who s died at the age of 5a. royal mail customers still can t send letters and parcels overseas after a cyber attack on the company, with criminals believed to be demanding a ransom. and wales are in the men s hockey world cup for the first time and england are their first opponents. and coming up on the bbc news channel: the problems keep piling up for chelsea manager graham potter, with new loan signing joao felix facing suspension following defeat for the blues at fulham. good afternoon. welcome to the bbc news that one. in the last half hour manchester city footballer benjamin mendy has been found not guilty of six counts of rape and one count of sexual assault. jurors were unable to reach a verdict on one count of rape and one of sexual assault. it follows a six month trial at chester crown court. our north of england correspondent danny savage is there. explain what has happened? this trial started explain what has happened? this trial started back explain what
and with western weapons continuing to arrive in ukraine the country s defence minister tells the bbc his country has become a de facto member of nato. tributes are paid to lisa marie presley, the only child of elvis, who s died at the age of 5a. royal mail customers still can t send letters and parcels overseas after a cyber attack on the company. good afternoon. the manchester city footballer, benjamin mendy, has been found not guilty of six counts of rape, and one count of sexual assault. jurors were unable to reach a verdict on one count of rape and one of sexual assault. it follows a six month trial at chester crown court. our north of england correspondent, danny savage is there, explain more about what happened today is. explain more about what happened toda is. , , ., ., explain more about what happened toda is. , , . ., ., explain more about what happened toda is. , ., ., , ., today is. this is a trial that began today is. this is a trial that began to be heard t
the allegation that this organisation that s essentially here to ensure that doctors behave both ethically and safely is being used to intimidate doctors is a serious one. a newsnight investigation reveals a culture of fear in one of england s biggest hospital trusts. late last year, we reported that of 26 doctors referred to the gmc by the university hospitals birmingham trust, not one had any action taken against them, and we ve now learned that regulators were warned about the culture at uhb a year ago. you could see that people were being bullied, you know, by the threat of referrals to the gmc about whistle blowing. the unison trade union says it was contacted by dozens of uhb staff, most of them medics and not unison members. initially, we just thought it wasjust, like, one or two, and then it got quite worrying, the number of people and the sorts of things that they were saying. so numerous and serious were the concerns the union
was hearing that they put together a confidential report, which they sent to the care quality commission. it was really clear that people were being discouraged from reporting incidents, because the trust management wanted to say they ran an exemplary hospital and they didn t have any problems. then when you started digging in further, you could see that, you know, the use of disciplinary procedures against senior medics to try and stop them from being whistle blowers. the cqc say they considered the unison report when they conducted their most recent assessment of uhb, which ranked the trust as requires improvement . uhb told us they hadn t received or seen a copy of the unison report, and so couldn t fairly comment. they denied that staff were bullied or intimidated by management. since our initial investigation, the local health board has announced three separate reviews looking into the allegations we raised. the trust told us these are now well under way. david grossman, bbc news
and then it got quite worrying, the number of people and the sorts of things that they were saying. so numerous and serious were the concerns the union was hearing that they put together a confidential report, which they sent to the care quality commission. it was really clear that people were being discouraged from reporting incidents, because the trust management wanted to say they ran an exemplary hospital and they didn t have any problems. then when you started digging in further, you could see that, you know, the use of disciplinary procedures against senior medics to try and stop them from being whistle blowers. the cqc say they considered the unison report when they conducted their most recent assessment of uhb, which ranked the trust as requires improvement . uhb told us they hadn t received or seen a copy of the unison report, and so couldn t fairly comment. they denied that staff were bullied or intimidated by management. since our initial investigation, the local health boa