grieving relatives whose and grieving relatives whose lives were torn apart by nottingham triple killer valdo calocane say the nhs has blood on its hands after the psychotic killer was sectioned. an incredible four times and yet still released and go on to kill. is it time for heads to roll at the nottinghamshire nhs trust? one of the victims mothers , emma webber, spoke to mothers, emma webber, spoke to gb news earlier. >> you read the report if anybody's reading the report or even reading the headlines, you can see that there was gross negligence, >> and catastrophic failures . >> and catastrophic failures. >> and catastrophic failures. >> and 32 year old romanian citizen ian pinter , who has been citizen ian pinter, who has been charged with stabbing a girl, eight times in leicester square . eight times in leicester square. yesterday, an 11 year old girl will be outside westminster magistrates court for all of the latest, and there's a vacancy

with harry and meghan. if you can stand working with the pair of them as their chief of staff has stepped down a mere three months into the role and this makes him the 18th senior figure from their entourage to leave since they got married. all of this, and much more between now and 6 pm. welcome to the show. always a pleasure to have your company. sir keir starmer can't stop the boats. the victims , the stop the boats. the victims, the relatives of valdo calocane still aren't getting justice. an astonishing report, saying that the nhs trust has blood on its hands. so many missed opportunities to bring him to justice before he went to on kill their precious children . kill their precious children. still, this rolls on. what can be done about this? do you feel that britain is simply losing a handle on who to protect? and of course, an 11 year old girl

stabbed an astonishing eight times yesterday at leicester square . what's going on with square. what's going on with this country? do you feel like we're losing control or those in power out to protect the right people? get in touch with your views. gbnews.com forward slash your say. let's start with your headunes your say. let's start with your headlines and it's sam francis . headlines and it's sam francis. >> martin thank you very much. and good afternoon to you. >> 3:02. the top story this houn >> 3:02. the top story this hour. the health secretary has said the deaths of barnaby webber , grace o'malley—kumar and webber, grace o'malley—kumar and ian coates at the hands of valdo calocane could have been prevented . wes streeting was prevented. wes streeting was reacting to the findings of a review of the killer's care. the review of the killer's care. the review found an nhs trust played down calocane's risk to the pubuc down calocane's risk to the public by potentially omitting key details , including his key details, including his symptoms of psychosis , what the symptoms of psychosis, what the care quality commission have uncovered is deeply distressing. most of all for the families of grace barnaby and ian, who, in

addition to having to deal with the unbearable and unimaginable grief they're going through, are doing so in the knowledge that this could have been prevented and should have been prevented, that there wasn't a single point of failure, but multiple and fundamental failures on the part of the nhs to manage valdo calocane treatment in a way that not only kept him safe, but most importantly kept others safe. wes streeting . well, a man has wes streeting. well, a man has appeared in court charged with attempted murder after an 11 year old girl was stabbed eight times yesterday in leicester square. the 32 year old romanian citizen johan pinter, of no fixed address, has also been charged with possession of a bladed article. it was initially thought that the girl's mother had also been hurt. however, it has now been confirmed that blood from her daughter's injuries had been mistaken for injuries had been mistaken for injuries of her own . the 13 year injuries of her own. the 13 year old girl has become the latest young person to be convicted for

her part in the widespread riots after admitting threatening and unlawful violence outside a hotel housing asylum seekers. the teenager, who can't be named because of her age, sat with her parents as she admitted the offence outside potters international hotel on the 31st of july. the crown prosecution service said she was seen punching and kicking the entrance to that hotel and she'll now be sentenced at basingstoke magistrates court on the 30th of september. officers in kent searching for a missing girl from sittingbourne have released a cctv image believed to show her in canterbury. the 12 year old katie spice was reported missing after last being seen in sittingbourne high street at around 4:00 on sunday, the 11th of august. police have now released this cctv image you can see there on your screens, believed to show katie getting off a train at canterbury east railway station shortly after 5 pm. that same day. you can see there she's wearing leggings and a pink top. police are urging

anyone with information to come forward . nearly 5000 migrants forward. nearly 5000 migrants have crossed the english channel since labour came into power. that's according to new figures out today . that's the former out today. that's the former head of the border force, tony smith, who told gb news that sir keir starmer's plans to smash the gangs will be very difficult to achieve. >> expect the uk to be able to smash the gangs if you like , smash the gangs if you like, without some form of international collaboration where powers can be used by other countries on their jurisdictions to bring people to justice to and prevent people and goods crossing borders, etc. rather than the uk being able to do this on their own. >> in the us, donald trump has called joe biden's decision to quit the presidential race a coup. during a talk with the tech billionaire elon musk last night. the interview finally got underway on the social platform x , with more than 1.3 million

x, with more than 1.3 million people tuning in live after a delay, which mr musk blamed on a cyber attack, trump confirmed that he will return to butler in pennsylvania in october after surviving an assassination attempt on the 13th of july. the us presidential candidate also criticised the eu and his democratic opponent, kamala harris. >> i can tell you this we cannot have a democrat. we cannot have her. she's incompetent. she's as bad as biden in a different yeah, he hasn't done an interview since this whole, scam started. and say what you want. this was a coup. this was a coup of a president of the united states . he of a president of the united states. he didn't want to of a president of the united states . he didn't want to leave. states. he didn't want to leave. and they said, we can do it the nice way or we can do it the hard way. >> here. an inquest into the death of former england cricketer graham thorpe has opened today after his wife revealed the sportsman tragically took his own life. that inquest heard graham thorpe died after being struck by a train at a railway station in surrey. tributes have flooded in

for the late cricketer after his death on the 5th of august. his family have also since revealed he had been suffering from depression and from anxiety . and depression and from anxiety. and art lovers were surprised at london zoo this morning as the latest banksy artwork was unveiled. the gorilla is the ninth animal themed piece that the elusive street artist has claimed in the same number of days. claimed in the same number of days . those are the latest gb days. those are the latest gb news headlines for now, i'm sam francis. you're next update just after 3:30 for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code , alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com. >> forward slash alerts . >> forward slash alerts. >> forward slash alerts. >> thank you sam. now gb news can exclusively reveal that nearly 5000 small boat migrants have crossed the english channel since the labour party came to

power , and it comes as the power, and it comes as the former head of border force warns this channel that sir keir starmer has promised to smash the gangs is a near impossible task and will rely on total co—operation of many other countries. our homeland security editor mark white reports from the compound, where many hundreds of seized small boats are now stored at a compound on the outskirts of dover. >> a sobering illustration of the scale of the task facing the new labour government in their efforts to end the channel migrant crisis. row after row of small boats, hundreds of them, many now deflated and rolled up as we filmed , contractors as we filmed, contractors dropped off more dinghies, the latest to have made the illegal crossing into uk waters. this is for rishi sunak. crossing into uk waters. this is for rishi sunak . sir keir for rishi sunak. sir keir starmer's focus is on going after the people smugglers, who've now sent thousands more migrants across the channel

since labour came to power. but the former head of border force says tackling international criminal gangs will be extremely difficult without full co—operation from many other governments. >> these are very, very big ask, i think, to expect the uk to be able to smash the gangs. if you like, without some form of international collaboration where powers can be used by other countries on their jurisdictions to bring people to justice to and prevent people and goods crossing borders, etc. rather than the uk being able to do this on their own. >> tony smith says there is no indication so far that the appetite of the smugglers and their customers has been in any way diminished since labour came to power. >> this is a hugely lucrative business. there is an unending supply of migrants pervading the eu border, many of whom are in various member states, very keen

to get across to the uk who are prepared to mortgage their lives effectively to get a place on a very dangerous vessel to get themselves into uk territorial waters . that narrative still waters. that narrative still exists, i think across europe and beyond. so the pull factor is very much there for now at least. >> the migrant boats will continue to stack up here as even the government acknowledges it will take some time for its new approach to impact the organised criminal gangs making millions from their trade in human misery. mark white gb news >> well gb news homeland security editor mark white joins us now from dover. mark, an excellent package that, dinghy graveyard there outside dover. i know it well. it's an astonishing sight . just dinghy astonishing sight. just dinghy after dinghy after dinghy. let's be clear about this. mark white they can't stop the boats, can they? like king canute cannot stop the tide. but mark white,

