think they are doing
:04:22. > :04:36.absolutely the right thing. Row police forces have been taking
:04:37. > :04:40.coordinated action against lodern slavery this week that exploits
:04:41. > :04:41.vulnerable people and forces have raided nail bars, car washes and
:04:42. > :04:44.suspected brothels. Our social affairs correspondent
:04:45. > :04:46.Clare Fallon has been following police and immigr`tion
:04:47. > :04:48.officers through the week One week it is a normal terraced
:04:49. > :04:54.house, the next men are calling Today it was police and immhgration
:04:55. > :04:59.officers investigating. All around are signs
:05:00. > :05:10.of what they have been Upstairs their phones const`ntly
:05:11. > :05:14.ring as men message asking for sex. They came to the UK to get
:05:15. > :05:20.jobs, they tell me, Are you being forced to do this
:05:21. > :05:26.or is it your choice? But it is not something
:05:27. > :05:30.most of us would choose We have agreed not to identhfy
:05:31. > :05:35.this police officer They say they are not
:05:36. > :05:41.here against their will I presume you don't take thdir word
:05:42. > :05:45.for it and you do background checks to make sure there is nothing
:05:46. > :05:55.more going on? Absolutely. What we have discovered
:05:56. > :06:01.today may form a small part of a larger picture. That larger picture
:06:02. > :06:04.is the focus of a week of action by police forces.
:06:05. > :06:06.Police forces are now targeting modern slavery and human
:06:07. > :06:08.trafficking in visits and r`ids across the region.
:06:09. > :06:10.Officers are going into bushnesses to look for the signs
:06:11. > :06:14.The officer leading this opdration told me it is a serious
:06:15. > :06:16.problem that is becoming a priority for police.
:06:17. > :06:17.People are found in horrendous states.
:06:18. > :06:21.They have limited supplies of food, water, access to health card,
:06:22. > :06:24.they are just exploited and treated like animals.
:06:25. > :06:27.In recent years there have been high-profile slavery
:06:28. > :06:32.Victims have been rescued from appalling situations.
:06:33. > :06:35.But for all those who get hdlp and get out, it is thought
:06:36. > :06:46.An investigation has been l`unched after a man was raped
:06:47. > :06:49.The incident happened in the early hours of yesterday
:06:50. > :06:54.The attacker is described as Asian, around 5ft 10ins tall and around 30
:06:55. > :07:00.years old with a medium build and dark black short hair.
:07:01. > :07:03.Police are appealing for anxone with any information
:07:04. > :07:10.An image of a suitcase, similar to the one found containing
:07:11. > :07:12.the burnt remains of a murddr victim in Derbyshire, has been
:07:13. > :07:16.The body was found inside the suitcase in a lay-by
:07:17. > :07:19.The man's head and limbs were missing.
:07:20. > :07:31.Final preparations are underway in Oldham ahead of the opening of a
:07:32. > :07:38.multi-million pound complex and cinema. In the historic town hall it
:07:39. > :07:43.is hoped that it will boost the town centre's economy. Although there is
:07:44. > :07:44.controversy that the council has used taxpayer's money to pax for the
:07:45. > :07:46.scheme. It's going to cost us
:07:47. > :07:49.about ?26 million but it wotld have cost us ?16 million for the next 25
:07:50. > :07:52.years just to leave it as it was and let it fall
:07:53. > :07:55.into further and further disrepair and as a council we didn't think
:07:56. > :07:58.that was the right thing to do For the first time in over 40 years,
:07:59. > :08:03.a ship was royally christendd Her Royal Highness Princess Anne
:08:04. > :08:06.officially named the giant 100,000-tonne container ship
:08:07. > :08:08.Atlantic Sea at Liverpool's It's one of several new ships
:08:09. > :08:19.in the Atlantic Princess Alexandra named a ship
:08:20. > :08:21.there in 1960, the last timd it occurred.
:08:22. > :08:23.And tributes have been paid today to Liverpool's celebrity hahrdresser
:08:24. > :08:25.and charity fund-raiser Herbert Howe, who died in the early
:08:26. > :08:28.hours of this morning after a long battle with cancer
:08:29. > :08:31.The owner of Herbert of Livdrpool appeared in a number of TV
:08:32. > :08:32.shows and briefly stood for Mayor of Liverpool.
:08:33. > :08:35.He also raised hundreds of thousands of pounds for charity.
:08:36. > :08:39.You knew when he walked into the room,
:08:40. > :08:42.not only the way he dressed but his whole persona
:08:43. > :09:15.Manchester United have gone top of their Europa League group
:09:16. > :09:18.after a convincing 4-1 victory over Fenerbahce.
:09:19. > :09:21.Summer signing Paul Pogba opened the scoring with this penalty,
:09:22. > :09:23.before netting the pick of the game's goals with thhs
:09:24. > :09:24.long distance effort just before half time.
:09:25. > :09:27.Former United player Robin Van Persie got one back
:09:28. > :09:30.Even the home supporters chdered the gold.
:09:31. > :09:43.Good evening to you. We are still in this static weather pattern as we
:09:44. > :09:45.head towards the weekend. Wd have high pressure controlling things,
:09:46. > :09:52.albeit temporarily because `t the week and we start the weekend it
:09:53. > :09:56.looks like we will see low-pressure and the weather fronts will return.
:09:57. > :10:00.It has been ready quiet. Ovdr the next couple of days we are hn the
:10:01. > :10:06.Eastern airstream so it won't warm up and the overnights are cold. True
:10:07. > :10:11.today at 12 showers have popped up, more than we anticipated. This is
:10:12. > :10:15.our latest picture from 10pl. By 11pm the showers moved out of the
:10:16. > :10:19.region. We expect it to be dry and clear tonight. Fingers crossed you
:10:20. > :10:25.could see quite a bit of thd meteor shower tonight. There will be a bit
:10:26. > :10:29.of cloud that drifts in now and then. Overnight temperatures are
:10:30. > :10:34.fairly low. Talking about three or four Celsius in rural areas. Towns
:10:35. > :10:39.and cities on the chart. Seven or eight Celsius not ready and. Mist in
:10:40. > :10:45.the morning is the exception not the rule. When the sun comes up it will
:10:46. > :10:48.be around and we are optimistic that you will see more sunshine `s you go
:10:49. > :10:52.through tomorrow. Patchy cloud floating in and blocking out that
:10:53. > :10:57.sunshine from time to time. 10% chance of shower for some unlucky
:10:58. > :11:00.places. 12 or 13 Celsius thd best for tomorrow. The outlook for the
:11:01. > :11:03.rest of the week shows Temperatures up into double figures.
:11:04. > :11:16.The outlook, mostly dry for the next few days. Now the national outlook.
:11:17. > :11:17.Good evening. We are likely to the all colours of the autumn,