:00:11. > :00:23.Western General Hospital considers restricting access to A during
:00:24. > :00:28.certain hours but the trust insists it is not to save money.
:00:29. > :00:32.A new report claimed there was a serious failure of leadership at
:00:33. > :00:36.Bristol City Council. And they call the team continues
:00:37. > :00:38.tomorrow. It looks mostly cloudy. A few snow flurries, details at the
:00:39. > :00:40.end of the programme. While record numbers of people
:00:41. > :00:46.are waiting hours in Accident and Emergency departments
:00:47. > :00:47.across England, it's emerged Weston General
:00:48. > :00:48.is considering reducing It could mean 999 patients
:00:49. > :00:55.being diverted elsewhere. The hospital says the proposed
:00:56. > :00:58.changes aren't about saving money, despite them being ?7
:00:59. > :01:19.million over budget. The hospital has 320 beds, 200 and
:01:20. > :01:21.-- 24-hour Accident and Emergency as well as a small intensive care unit
:01:22. > :01:25.but money is tight and it struggles but money is tight and it struggles
:01:26. > :01:27.to fill vacant medical roles. The hill fog trust described as being
:01:28. > :01:32.clinically and financially clinically and financially
:01:33. > :01:35.unsustainable for over a decade. -- the health trust. It has a budget
:01:36. > :01:41.deficit of ?7.1 million and changes to the weird runs on the table. What
:01:42. > :01:45.we need to do is work out how can create a hospital that has got a
:01:46. > :01:48.long-term future that will help attract new staff who will come and
:01:49. > :01:52.want to stay here permanently. And also by working together with other
:01:53. > :01:57.organisations, both in the community but also the other hospitals, just
:01:58. > :02:01.look at how we can address the financial challenges. One of the
:02:02. > :02:06.changes could be to A here. Diverting 999 ambulances elsewhere
:02:07. > :02:10.at night time, keeping the department open for walk-in patients
:02:11. > :02:13.and scheduled ambulances. That would mean longer journeys for emergency
:02:14. > :02:17.patients during those hours but the hospital says the proposals would be
:02:18. > :02:22.to improve patient care, not to save money. The ideas being put forward
:02:23. > :02:29.in this engagement exercise are really focusing on the rights,
:02:30. > :02:31.services for patients, the rights, right ability to staff those
:02:32. > :02:36.properly and the right clinical services. The hospital is very
:02:37. > :02:39.important for those living nearby. The older generation don't always
:02:40. > :02:44.want to go up to Bristol and I think it does everything that we need down
:02:45. > :02:49.here. The NT if it is needed, it is the 24 hours a day if you need it.
:02:50. > :02:52.Yes, it is pretty important to the community. Something that you will
:02:53. > :02:57.need during your lifetime and getting older, it is nice to know it
:02:58. > :03:01.is there. The public can see the proposals and have their say on the
:03:02. > :03:03.North Somerset Clinical Commissioning Groups website, and
:03:04. > :03:08.there will be open days awkward, organised over the next eight weeks
:03:09. > :03:10.so that -- organised over the next eight weeks so people can get their
:03:11. > :03:22.appointment face-to-face. Other NHS trusts are also on the
:03:23. > :03:24.red. North Bristol has a projected deficit of ?46 million to the end of
:03:25. > :03:41.March. -- projected. Onto some other news tonight. MPs
:03:42. > :03:45.have released footage of a man being abducted from a bar in Bristol to
:03:46. > :03:51.try to find witnesses. It happened in December. The 22-year-old was
:03:52. > :03:55.dragged across the floor at the Blue Laguna on Gloucester Road, assaulted
:03:56. > :03:58.and put into a car. He was driven to Bradley Stoke before escaping. Two
:03:59. > :04:03.men have been arrested and released on bail.