it seems to have got worse since the labour party came into power. they promised to draw a red line under it instead. it seems they've rolled out the red carpet . carpet. >> well, there's certainly been no slowdown in the number of small boat migrants coming across the english channel. now we would normally see an upsurge in the numbers arriving at this time of year. that's been the case really, since the small boat crisis began in 2018. and we saw in the summer months in previous years when we have flat, calm conditions, then many more would come than would come. obviously at the beginning or the end of the year. so we're in that pattern. and i think what it shows is that at this stage at least, there is absolutely nothing. despite the rhetoric we are getting from sir keir starmer and his government, there is nothing that this administration can do, at least in the short term, to stop that flow. and that's probably why of

course, yvette cooper, the new home secretary , speaking to the home secretary, speaking to the cabinet, recently told them to prepare for a difficult summer ahead. >> mark, can i ask you about something in the news today? sir keir starmer, looking to do a deal with giorgia meloni, the italian premier so—called illegal migrant force, a pan european force joining up forces. rishi sunak, of course, tried to do the same. didn't work that time around. mark you spent a lot of time in italy reporting on the arrivals going into italy. italy can't even control its own borders in the past nine years, over 670,000 illegals have landed on those coasts. is this diplomatic answer? this, soft power reach to the eu, likely to slow things down? or is it just yet more posturing ? posturing? >> well, i think it feeds into exactly what we were hearing from tony smith, the former head

of border force, a man who knows within that report, there who says that it will be extremely difficult to make any meaningful inroads into combating this international people smuggling trade unless you have complete cooperation of countries and their law enforcement agencies, you know, right across europe and beyond. and that i think , is and beyond. and that i think, is what you're seeing from keir starmer now, from rishi sunak, before trying to get countries , before trying to get countries, like minded countries to on board ensure that the eu is focused on the threat to its own borders. and you're right, i was in lampedusa, the italian island at the forefront of the migrant crisis last year as we saw boat after boat arriving from north africa into lampedusa with thousands of asylum seekers who would land in lampedusa and then, of course, in time be

shipped on to mainland europe. so there's a big issue that not just the uk , but europe as a just the uk, but europe as a whole is grappling with. clearly, sir keir starmer wants to see a more concerted effort from his european counterparts. those other countries that are also dealing with this issue across their borders as well . across their borders as well. but it will be difficult because you can as a law enforcement agency here in the uk , be given agency here in the uk, be given extra powers as they will be by the westminster government. extra anti—terrorism powers . but extra anti—terrorism powers. but they are only useful in this country. you need, as i say, to go back to this point, the cooperation of these other countries before you can operate on their soil and of course, operate in any meaningful way. >> mark, can i ask you a blunt question? and that is every european country between the landing points and britain. they have their own political

problems. they have their own blight of illegal migrants. why would they want to stop anybody leaving their country and come into britain ? into britain? >> well, i mean, certainly if you're a european country like germany, where many of these migrants end up and actually end up staying, then you probably do want a solution to the problem. but if you're in one of the transit route countries where migrants are coming into in particular southern europe and then heading up to the more prosperous northern european countries , and many, of course, countries, and many, of course, as we know, with a view to get into the uk, well, perhaps you're not as incentivised to try to fight the problem on your own doorstep. you know, you know that it's a sort of a problem that it's a sort of a problem that yes, exists, but these people are not draining your resources. or if they are, it's not for very long because they want to get further north. >> mark white there. i think you've hit the nail on the head.

excellent as ever. thanks for joining us from dover. we'll speak to you again later in the show. now moving on the families of the three nottingham stabbing victims have criticised the mental health services who dealt with killer valdo calocane and the lead up to the attacks , the lead up to the attacks, saying they have blood on their hands. i'll be speaking to a man whose father was murdered by a mental health patient . next. whose father was murdered by a mental health patient. next. i'm martin daubney on gb news, business

channel. welcome back your time is 320. i'm martin daubney on gb news now. three white police officers have won a discrimination case after an employment judge ruled that they were passed over for promotion because of their race. is this two tiered policing recruitment? well, of course it is . but first, recruitment? well, of course it is. but first, the families of the three nottingham stabbing victims barnaby webber, grace o'malley—kumar, and ian coates

have criticised the mental health services who dealt with killer valdo calocane in the lead up to the attacks and they have blood on their hands and that's as a new review found. an nhs trust identified missed opportunities to deal with calocane psychosis . health calocane psychosis. health secretary wes streeting says the victims families deserve better. >> what the care quality commission have uncovered is deeply distressing. most of all for the families of grace , for the families of grace, barnaby and ian, who in addition to having to deal with the unbearable and unimaginable grief they're going through, are doing so in the knowledge that this could have been prevented and should have been prevented, that there wasn't a single point of failure. but multiple and fundamental failures on the part of the nhs to manage valdo calocane treatment in a way that not only kept him safe, but most importantly kept others safe. that's why , in advance of the that's why, in advance of the publication of this report, the

nottinghamshire trust have already been acting to implement some of its findings and act on its recommendations, particularly in terms of the supervision of patients , supervision of patients, medication and, crucially, discharge . and i've also ensured discharge. and i've also ensured that what we've seen in the case of nottinghamshire results in action right across the country. nhs has already instructed trusts not to discharge patients who don't attend, which is why happened tragically in valdo calocane case, and there will be further action and i'll be seeking regular updates because we've heard so many times before lessons must be learned . lessons must be learned. actually, what we need to see is lessons acted upon, not just for the benefit of people in nottinghamshire, but right across the country . across the country. >> emma webber, the mother of victim barnaby webber, spoke to gb news earlier. here's what she had to say when you read the report. >> if anybody is reading the report or even reading the headlines, you can see that there was gross negligence. and

catastrophic failures, which directly led to this individual not being treated properly, not being sectioned properly, even , being sectioned properly, even, and being released out into the community, if you're at that level, if you're a senior decision maker in the nhs, in, in medicine, i would say the same within police forces as well. and you don't do your job properly, then you have to be held to account . held to account. >> fantastic. brave, beautiful mother. now joining us now is our east midlands reporter , will our east midlands reporter, will hollis, who's in my home city of nottingham. will a catalogue of failures from the police, from the nhs trust social services all the way through. the families feel aggrieved. they didn't feel they got justice. they felt they were delivered a fait accompli in court. valdo calocane is now in a secure hospital . calocane is now in a secure hospital. he's able to claim benefits. that in itself is a completely fresh story. but will hollis, this story has cast a long and a dark shadow over the

city of nottingham, and indeed the entire country, and for the family will today the tragedy, the trauma in a sense, is relived . relived. >> yes. well, it's more than a year ago now that valdo calocane killed those two students. grace o'malley—kumar and barnaby webber, as well as school caretaker ian coates. it is quite normal for the care quality commission. the regulator to inspect hospitals and health care facilities like highbury hospital, where valdo calocane was sectioned three of the four times. but this was the end of a special review that was ordered by victoria prentis, the attorney general . and ultimately attorney general. and ultimately what the end of this review has found is that the cqc identified that the mental health trust here at nottinghamshire minimised or admitted the risks

that surrounded valdo calocane and the risks that he presented to members of the public. a couple of the risks that have been identified from eight different risk assessments while he was in contact with the health care trust over a period of around two years from may 2020 to september 22nd, 2022. was that valdo calocane was experiencing symptoms of psychosis. of course, he was suffering from schizophrenia and he was refusing to take medication. now the cqc says that the records make it clear that the records make it clear that valdo calocane was acutely unwell, and that was during the penod unwell, and that was during the period that he was being cared for and treated by the nottinghamshire healthcare nhs foundation trust. he was sectioned four different times andifs sectioned four different times and it's because of those interactions and ultimately those failings that today we've heard from the families who describe the doctors and medics

