teapot technician judy. she can feel the pressure in a&e as she does her round. i ve not long been on shift, but walking in and you see people on beds, you know people have been in a long time and you know it s going to be a full on day. still busy, as always, up here. even with the strike on, the hospital hairdresser lynn has her hands full. right, good morning, everybody. welcome to the last day of the doctors strike. i we joined the gold command group of senior managers. they were juggling patient numbers. during this meeting, they raised the alert level to reflect the significant pressure they were under. icu were pretty much full again with no step down. paeds is fine, maternity s in escalation. we are short ofjuniors, so we ve got at least two or three ward areas with no junior doctor on it at the moment. nearly 100 patients are being treated in overflow areas. consultants like vicky and shindu are working extra hours in the emergency department during the strike. they
throughout the programme. it s tuesday, the 9th of january. our main story. two formerjustice secretaries one conservative, the other labour are leading calls for the government to introduce legislation to quash the convictions of those caught up in the post office it scandal. the postal affairs minister, kevin hollinrake, said various options were being looked at to speed up appeals and compensate the victims. he said more talks would be held today and he hoped to announced a solution very shortly. here s our political correspondent, peter saull. i m the sub postmaster, so i m locked in and everyone else is locked out. so if you want to see my account. this is a scandal going back decades, and now a tv drama watched by millions has pushed it to the top of the political agenda. i know it s probably me because i m really rubbish with technology, but.| ve declared my cash, i ve declared my stock, i ve done it all three times and i still can t get it to balance. mr bates vs
report from milton keynes. my unofficial title is teapot technician. another hospital trolley this one with self styled teapot technician judy. she can feel the pressure in a&e as she does her round. i ve not long been on shift, but walking in and you see people on beds, you know people have been in a long time and you know it s going to be a full on day. still busy, as always, up here. even with the strike on, the hospital hairdresser lynn has her hands full. right, good morning, everybody. welcome to the last day of the doctors strike. i we joined the gold command group of senior managers. they were juggling patient numbers. during this meeting, they raised the alert level to reflect the significant pressure they were under. icu were pretty much full again with no step down. paeds is fine, maternity s in escalation. we are short ofjuniors, so we ve got at least two or three ward areas with no junior doctor on it at the moment. nearly 100 patients are being treated in ove
scandal to light and the women at the extraordinary drama that brought the extraordinary drama that brought the story to millions. that s news night at 10:30 the story to millions. that s news night at10:30 p:m.. good evening. the scandal of post office employees being wrongfully convicted of false accounting and theft was centre stage in westminster tonight, with the government confirming it s looking at how to speed up appeals against conviction for the victims and compensation. it s been under presure to act since an itv drama catapulted the issue to wider public attention. the scandal has been long running since 1999 over 700 sub postmasters were blamed for a bug in the computer system, which made it appear as though money was going missing. there are major questions for fujitsu the japanese company that developed the flawed system horizon and for the post office, which brought the prosecutions and had four bosses during this period. a petition to revoke the cbe awa