yesterday, starting off with some frost and ice, snow showers in parts of scotland and northern ireland, rain clearing the far south and more snow coming into the south pushing north tonight into tomorrow. it s wednesday the 7th of february. proposals to improve access to nhs dentists in england are being announced by the government today. the plans include offering top up payments for dentists to take on new nhs patients as well as bonuses to work in under served areas. but health leaders say the measures don t go far enough. here s our health editor, hugh pym. a long queue outside a new dental practice in bristol. local people simply wanting to register as nhs patients. the opening following a public campaign after the previous site closed. the story was covered on bbc breakfast yesterday. the images illustrate the growing sense of frustration at the lack of nhs treatment in areas of the country which have been branded dental deserts. a new government and nhs plan for engla
fertiliser and then washed into waterways, and one campaign group is taking the government to court accusing it of not doing enough to tackle the problem. here isjonah fisher. if you pay £5 for a chicken at your local supermarket, it just might come from here. we are being shown round a chicken farm in herefordshire. there are about 28,000 birds in this shed. they arrived a day old and they will spend their entire lives, that is 36 days, inside. spend their entire lives, that is 36 days. inside- spend their entire lives, that is 36 days, inside. everything is done for them, they days, inside. everything is done for them, they get days, inside. everything is done for them, they get all days, inside. everything is done for them, they get all their days, inside. everything is done for them, they get all their water - them, they get all their water delivered automatically, all of the feed is delivered automatically. i feed is delivered automatically. i guess this is the
that he felt there was a moral obligation of the company to pay some contribution towards the compensation of some of these people who were wrongly convicted, although there were no details of exactly how much or how that would really work in practice. he also said that the post office had become aware early on, to use his phrase, about some of the errors and bugs in the software system. a few other developments i think worth mentioning from yesterday, we heard from one of the lawyers representing 77 of the wrongly convicted sub postmasters who said that of that 77, only three had so far received fair and final compensation. we also heard from the post office minister, kevin hollinrake, who said that he hoped that any compensation due to some of these wrongly convicted people would be paid by the end of august but that the bill for that compensation could reach more than £1 billion. today, here at the inquiry, we will hear more from employees for fujitsu, getting down to the
committee of mps grilling the europe boss of fujitsu who made that apology for what he called an appalling miscarriage ofjustice. he also said for the first time that he felt there was a moral obligation of the company to pay towards the compensation of some of these people who were wrongly convicted, although there were no details of how much or how that would really work in practice. he also said that the post office had become aware early on, to use his phrase, about some of the errors and bugs in the software system. a few other developments worth mentioning from yesterday. we heard from one of the lawyers representing 77 of the wrongly convicted some postmasters who said that of that 77, only three had so far received fair and final compensation. we also heard from the post office minister who said he hopes that any compensation due to some of these wrongly convicted people would be paid by the end of august but that the bill for that compensation could reach more than �