who treated valdo calocane as having blood on their hands. what we remember from the what happened when valdo calocane was sentenced was that he was sentenced was that he was sentenced to an indefinite hospital order, meaning there was no trial, and he pleaded guilty under grounds of manslaughter. under diminished responsibility, meaning he's not entirely answerable to his crimes. but now valdo calocane is residing in a high security hospital. it's important to state that nottinghamshire healthcare trusts said that we acknowledge and accept the conclusions of this report and have significantly improved processes and standards since the review was carried out. >> okay, thanks. i'll update will hollis there in nottingham now 100 to 120 people every year across the country are being killed by someone with a severe mental illness. and my next guest is julian hendy. and his

father, philip was fatally stabbed by a paranoid schizophrenic man in two thousand and seven. he now runs a charity called 100 families, which supports the relatives of victims of mentally ill killers. julian, it's an absolute pleasure to have you on the show. your story is so incredibly moving. before we talk about the valdo calocane case, would you please, share, if you don't mind the story of what happened to your father? you made a very moving documentary for the bbc called why did you kill my dad ? can you why did you kill my dad? can you fill us in on on that tragic event, please? >> thank you. martin, in two thousand and seven, my father was went to pay his paper bill one sunday bright sunday morning in bristol . and as he was in bristol. and as he was walking out of the shop, a man he'd never met before who had a long history of paranoia, schizophrenia, drug abuse and violence, stabbed him in the neck and stabbed him in the back. >> and he died, seven days later. as i was holding his hand . later. as i was holding his hand. >> and my background is, as a journalist, a filmmaker. i had

made films about people with schizophrenia in brixton prison and various other prisons, and i found that although i'd had 25 years experience as an investigative journalist, i found that it was so difficult to get any information about what had happened and why this man was unwell, untreated , man was unwell, untreated, dangerous and at liberty. on the day he killed my dad , i went. day he killed my dad, i went. >> i knew there was going to be an inquiry report by the local mental health trust , and when mental health trust, and when i contacted them, they said, well, we we'd love to show you the report, but we can't because of his patient confidentiality. >> he needs to consent to give you the report. and i thought, well, he's just killed my dad and now it's up to him to see how much information i could receive. >> and i thought that was just wrong as a form of against any form of natural justice. >> and that's the reason i set up the charity. >> i made a film about my case and four other cases around the country, and i found very, very similar problems, typical

problems that we've seen in the calocane case, failure to manage and assess the risk properly, failure to plan care properly , failure to plan care properly, failure to plan care properly, failure to plan care properly, failure to monitor his medication, failure to listen to the to the family. >> failure to use the mental health act properly. these are all repeated failings that we see time and time again. >> in hundreds of cases, there have been hundreds of inquiry reports in the last 30 years. >> they all say often very similar things. and with this very little evidence that people are learning about it, what i think should happen is that we want this to what i hope is that this might be a landmark case. >> it might be a case where people sit up and take notice, and for once we can say, yeah, lessons have been learned and people aren't, you know, patients, their families and the general public can be protected . general public can be protected. >> and, julian, it's your immense credit. every time i speak with you, i get very, very emotional. i know what you've been through is astonishing. you've turned. what happened to you? that tragedy, into an astonishing campaigning career. and i just absolutely hats off

to you once again, my friend . to you once again, my friend. but just in terms of no, it's no problem. you're an absolute gentleman in terms of what's happened to the victims in the calocane case, do you think we will actually learn any lessons we here wes streeting almost talk in platitudes. we will learn lessons, we will move on. do you think things are really going to change? or sadly, are we resigned to the fact that these systemic failures just seem baked in to the way we run our nhs and indeed our police forces ? forces? >> i think i mean, we met, i met with the families and wes streeting last last week, he was, approachable. he did listen, i think he got it. you know, i hope he has enough power to move the bureaucracy to change, i think what we see is that this these are what i'm calling for. are two changes. one is that people with serious mental illnesses, you know, there's a small number of people with serious mental illnesses who are potentially dangerous when unwell, when they are unable or unwilling to get

treatment . those people need treatment. those people need more assertive care and treatment and follow up. they used to be things called assertive outreach teams, which were all abolished, you know, and they they were given to more genenc and they they were given to more generic community teams, which i know cases where people have said, well, you know, we'll offer you an appointment in six months time, that's not safe for people who don't think they're unwell. >> and the second thing is, there needs to be a lot more openness and transparency. >> these are matters of serious pubuc >> these are matters of serious public concern. often we see, oh, we can't tell you anything because of patient confidentiality or we'll , you confidentiality or we'll, you know, we will we will tell you in the future or three months, three, three years down the line, a coroner's inquest. that's too late. families are waiting. they want the information as soon as they can to help them cope and recover. so we want better assertive care for people who need it. and more openness and transparency around this june. >> henry, you know, you're an absolute inspiration. 100 families, you're doing god's work. thank you so much for coming on the show, and please keep it up. thank you so much. >> thank you. martin >> thank you. martin >> okay, lots more still to come

between now 4:00, including tory hopeful tom tugendhat, who blames the collapse of social trust on the recent unrest. is he right? but first, here's your headunes he right? but first, here's your headlines with sam francis . headlines with sam francis. >> good afternoon from the gb newsroom. 332 the headlines the health secretary says the nhs made multiple and fundamental failures in the care given to valdo calocane, who killed three people in nottingham last year. the care quality commission found poor decision making omissions and errors in judgement. the trust, though , judgement. the trust, though, insists it has improved all wes streeting, says grace o'malley—kumar, ian coates and barnaby webber's deaths could and should, he says, have been prevented. what the care quality commission have uncovered is deeply distressing. most of all for the families of grace barnaby and ian , who, in

barnaby and ian, who, in addition to having to deal with the unbearable and unimaginable grief they're going through, are doing so in the knowledge that this could have been prevented and should have been prevented, that there wasn't a single point of failure, but multiple and fundamental failures on the part of the nhs to manage valdo calocane treatment in a way that not only kept him safe, but most importantly kept others safe . a importantly kept others safe. a man has appeared in court charged with attempted murder after an 11 year old girl was stabbed in leicester square in central london just after lunchtime yesterday . 32 year old lunchtime yesterday. 32 year old johan pinochet was accused of stabbing her eight times after grabbing the girl while she was with her mother . a 13 year old with her mother. a 13 year old has been convicted over the recent riots across the uk. the girl, who can't be named because of her age, has pleaded guilty to threatening unlawful violence outside a hotel, housing asylum seekers that was in aldershot in hampshire . an investigation has

hampshire. an investigation has now started into a crowd surge at boardmasters music festival in cornwall. that left seven people injured. among them was a woman who fractured her knee, while another woman says she had ten people fall on top of her. it happened at one of the main stages on friday, which did reopen the following day , and a reopen the following day, and a ninth animal themed banksy artwork has appeared overnight, this time at london zoo. the latest piece has been sprayed onto the entrance and shows a gorilla appearing to lift up the barrier to let the animals escape . staff at the zoo have escape. staff at the zoo have been asked if the elusive artist was spotted on tv, but of course they're not giving anything away . they're not giving anything away. those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm sam francis. more in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gb news. >> .com. forward slash alerts .