:04:04. > :04:07.An independent report has made scathing criticisms of the way
:04:08. > :04:11.Bristol City Council's finances a big one. Adults of members being
:04:12. > :04:14.misled and a serious failure of leadership recent years. It was
:04:15. > :04:18.commissioned by the new mayor, who is grappling to make ?100 million in
:04:19. > :04:22.savings. Our political editor reports.
:04:23. > :04:26.This report says senior managers knew that planned savings were not
:04:27. > :04:30.being achieved, but routinely being achieved, but routinely
:04:31. > :04:35.concealed it. Breaking the bad news to Bristol, the mayor faced the
:04:36. > :04:40.media as the council released the damning report. An independent
:04:41. > :04:43.experts said a big savings programme had failed. Officials made
:04:44. > :04:48.assumptions that were false or awful. The mayor was not alerted,
:04:49. > :04:51.councillors were undoubtedly misled. It was, he said, a serious
:04:52. > :04:57.collective failure of leadership within the Council, for which
:04:58. > :04:59.several people, including elected politicians, there responsibility.
:05:00. > :05:04.The suggestions in the report about how and why things happened where a
:05:05. > :05:13.pretty explosive. Not only in terms of the absolute steal, but in terms
:05:14. > :05:18.of the way it was done. -- the size. We are not happy with this at all. A
:05:19. > :05:22.former GQ -- Chief Executive worked alongside the last mayor and has
:05:23. > :05:25.been unavailable for comment. The former mayor issued a statement
:05:26. > :05:33.saying he only heard about the review yesterday afternoon...
:05:34. > :05:38.The counsellor he had in charge of Bristol's finances does express
:05:39. > :05:42.regret and feels let down by officers. I end up feeling that I
:05:43. > :05:45.have totally inadvertently misled councillors because I was being told
:05:46. > :05:49.certain things were true when they were not. It does say there was a
:05:50. > :05:57.failure of political leadership, that would include you. It would.
:05:58. > :06:02.We... We did fail and the sense that we have this vast deficit. The
:06:03. > :06:06.senior managers criticised in the report are gone, leaving councillors
:06:07. > :06:10.shaken. Like a lot of people, when I read the report is pretty shocking
:06:11. > :06:14.in places. The simple fact that this was hidden for several months and
:06:15. > :06:17.actively hidden, it was not just a simple matter of people not
:06:18. > :06:22.realising, they did know it was there and they did not share that
:06:23. > :06:26.with councillors. The catalogue of failing to blame in this report have
:06:27. > :06:30.sent shock waves through City Hall. A new chief executive and a new head
:06:31. > :06:34.of finance are in post. The focus now is on putting things right and
:06:35. > :06:39.of making ?100 million worth of savings over the next four years.
:06:40. > :06:45.And brittle -- Bristol City Council said tonight that the report was
:06:46. > :06:50.funded by an external grant and not from the council's offers.
:06:51. > :06:53.As we revealed yesterday, Bristol is vying to be a national
:06:54. > :06:57.The city wants a share of a billion pound fund to make it happen.
