in sport today, delight for scottish side darvel. how the sixth tier side upset all the odds to knock out premiership side aberdeen in what s being called the biggest upset in scottish cup history. 0k, set, and. . .action. and it s one of the biggest hits of the year so far. we go behind the scenes with star of happy valleyjames norton. there s an energy about tommy. there s a kind of animal, vital and unstoppable kind of force. and so when he s allowed to let rip, like he was yesterday, it s so fun. good morning. the northwest, southeast split in the weather once again today. the north and the west and cloudy with some patchy rain, and cloudy with some patchy rain, and the south has patchy fog and frost. it s tuesday 24th january. failings by the probation service left a serial offender free to commit murder, just days after he was released from prison, according to a damning watchdog report. the chief inspector of probation said a catalogue of errors led tojordan mcsweene
the murder of zara aleena, just days after he was released from prison. the chief inspector of the service says it is chronically understaffed . it is impossible to say whether the murder could have been avoided but we did find severe deficits in practice at many stages of jordan mcsweeney s supervision. nhs representatives will appear before mps on the health and social care committee to discuss the situation in a&e departments across england. let s cross live to the house of commons and listen in to the health and social care committee address the situation in a&e departments. a more nuanced question than that, demand has a bit with those figures, however, the reason we run into trouble is not the ancillary demand, the ability to deal with the demand. if we look at things like hospital admissions from an emergency department, those have remained relatively static. we have had problems with increased crowding, problems with increased crowding, problems in care in our depart
The time that the police had to go out and find him. the man was known to the criminal justice system, and to the police. what can we do with criminals who are institutionalised, who have had 36 felonies and don t know how to live outside? the report said probation officers in london have excessive workloads and there are high vacancy rates. and in mcsweeney s case, it says there was a lack of communication between prison and probation services about the risk he posed. so, i m not going to sit here and blame our members, doing their best, trying to hold the service together. i think the blame of this systemic failure lies firmly at the hands of the secretary of state forjustice. and i want that secretary of state to meet with me and practitioners so they can get an idea of how hard it is on the front line. the government has apologised