>> .com. forward slash alerts. >> .com. forward slash alerts. >> thank you sam. now, if you'd like to get in touch with me here @gbnews, simply because gbnews.com/yoursay get your comments in, i'll read few out before end of the show. i'm

welcome back. it's 337. i'm martin daubney on gb news now. tory leadership hopeful tom tugendhat has called for a national conversation about the causes of the recent riots. he blames the collapse of social trust on the unrest, saying this has been fuelled by misinformation. the rise of both islamist and far right extremism and also the reckless political rhetoric of reform. uk leader nigel farage. well, does he have a point? well, does he have a point? well, let's get the latest from our political editor , our political editor, christopher hope. chris, welcome to the show. so it's got to be

said tom tugendhat, putting the boot into nigel farage has got to be said that the gb news inbox has gone absolutely berserk about this. a lot of people, not very happy that tugendhat having a pop at nigel farage. tell us more . farage. tell us more. >> hi, marty. >> hi, marty. >> yeah, well i'm in russi on whitehall, where moments ago tom tugendhat, who's one of six candidates to be the next conservative leader, he gave a speech. he's also the shadow security minister. so he was mainly tied to issues to do with the riots over the past ten days or so. he said that too many people are living in communities shorn of pride, parked on benefits and forgotten with a forgotten sense of trust collapsing. >> he called for the police to share more information about arrested individuals in riots. >> he talked about the need for a national security police to take over to try and hive off that part of the met police, which does security policing, and he questioned why is the government releasing prisoners

early next month when they found a 500 places or so in the in the prison network, now to house those people arrested for linking to the troubles? and he also talked about why the keir starmer wait for a week before holding a cobra meeting in whitehall to get a grip on the riots. of course, the government said there were meetings happening. outside of that, there is no need for one. >> i asked him a question for gb news viewers, >> he didn't really give a straightforward answer, but i did ask him, would you let nigel farage into the party? >> i asked him whether he thinks the tory party should apologise for overseeing communities in his words, shorn of pride. and also, i asked him as a polling question out at the moment. >> 3 in 5 voters do not care who becomes leader of a tory party. >> i asked him that. >> i asked him that. >> let's see what he said in reply. >> how do we handle this right? and we need to make sure that what we're doing is we are changing the way that we look at

policing across the uk, but also we look at the way that we treat the economy. and this is why i was so supportive of the levelling up agenda. this is why i was so supportive of investment, because if you look at these communities, if you look at these towns, you can see time and again that the level of joblessness in these communities has either flatlined or in some cases increased the level of personal gdp increase has been zero. and in fact, in some cases negative. and so what we're seeing is a pattern of civic and economic failure , not over a few economic failure, not over a few years, but actually over many generations. in some cases. and that's something that we've got to get right . to get right. >> so there you have tom tugendhat sticking to the script, talking about security. he did say no to me when i asked him directly about nigel farage. that may have been what helped to contribute to the gb news inbox. to contribute to the gb news inbox . going bananas, as you say inbox. going bananas, as you say there, martin. just briefly on there, martin. just briefly on the wider picture of the tory leadership campaign, there are six candidates, three on the right, three on the left. and the view is for some people that

tom tugendhat is the favoured centre ground candidate , that he centre ground candidate, that he might beat james cleverly and mel stride. that is what some experts say. i think is quite a wide open now in the centre and on the right of the party, of course, you've got priti patel and robert a jenrick sort of battling it out there. so i think, you know, for the centre ground, tom tugendhat is seen by some to be the favourite . some to be the favourite. >> just to read out a couple of those comments that i mentioned to you there, chris hope, kathy says this, tom tugendhat badmouthing nigel farage, how deluded he's just lost my party member vote. angela how dare you blame nigel. mr tugendhat, you and your government are entirely to blame for what is going on in our country, and labour are doing exactly the same. all politicians blaming other people. this is lazy governing, but there are some fans in the inbox. but there are some fans in the inbox . gary says this very good inbox. gary says this very good speech by tom tugendhat and connor says the sensible centre

right back starts now . and right fight back starts now. and is that the point? chris hope, the answer no to nigel farage. there's a clear demarcation happening here. this is the battle to get that centre ground back and if anybody thought there was going to be a deal with nigel farage to get nigel back into the party, the conservative party, that seems to be a withering prospect . this to be a withering prospect. this seems to be setting out clear blue water between the conservative party of the future and the conservative party that many people may have wanted. that involved nigel farage. >> yeah, martin, but the risk, of course, is if you ignore where the reform votes went, you won't win them back. and you're you're basically like the, you know, chasing, chasing after a ever declining number of voters because lib dems and labour are also in the centre ground. so i think what other candidates are trying to do is appeal to reform and then maybe tack more centrally when you win. we're looking at maybe robert jenrick in that front, maybe kemi badenoch maybe that could be the way to try and sort out the

problem facing the right. currently, the right, the right of politics is split and that handed, frankly, labour their landslide victory in july. >> chris, do you think that the decision by rishi sunak not to resign straight after the general election now might be a bad decision? i say that because we can't predict what happens in politics, we can't predict what happensin politics, we can't predict what happens in britain. we've seen these riots these past few weeks. the conservative party has been a ghost. it's barely been anywhere because it doesn't have an effective leader of the opposition . rishi sunak seems to opposition. rishi sunak seems to be spending a awful lot of time in california. we're barely see the fella and the conservative party doesn't seem to be speaking out much on the issue of our time. they're almost absent from the battlefield . absent from the battlefield. >> yet to some extent, i mean , >> yet to some extent, i mean, james cleverly, he's obviously candidate to be the prime minister if they win the election, but certainly tory leader in the short term. he has been issuing statements and the like trying to make policy. but yeah, i think the party has been

quite absent. i think in the first five weeks of the of the labour government, we won't get a leader until the 2nd of november. currently we have six candidates going down to four candidates going down to four candidates at the beginning of next month. and then two after the party conference in early october. so we're some way away from get any clarity . and you've from get any clarity. and you've got really a lot of these leadership candidates almost freelancing into areas they think they should be involved. i mean, tom tugendhat, his speech, you know, you could argue it's a week late. i mean, he maybe should have given his speech when the riots were in the air, maybe about to happen or just maybe about to happen orjust had happened. i mean, he would argue of course, that you can only make politics about these events after the police have got back control, but yeah, the question is, why not? yeah. why is the party not more present when you've got a labour government which has whipped away benefits for the winter fuel payment from millions of pensioners and given perks, had to pay, pay, pensioners and given perks, had to pay, pay, pay pensioners and given perks, had to pay, pay, pay supposedly to workers, a big pay rise and

doctors are very big pay rise. so there's lots of debate to be had in politics that isn't being had.the had in politics that isn't being had. the party doesn't appear to be led centrally in any sense. i know that the leader, rishi sunak, has been photographed in the west coast of america recently. he's having a holiday, but yeah, there's a feeling here amongst the tory are looking at the tory party of drift. but that polling from ipsos mori is brutal. 3 that polling from ipsos mori is brutal . 3 in 5 that polling from ipsos mori is brutal. 3 in 5 people, that polling from ipsos mori is brutal . 3 in 5 people, who voted brutal. 3 in 5 people, who voted tory in the july election, don't care or don't really mind who who leads the party. i mean, it is brutal finding here, i think for the party to to, think about. i think it's 3 in 5 of all voters. i think. but even so, this is a worry for the party. how does it get back relevancy, which it seems to have lost at the moment. >> okay. and maybe a new leader might be rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic. chris, hope, always a pleasure. thanks for joining us on the show. now, forjoining us on the show. now, a romanian citizen charged with stabbing an 11 year old child eight times has been remanded in

custody. we'll bring you all the latest on that next. i'm martin daubney on gb news, business news

channel. welcome back. it's 349. i'm martin daubney on gb news a romanian citizen charged with stabbing an 11 year old child eight times in leicester square yesterday has been remanded in custody. gb news, national reporter charlie peters was at westminster magistrates court and he has this report . and he has this report. >> 32 year old johan pinter , who >> 32 year old johan pinter, who has been remanded in custody after being charged with attempted murder and possession of an offensive weapon. mr pentru, a romanian citizen, is said to have stabbed an 11 year old taurus, eight times where she suffered wounds to her face,

