In a new report into the it meltdown which left nearly 2 Million People without online services. Coming up on afternoon live, all the sport with ben croucher. A big night coming up for wales as they bid to qualify for the european championships. They know victory in cardiff over hungary tonight will see them into next years tournament automatically, hoping their big guns like gareth bale and aaron ramsey will be fit. Good afternoon, it was a cold and frosty start for many this morning, slowly they will be a milder air coming in from the south west with the chance of rain, and late in the programme we have a look at how wet it has been so far this month. Good afternoon, welcome to Southampton Solent University where we are coming from during today on bbc news. Boris johnson and Jeremy Corbyn will go head to head in theirfirst general election tv debate tonight. The liberal democrats and snp wont be taking part in the show on itv, after they lost a last minute legal bid to be included. T
Who are refusing to surrender. Swedish prosecutors drop their investigation of rape allegations against the wikileaks co founder, Julian Assange. Prince andrew is facing calls to talk to us investigators, from a woman who says Jeffrey Epstein assaulted her. Its 5 oclock, our main story. A leaked report into severe failings in Maternity Care at shrewsbury and Telford Hospital nhs trust has criticised what it calls a toxic culture at the trusts hospitals, going back a0 years. And it warns that lessons are still not being learned. The report contains the interim findings of a review into the trust, ordered by the government in 2017. It followed allegations that dozens of babies and mothers had died unnecessarily, or been left with permanent disabilities. The report says staff at the trust routinely dismissed parents concerns, were unkind, got dead babies names wrong and, in one instance, referred to a baby who died as it. Our Health Editor hugh pym explained the significance of todays new
To ten years in jail. The first clash between Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn of the election is on the way. We are alive tonight in salford, whether two will meet ina tonight in salford, whether two will meet in a couple of hours. The Plastic Waste crisis highlighted by David Attenboroughs blue planet 2 programme now he says there are signs of improvement. Its a bit of a litmus test to see whether, in fact, the population care about this sort of thing, and people do. And so, i think its very encouraging, to that degree. Coming up in sportsday later in the hour on bbc news tonight could be the night for wales. Win against hungary in cardiff, theyll qualify for the euros. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. Ever since the bbc revealed the scale of its failings, the shrewsbury and telford nhs trust has been under the spotlight. Tonight, a leaked report on the Maternity Hospital reveals failures way beyond what we knew already. Several dozen unexplained deaths are now being i
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Coming up we will have a big discussion about the manifesto of the green party. A leaked report on failings at the shrewsbury and telford nhs trust has said a toxic culture, linked to the deaths of at least 42 babies over four decades, has still not been properly addressed. An investigation that initially began looking at 23 cases in 2017 is now looking at more than 270, from 1979 to present day. Its interim findings include unexplained deaths, sub standard care that left babies brain damaged and disabled, and parents who were left in the dark. The trust has apologised. 0ur Health Editor hugh pym reports. I held her and said goodbye. And went home empty handed. And then he said that there was no heartbeat. That midwife come in crying, saying, oh, im so sorry, im so sorry too late. Distressing stories from parents told to bbc news during coverage of an unfolding scandal, which could yet turn into the worst ever in the history of nhs maternity care. Now a leaked report from an official i