:06:58. > :06:59.5G promises ultra-fast, ultra-reliable phone signal
:07:00. > :07:04.It's set to revolutionise our homes and our streets as Robin Markwell
:07:05. > :07:18.On the mean streets of the University of the West of England,
:07:19. > :07:24.they have clocked up 500 miles in a car without a driver. It relies on
:07:25. > :07:27.high-tech sensors to find its way around. Instant connection is
:07:28. > :07:33.crucial, you cannot be buffering when cruising at 70 mph. They are
:07:34. > :07:37.not quite ready for passengers yet but there is something more suitable
:07:38. > :07:42.in sight. For a glimpse into our 5G future, I thought I would take a
:07:43. > :07:46.little thin. At the moment, I am in charge of this simulator, but
:07:47. > :07:54.flicked a switch and the computer takes control. It is slightly
:07:55. > :07:59.disconcerting! Well, actually 5G is key. It is going to be key for
:08:00. > :08:05.designing vehicles capable of driving probably ten times better
:08:06. > :08:10.than a human driver. It was tough to hear. Instant reaction times, no
:08:11. > :08:14.blindspot and the ability to see around corners. Now scientists think
:08:15. > :08:18.robotic car will soon have the upper hand over on humans. Something that
:08:19. > :08:21.brings together industry and all the different... Talk to another
:08:22. > :08:24.visionary and you find the genes will not just be happening on our
:08:25. > :08:28.roads. People are getting used to the idea that their homes are
:08:29. > :08:32.becoming smarter. The poor are already controlling things like
:08:33. > :08:40.thermostats, central heating, curtains, TVs. This idea of homes
:08:41. > :08:44.having a brain that is collecting together lots of different data and
:08:45. > :08:46.information, that older finds the way that telecoms need to operate. I
:08:47. > :08:51.think we will see increasingly this idea of objects and devices that are
:08:52. > :08:56.talking to the network all the time. It was time to look at the bigger
:08:57. > :09:00.picture. With so many devices generating so much data, it was hard
:09:01. > :09:07.to see how you could make sense of it all. I found my answer inside
:09:08. > :09:13.Bristol's date at all. -- data though. Here's they sure what it all
:09:14. > :09:16.means when everything is pooled together, Real Time Information
:09:17. > :09:20.about the traffic on our roads, the quality of air, the health of the
:09:21. > :09:25.population. It all promises a better understanding of who we are. But
:09:26. > :09:28.with technology now moving quite so fast, some will fear this brave new
:09:29. > :09:39.world risks spinning out of control. A cheery thought to leave you with!
:09:40. > :09:43.That is it from us tonight. We are back with breakfast tomorrow from
:09:44. > :09:44.half past six but from now, good night and I will leave you with the
:09:45. > :09:52.weather forecast. Thank you very much. Good evening,
:09:53. > :09:55.everybody. The underlay for the forecast has been run through
:09:56. > :09:58.tomorrow and into the weekend will remain cold conditions that we have
:09:59. > :10:01.seen today. Tomorrow, if anything, that it cold feeling because the
:10:02. > :10:04.wind will be a little brisker. Certainly a lot of cloud around and
:10:05. > :10:09.we will start to introduce a higher risk of seeing some light wintry
:10:10. > :10:12.slurry is starting to a pure from the East, North East. Some of you
:10:13. > :10:15.have seen a few of those during today, particularly in parts of
:10:16. > :10:21.Gloucestershire. Expecting tonight to be dry. In a few sports, below
:10:22. > :10:25.freezing. Into tomorrow, another markedly cold day. Exacerbated by
:10:26. > :10:28.the fact the Bristol have picked up a bit and equally there will not be
:10:29. > :10:33.much in the way of any brightness of note. I notice in the graphics the
:10:34. > :10:36.signal for one or two wintry flurries to be running across from
:10:37. > :10:41.the East, North East. If anything, the risk of those will increase
:10:42. > :10:45.through the day and date overnight into Saturday. We might see some
:10:46. > :10:48.heavy snow showers in some areas at least through that period.
:10:49. > :10:55.Temperatures tomorrow broadly in a range of two to four. In the wind
:10:56. > :10:58.chills, -- in the winter chill, pretty cold wherever you happen to
:10:59. > :11:00.be. There will be showers around for some on Saturday. A wintry mix many
:11:01. > :11:02.places. sleet and snow. The outlook, Sunday
:11:03. > :11:09.will turn a bit less cold again. All the way up seven Celsius.
:11:10. > :11:15.At this time of year we can often get the weather stories that reflect
:11:16. > :11:20.the battle between winter and spring, and that's what's been
:11:21. > :11:26.happening in New York in the USA. Yesterday, 17 Celsius, but today,
:11:27. > :11:28.it's been bitterly cold, just a daytime maximum of -2, a