neck, shoulder and wrist area. she is still in a major london hospital where she is being treated for serious but not life threatening injuries. now the district judge here, michael snow , said that fortunately, snow, said that fortunately, members of the public intervened, which prevented any further injury being made to the child. he said officers were called and found the defendant being held by members of the public. he was detained and searched at leicester square, where a knife was found on his person in relation to the complainant. she is still facing treatment for those serious injuries and the district judge, michael snow, also said that mr monteiro must remain in custody pending his next appearance at the old bailey, via video link on the 10th of september. due to the nature and seriousness of the nature and seriousness of the allegations . the allegations. >> well, it's an astonishing story and yesterday i had norman

brennan on the show , 30 years he brennan on the show, 30 years he spent campaigning against knife crime . it was two weeks the day crime. it was two weeks the day that we saw the triple killing in southport, that we saw that tragic incident yesterday at leicester square, 32 year old man stabbing indiscriminately. unknown to the victim , eight unknown to the victim, eight times in public. we need to do something drastic about knife crime in this country and we need to do it fast. it's simply cannot carry on. now, loads of you have been getting in touch with your sources throughout the show, and in particular, you've been very moved by the reports we did on valdo calocane. the report saying that the nhs trust in nottinghamshire has blood on its hands. the victims in many ways grieving once again and kathy said this of emma webber, of course , as the mother of of course, as the mother of barnaby webber, who was one of the three tragically killed, says this i'm simply in awe of emma webber and kathy. i totally

agree with you, nothing will bnng agree with you, nothing will bring her son back, but my goodness, because of this amazing woman , his death will amazing woman, his death will not be in vain. give her a job on a governing body where she will make changes for the better. you know, kathy, that's. it's an amazing thing to say and it's an amazing thing to say and i totally agree. and we had judy and hendy on from 100 families a moment ago. you saw i got very, very moved by that. his father was killed by a paranoid schizophrenic. he's turned that terrible , terrible event where terrible, terrible event where a 75 year old dad went to the paper shop in two thousand and seven and never came back. he's turned that into his life's work to campaign for justice for those who've had their relatives taken 100 between 100, 120 every yean taken 100 between 100, 120 every year, killed by people with mental health issues, many of whom don't go to prison. they go to secure institution. and astonishingly, they can claim benefits £400 a month if they're in for 20 years. that could be a £100,000 tax free payoff, courtesy of the taxpayer. when they come out. is that justice?

that's a whole separate conversation on the same topic, kate, as this. i'm sick to the back teeth of the nhs being lauded calocane this latest of an extremely long list of failings, many hushed up. i am sure the millions we pay in compensation claims for the woeful service of the nhs. it needs to be called out. how many more people need to die before we do something drastic with the nhs? let's stop kneeling at it, stop worshipping it and indeed admit it has to be overhauled and quickly. on the topic of immigration, and he says this instead of stopping illegal immigration, this government has now decided to invest in it. i think what andy's talking about there is the amount of money thatis there is the amount of money that is being made by companies putting people all around the country. lots and lots of your comments to come throughout the rest of the show. get in touch all the usual ways. i'll be back soon. next, across the dope over to dover to see the prime minister's getting on with those smashing the criminal gang promises. don't miss it. i

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>> well . >> well. >> well. >> a very good afternoon to you. it's 4:00 pm and welcome to the martin daubney show on gb news. we're broadcasting live from the heart of westminster all across the uk. on today's show, nearly 5000 migrants have now crossed the channel in small boats since labour came into power. sir keir starmer promised to smash the gangs and draw a red line under

this business. but while the labour party's soft policies may be rolling out a red carpet to the people smugglers and grieving relatives whose lives were torn apart by nottingham triple killer valdo calocane say the nhs has blood on its hands after the psychotic killer was sectioned an astonishing four times and yet was released to go on to kill. is it time for heads to roll at the nottinghamshire nhs trust, one of the victims mothers, emma webber, spoke to gb news earlier. >> you read the report. if, if anybody's reading the report or even reading the headlines, you can see that there was gross negligence , and catastrophic negligence, and catastrophic failures . failures. >> emma webber, an inspiring mother and 32 year old romanian citizen ian pinter, who has been charged with stabbing a girl, eight times, an 11 year old eight times, an 11 year old eight times, an 11 year old eight times yesterday in leicester square . and there's a leicester square. and there's a vacancy with harry and meghan.

if you can stand working with them, that is, as their chief of staff has stepped down just three months into the role and this makes him the 18th senior figure from their team to leave since they got married. all of this and much more between now and 6:00. well, the show delight to have your company so a tory leader hopeful tom tugendhat, has thrown his hat in the ring today, given a speech about the riots, about the state of britain and guess who he blamed? yeah, nigel farage, the reckless rhetoric, apparently, of nigel farage stoked the riots. our political editor, chris hope , political editor, chris hope, said would you allow nigel back to the party? a simple one word answer said it all. no. do you believe the tory party has a future? chris told us an astonishing three out of five voters don't even care who the next leader

voters don't even care who the n

grace , barnaby and ian, who, in grace, barnaby and ian, who, in addition to having to deal with the unbearable and unimaginable grief they're going through, are doing so in the knowledge that this could have been prevented and should have been prevented, that there wasn't a single point of failure. but multiple and fundamental failures on the part of the nhs to manage valdo calocane treatment in a way that not only kept him safe, but most importantly kept others safe . a importantly kept others safe. a 32 year old man has appeared in court accused of stabbing an 11 year old tourist in london's leicester square. johan pinnock was charged with attempted murder and possessing a bladed article . prosecutors are article. prosecutors are claiming members of the public intervened when the girl was attacked just before lunchtime yesterday. it was thought that the girl's mother had also been hurt in that incident. however, it's now been confirmed that blood from her daughter's injuries had been mistaken for injuries had been mistaken for injuries of her own . the 13 year

injuries of her own. the 13 year old girl has become the latest young person to be convicted for her part in the widespread riots after admitting threatening unlawful violence outside a hotel housing asylum seekers. the teenager , who can't be named the teenager, who can't be named because of her age, sat with her parents as she admitted in court to the offences outside potters international hotel. the crown prosecution service said she was seen punching and kicking the entrance to that hotel. she'll be sentenced at basingstoke magistrates court next month . magistrates court next month. police have launched an urgent appeal to find a missing 12 year old girl from sittingbourne in kent. katie spice was last seen 15 miles away at canterbury east train station at around 5:00 on sunday night. she was wearing black leggings and a pink top. if you're watching on television, you can see the most recent cctv images released. police are urging anyone who may have seen her or knows where katie is, to call 999. conservative leadership hopeful

tom tugendhat has accused sir keir starmer of a failure of leadership over the disorder of the last two weeks. the former security minister has said that the disorder, seen on the uk streets was completely unacceptable and condemned racist thugs. his words as he opened a speech in central london. but mr tugendhat added that too often over the last two decades we have avoided being brutally honest about the underlying social unrest across society, preferring instead the warmth and false comfort. he said of denial and complacency. >> this has been the government's first real test and the prime minister fell short when we needed a strong government, we got a party in the mindset of opposition . we the mindset of opposition. we needed a leader. we got a lawyer waiting for the case to reach court. you have to be determined and aware throughout. you have to be ready to do the job from

day one in ukraine, president volodymyr zelenskyy has told the russian leader that the war is coming home in his most direct challenge so far to vladimir putin, that since the conflict began. >> it comes a week after a surprise counter—attack on the kursk region of russia . kursk region of russia. ukraine's military says it now controls 1000km2 of the border province. meanwhile, all of ukraine is currently under air raid alert amid russian drone attacks this morning and two ballistic missiles . donald trump ballistic missiles. donald trump has called joe biden's decision to quit the presidential race a coup. during a talk with the tech billionaire elon musk, the interview finally got underway on the social media platform x, with more than 1.3 million people tuning in. after a delay, though, which musk has blamed on a cyber attack, trump confirmed he will return to butler in pennsylvania in october after surviving an assassination attempt on the 13th of july. the us presidential candidates also criticised the eu and his democratic opponent, kamala

harris. >> i can tell you this we cannot have a democrat. we cannot have her. she's incompetent. she's as bad as biden in a different yeah, he hasn't done an interview since this whole, scam started. and say what you want. this was a coup. this was a coup of a president of the united states. he didn't want to leave. and they said, we can do it the nice way, or we can do it the hard way. >> here, an inquest into the death of the former england cricketer graham thorpe has opened today after his wife revealed the sportsman tragically took his own life, the inquest heard . graham thorpe the inquest heard. graham thorpe died after being struck by a train at a railway station in surrey. tributes have flooded in for the late cricketer after his death on the 5th of august. his family have since revealed he'd been suffering from depression and anxiety . and if you or and anxiety. and if you or anyone you know is suffering with mental health issues, you can of course contact samaritans on samaritans.org or call

116123. and art lovers were surprised at london zoo this morning as the latest banksy artwork was unveiled. the gorilla. the ninth animal themed piece, the elusive street artist has claimed in as many days, has drawn attractions from many people visiting the zoo , though people visiting the zoo, though the staff there haven't revealed whether they spotted him on cctv . whether they spotted him on cctv. those are the latest gb news headlines. for now i'm sam francis. your next update from me just after 4:30 for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code , alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com. >> forward slash alerts . >> forward slash alerts. >> forward slash alerts. >> thank you sam. now gb news can exclusively reveal that nearly 5000 small boats migrants have crossed the english channel since the labour party came into power and it comes as the former

head of border force warned this channel that sir keir starmer's promise to smash the gangs is a near impossible task. our homeland security editor , mark homeland security editor, mark white, has this report. >> at a compound on the outskirts of dover, a sobering illustration of the scale of the task facing the new labour government in their efforts to end the channel migrant crisis. row after row of small boats, hundreds of them, many now deflated and rolled up as we filmed, contractors dropped off more dinghies. the latest to have made the illegal crossing into uk waters. this is for rishi sunak . sir keir starmer's rishi sunak. sir keir starmer's focus is on going after the people smugglers, who have now sent thousands more migrants across the channel since labour came to power. but the former head of border force says tackling international criminal gangs will be extremely difficult without full

co—operation from many other governments. it is a very, very big ask, i think, to expect the uk to be able to smash the gangs if you like, without some form of international collaboration where powers can be used by other countries on their jurisdictions to bring people to justice to and prevent people and goods crossing borders, etc. rather than the uk being able to do this on their own. tony smith says there is no indication so far that the appetite of the smugglers and their customers has been in any way diminished since labour came to power. >> this is a hugely lucrative business. there is an unending supply of migrants pervading the eu border, many of whom are in various member states very keen to get across to the uk who are prepared to mortgage their lives effectively to get a place on a very dangerous vessel to get themselves into uk territorial waters. that narrative still

exists. i think, across europe and beyond. so the pull factor is very much there for now at least. >> the migrant boats will continue to stack up here as even the government acknowledges it will take some time for its new approach to impact the organised criminal gangs, making millions from their trade in human misery. mark white gb news >> well, i'm now joined by gb news homeland security editor mark white, who joins us from doven mark white, who joins us from dover. mark, can i talk a little bit with you about that compound? i've been to it myself. it's an astonishing place. it's a huge it's like a football pitch. right. and there are hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of those dinghies, all of which rocked up to our shores and have been impounded. mark, it's a graveyard to the failure of our government. tell us about that place. it's astonishing to look at. >> well, it does. it gives a

very sort of alarming indication of the scale of the problem that any prime minister will face in trying to deal with the people smuggling crisis across the engush smuggling crisis across the english channel, because it's not until you get the drone up as we did over that lot, not until you get the drone up as we did over that lot , that as we did over that lot, that you're able to see row after row of these small boats. and actually, the fact is most have been deflated and rolled up. so clearly if they were still full of air, it would be even more spectacular. but there are many hundreds of boats that have been seized there, others have been taken elsewhere, and eventually they will be properly disposed of . but at the they will be properly disposed of. but at the moment they will be properly disposed of . but at the moment they they will be properly disposed of. but at the moment they just sit there. a testament , really, sit there. a testament, really, to the scale of the crisis in the english channel. >> morgan it late. it lays it out in spectacular visual form. the sheer magnitude of this and of the task ahead. and there we 90, of the task ahead. and there we go, smashing the gangs was the

promise. but it seems just like rishi sunak before him. mark white that we can't smash the gangs, we can't stop the boats. it was meant to be a red line. in fact, it seems to be rolling out the red carpet . out the red carpet. >> well, you remember, of course, rishi sunak made stopping the boats one of his five key pledges, and many people thought at the time that that was a real hostage to fortune for him. and as it turned out, that, you know, that really plagued his premiership with every time we had a significant number of small boats coming across the english channel boats coming across the english channel, then the news reports would be reporting that it would be, piling more pressure onto the conservative government. and we never got to see if the rwanda deterrent was actually the deterrent that rishi sunak believed it would be, because no flights got off the ground before the general election. and we know it was then scrapped on the first day that sir keir

starmer got into office, and he himself now has made smashing the gangs his key pledge . so the gangs his key pledge. so that may well be another hostage to fortune because, in my opinion, from everything i've seen over the years, it will be incredibly difficult to dismantle the people smuggling gangsin dismantle the people smuggling gangs in any meaningful way. they are highly organised. they make many millions of pounds on a busy week in the channel and of course they span many different countries , so getting different countries, so getting the sort of extra territorial policing in those countries to be able to effectively dismantle those gangs will be extremely difficult . difficult. >> mark white at the port of dover , another incredible dover, another incredible report. thank you very much for joining us on gb news. always a pleasure. so what is our prime minister doing to smash the gangs on the labour party's soft policies? just rolling out a red carpet to the people smugglers.

well, joining me to discuss this in our studio is our reporter, adam cherry. adam, welcome to the studio. i want to talk to you about a political proposition put forward today by sir keir starmer to work in cahoots with giorgia meloni, the italian premier, on a so—called immigration migrant force, an illegal migrant force. this is closer ties with europol. it's yet more cosying up, perhaps to brussels. it sounds ponderous, it sounds slow. will it work? >> well, i mean, that's the question, isn't it ? question, isn't it? >> we shouldn't be surprised by this because he laid the groundwork for this arrangement, which was reportedly struck last month at the blenheim palace meeting of european leaders, he said in september 2023, almost a year ago, that he would be prepared to in coordination with europol and with giorgia meloni , europol and with giorgia meloni, to sign a some sort of deal with brussels, where they would take

a quota, a certain number of asylum seekers coming into the european union in exchange for a returns agreement with some of those coming across in small boats. now obviously at the time, the conservative then government completely tore them to shreds over this . or try to to shreds over this. or try to anyway, the likes of robert jenrick, who was then immigration minister, now, of course, leadership hopeful, saying this will mean 100,000 asylum seekers coming into the uk. i mean, it's a deal, isn't it? so the europe has to get something out of this in return, otherwise why bother making it? and the agreement? the suggestion was, as you say, soft on on borders. this won't work. this is not a strategy. and you talk a little bit about europol here, because it might sound more impressive than it really is. so it's, it's full name, the european union agency for law enforcement cooperation. i've written it down because it's so long. right? one of these typical bureaucratic messes from overin typical bureaucratic messes from over in the eu, 1400 staff based in the hague. it doesn't have any wresting powers. right? it can't do any of that stuff.

yeah. it just marshals the intelligence agencies and law enforcement bodies within each european member state. and supports them basically. so it's not as if you're going to have the navy in the in the channel stopping boats coming across. it's not going to do that. and given what we've seen in that package there, you see all those dinghies on the on the ground there. it's obviously a huge problem. 700 migrants on in some crossing on sunday alone, a new record since labour took power. and when you ask about this and you say, you know, in the downing street briefing on monday, just yesterday, it's the same sort of rhetoric. it's smash the gangs, it's send them, return those who come here illegally back to their home countries, which, you know, good luck if they don't have a passport. but they reject the characterisation that scrapping the rwanda gimmick, in their words, the rwanda deterrent, has in any way influenced this. they don't think it has the trouble with going downstream back to italy, though, adam, is that we,

the reports with facts for eu org couple of weeks ago and the facts of the matter is the 27 eu member states have had 4 million illegal immigrants arrive in the past nine years, 676,000 of them are in italy . are in italy. >> italy can't control its own borders. so how the jiggins is it meant to work in cahoots with the united kingdom to stop any of them getting to britain? why indeed, would they want to stop any of those people going towards britain? it would make sure they got rid of them themselves. these kind of diplomatic issues don't seem to actually deliver anything. >> well i mean that's certainly the argument the conservatives are going to make. and you have to ask why italy are so keen to make this deal. they have to get something in return. it's not they're not a charity here. so yeahi they're not a charity here. so yeah i think it's, it's a, it's a massive concern for them. also don't forget this border security command which is another component of labour's plan to address this, we asked if they'd actually recruited the border security commander who's in charge of this task force.

and yesterday downing street said they have no update on that yet. so we don't even have the person in charge of this new command yet, so a lot, a lot of serious questions for them coming up on this. >> and don't forget their favoured candidate , neil basu, favoured candidate, neil basu, who'd been in charge of counter—terror when islamic state were in charge. he didn't even want the job. perhaps that's the point, adam. perhaps it's a poisoned chalice. perhaps behind the scenes, there's a recognition that they can't sort the boats. perhaps they can't smash the gangs. >> well, look, that's why they're not putting a figure on this. they don't want to be caught out saying stop the boats means stop them. that means they're taking it to down zero. they're not making any commitment like that, i suspect, because they don't want to walk into that bear trap. >> adam. gerry. superb as ever. thanks for joining >> adam. gerry. superb as ever. thanks forjoining me here in the studio. now moving on. the families of the three nottingham stabbing victims have hit out at a bbc documentary focusing on killer valdo calocane after they weren't even told about the programme until it was finished. an astonishing story. they were only told two weeks before it was going out. it was a fait

accompli and they weren't given notice. i think that's wrong. join me after the break. i'm martin daubney on gb news. britain's news channel

welcome back. it's approaching 424. i'm martin daubney on gb news now. coming up, three police officers have won a discrimination case after a judge ruled that they were denied promotion because of their race and here's the point. they were white. now moving on. they were white. now moving on. the families of the three nottingham stabbing victims barnaby webber, grace o'malley—kumar and ian coates have criticised the mental health services who dealt with killer valdo calocane in the lead up to the attacks , saying lead up to the attacks, saying they have blood on their hands. emma webber, the mother of victim barnaby, spoke to gb news earlier and here's what she had to say. >> when you read the report. if

anybody is reading the report or even reading the headlines, you can see that there was gross negligence, and catastrophic failures which directly to led this individual not being treated properly, not being sectioned properly, even, and being released out into the community, if you're at that level, if you're a senior decision maker in the nhs in, in medicine, i would say the same within police forces as well. and you don't do your job properly, then you have to be held to account . held to account. >> well, emma webb's an astonishing woman. and the emma and the other relatives of the victims were not told about a bbc documentary focusing on valdo calocane until after it was finished. and joining me now to discuss this is media lawyer jonathan coe. jonathan welcome to the show. so the documentary went out last night called the nottingham attacks a search for answers. i was astonished to

learn in fact, so were the family. so were the victims. the bbc wasn't legally required to give them full notice until two weeks before it went out. as a fait accompli, and the family said they feel very let down by this. they're disappointed and alarmed, we expect a better and we deserve better. really? is it responsible? is it fair of the bbc to have done this? the families in grieving ? families in grieving? >> well, to answer your last question first, it certainly doesn't seem like it when i've figured out a lot of programs , figured out a lot of programs, for other broadcasters. and there are, some protections you need to ensure that your programme comes out fresh and, you know, you hopefully have some kind of scoop, which is a reasonable , expectation if reasonable, expectation if you've invested lots of time and energy in it . but it you've invested lots of time and energy in it. but it does seem

i've listened to the interview this dear lady gave to lbc as well , and she this dear lady gave to lbc as well, and she understandably was really upset that not only was she told very late in the day about this programme, but according to this lady, she asked for a full briefing as to the content of the programme that was refused. she was also asked, whether the programme makers would make some kind of reference to the fact that their view is they made not contributions to the programme. that was refused as well. and to quote this, this lady, her email to the editor of the programme received something of a dismissive response. so it does seem that the bbc has not shown sufficient, sensitivity towards people who must have been absolutely traumatised at the time and will inevitably suffer further trauma. watching the story of the events being played out on television . out on television. >> and that's the precise point.

in fact, emma webber said the thought of seeing that family, seeing their faces, this is the mother and the brother of valdo calocane. the thought of seeing that family, seeing their faces and hearing their voices. it bnngs and hearing their voices. it brings me unimaginable horror. it's so alarming and it's causing so much stress and trauma to people who are already shattered. it's almost cruel. okay, legally, there wasn't a line cross, but ethically , line cross, but ethically, jonathan, is this really the sort of thing that the licence payers money should be being spent on? this is a public interest story. surely a huge part of that story is taking the viewpoint of the grieving relatives. that's precisely their beef with the legal system, with the way this was a stitch up in their eyes as a manslaughter case, a mental health case. they didn't feel that was fair. they felt they weren't consulted to be not consulted. again, in the making of the documentary, in her

world's words, it seems almost cruel. >> well, i, i think it probably was cruel. i'm slightly hesitant because panorama is a wonderful programme. the bbc does does amazing work. i've programme. the bbc does does amazing work . i've worked with amazing work. i've worked with and i've worked against the bbc, it does seem to be one of those occasions where the bbc has dropped the ball. i think in their defence, you know , they, their defence, you know, they, they make amazingly good quality programmes. most of the time, but this, this lady's absolute heartbreak and distress and that. sure, surely those of the others who are the victims, relatives of the victims is completely understandable. and i think that the bbc didn't have to do very much to, accommodate their concerns. i've been through the ofcom. you talk about the law. you're quite right. there is no legal obligation, no legal line crossed here. in preparation for this interview, i went quickly

through the ofcom code , which, through the ofcom code, which, governs all broadcasters as also for the bbc. the bbc producer guidelines, and there's nothing in there that protects people who are not the subject of a programme. so it's to down the conscience and sensitivity of the programme makers. conscience and sensitivity of the programme makers . and if the programme makers. and if you're inviting me to agree with you're inviting me to agree with you that this was an instance of insensitivity , perhaps gross insensitivity, perhaps gross insensitivity, perhaps gross insensitivity to to, feeling, to families who not very long ago , families who not very long ago, you know, were horrendously traumatised. then i completely agree. i don't think this was, well handled. >> and jonathan, aside from the matter of taste journalistically , matter of taste journalistically, you know full well a right to reply as a part of any process. the family of valdo calocane had a right to reply. they were in this documentary, the families of those who lost their loved ones. they had no such right to reply. that was a specific and

deliberate journalistic decision taken by the bbc. it wasn't . taken by the bbc. it wasn't. they weren't forgotten about. they weren't forgotten about. they must have made that decision knowingly. and why do you think that was it? was it because they may have said something which upset their storyline, or they were just inconvenient ? inconvenient? >> well, the right to reply again, you're referring to the section seven obligation of the of ofcom code to be fair to your contribute it to your contributors. the problem is again i looked at the section seven. it doesn't it doesn't strictly speaking fall within that because that normally a right to reply apply. it kicks in when you're accused of doing something wrong. now here the family weren't accused of doing anything. the victims family weren't accused of doing anything wrong so strictly speaking, they didn't have what is colloquially called a right

to reply. but i completely agree that in the circumstances, in that in the circumstances, in that these the living victims of this, this damaged and, dangerous man were going to be traumatised again by this programme . you'd think that programme. you'd think that perhaps as an act of humanity, they would have given been given some opportunity to, to have their say, albeit briefly, about how this has affected them and if you think and you do think that that's what should have been done, then again, i agree . been done, then again, i agree. >> okay. thanks for being so honest and forthright, jonathan. code media lawyer, thanks for joining us. always a pleasure. and there's lots more still to come between now and 5:00. but first is your headlines and it's sam francis . sam francis. >> martin, thank you very much indeed. and good afternoon to

you. just after 4:30, we'll start this half hour with a breaking line coming to us from cambridge this afternoon. that emergency services searching for a 16 year old boy who got into difficulty while swimming in a lake in cambridgeshire , have lake in cambridgeshire, have they say now found a body? police have said they were called last night to reports of a teenager believed to be from essex in the water, struggling that was at burnside lakes formal identification, we understand, is still due to take place, but at this stage it is believed the police say, that that body is the missing teenagen that body is the missing teenager. at this stage, members of the public are also being asked to avoid the area and we will bring you any more details on that as we get it throughout the rest of this evening . in the rest of this evening. in other news, the prime minister is said to be considering a judge led public inquiry into the nottingham stabbings last june. it comes after the health secretary today acknowledged the nhs did make multiple and

fundamental failures. he says in the care given to valdo calocane, who killed grace o'malley—kumar , barnaby webber o'malley—kumar, barnaby webber andian o'malley—kumar, barnaby webber and ian coates last year , wes and ian coates last year, wes streeting says their deaths could and should have been prevented. the trust involved, though, insists it has improved what the care quality commission have uncovered is deeply distressing. most of all for the families of grace barnaby and ian , who in addition to having ian, who in addition to having to deal with the unbearable and unimaginable grief they're going through, are doing so in the knowledge that this could have been prevented and should have been prevented and should have been prevented, that there wasn't a single point of failure, but multiple and fundamental failures on the part of the nhs to manage valdo calocane treatment in a way that not only kept him safe, but most importantly kept others safe . a importantly kept others safe. a man has appeared in court charged with attempted murder after an 11 year old was stabbed in leicester square in central

london just after lunchtime yesterday. 32 year old johan pinnock is accused of stabbing her eight times after grabbing the girl while she was with her mother . a 13 the girl while she was with her mother. a 13 year old has been convicted over the recent riots across the uk. the girl who can't be named because of her age, pleaded guilty to threatening unlawful violence outside a hotel, housing asylum seekers in aldershot in hampshire and apologies there for the wrong footage. if you're watching on television . in other watching on television. in other news, an investigation has started into a crowd surge at boardmasters music festival in cornwall that left seven people injured, among them was a woman who was fractured her knee, while another person says she had ten people fall on top of her. that happened at one of the main stages on friday, though it did reopen the following day. and finally, some news from the euro 2024 final. we now know that more than £10 million was spentin that more than £10 million was spent in shops on beer alone. on

the day of england's game with spain. there was also a surge in spending on drinks and snacks, as well as for the olympics . nut as well as for the olympics. nut purchases apparently increased 60% on the friday of the opening ceremony compared to the previous week . that's definitely previous week. that's definitely got to be an answer to a quiz. those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm sam francis. your next update at 5:00 for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . forward slash alerts. >> thank you sam. now hundreds of you have been in touch so far with your series from nigel farage valdo calocane, the stabbing at leicester square and how do we ever stop the boats? if you want to get your voice in and get stuck in, it's gbnews.com/yoursay. that's how you get in touch. i'll out some of your messages before the

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channel. welcome back. your time is 4.39. i'm martin daubney on gb news now. meghan and harry have lost yet another chief of staff days before they begin their tour of colombia. do you fancy applying? if you can stand them? but before that, three white police officers have won a discrimination case after an employment judge ruled that they were passed over for promotion because of their race. because they were white. the officers argued that thames valley police had deliberately overlooked them to boost diversity in its senior ranks, and the tribunal heard that a superintendent from the force was told to make it happen by appointing an asian sergeant to the rank of detective inspector. is this two tiered policing in action? two tiered

recruitment indeed. well, to discuss this , i'm now joined by discuss this, i'm now joined by the former metropolitan police officer , chris hobbs. chris, officer, chris hobbs. chris, welcome to the show . always welcome to the show. always a delight to have your company. we're here about two tiered policing on the streets. all the time. chris, is this an example of two tier policing in the recruitment stage? >> it's a good point, martin. i'm always happy to talk about two tier policing on the streets , two tier policing on the streets, >> so given the opportunity, i will go on and on about that. but this is clearly a massive embarrassment for thames valley. it's almost defies belief that such a situation could be allowed to occur. >> and it's not only unfair, grossly unfair on the three officers, but of course, the officers, but of course, the officer who was promoted. >> i don't i'm assuming that promotion won't stand, >> that individual will be known throughout the force that individual will have to put up with this cross to bear as it were, for probably two, three,

four years as that person, >> in that in this particular case. >> so it's a massive mistake . we >> so it's a massive mistake. we all want to see more black and asian officers, officers from minority groups in the police. but the bottom line is, and the wonderful asian and black officers, i used to work with were basically want a level playing field. >> they don't want to be given preferential treatment. >> they want to get into the police and they want to get on in the police by virtue of their own ability, not by being given a favour because of their ethnicity, >> so yeah, a huge mistake by thames valley. >> we've very interesting to see what their response is. >> and of course, in terms of recruitment at all, forces are finding a bit difficult at the moment. that isn't going to do them. >> an awful lot of favours for those who wish to apply to join , those who wish to apply to join, be they white or from an ethnic minority group. >> chris, do you think the problem here is that the police themselves self—flagellate they wear hair shirts all the time .

wear hair shirts all the time. they call themselves institutionally racist . reports institutionally racist. reports after reports after report says that as a consequence of that historical legacy, the yoke around their shoulders almost. are they now swinging the pendulum too far the opposite way? are they becoming racist in the opposite way? they're being discriminatory clearly and provably. in this case against white officers. >> well, we do have this this one example. >> and often you get one example, don't you, where something goes wrong in policing and straight away everything is smeared in policing, >> every officer is sort of smeared. every false perhaps is smeared. every false perhaps is smeared. i think i think basically it's a warning shot across the bows. it's what can happenif across the bows. it's what can happen if a force tries too hard. >> as i say, we do want chris, if i may if i may intervene. >> i was contacted by a copper, a pal of mine in nottinghamshire last night who said this routinely happens. it's commonplace. this is now the fabnc commonplace. this is now the fabric of recruitment, the same as it is, by the way , in the

as it is, by the way, in the raf, where we saw people being turned away because they're white, whether we like it or not, the vast majority of the country is white. the vast majority of coppers are white. this seems to be happening all the time. i know you're doing your best here, chris. you're a loyal former police officer to stand up for the force. but i hear all the time this is routine. this is now common. this is the new normal. >> well, if it is routine , and >> well, if it is routine, and i'm not so sure it is, because the bottom line is you will get people unhappy with the promotion process where they've missed out. who may assume that this is what's happening. but i don't doubt that in some places, in some forces this may happen. >> and fair play to the four officers or the officers involved in this who have actually the three officers who stood up and said, no, we're not having this because to take on your own force hierarchy is something really that has to be admired. there's a saying in policing about doing someone's legs. you upset the force hierarchy, and somewhere along the line, that hierarchy will do

your legs in some way, shape or form. i'd like to think those days are behind us. i'm not entirely sure. perhaps they are , entirely sure. perhaps they are, but maybe if this is happening in our forces, what's happened in our forces, what's happened in thames valley will in fact encourage officers who feel they've been discriminated against for whatever reason, to put their hands up, go to the federation and say, right, we want to take our bosses on. >> and if there are recriminations, then again, the bosses need to be taken on again. >> but having said that, the quality of bosses varies hugely and we have got some brilliant police bosses in the country and we've got 1 or 2 perhaps, maybe need to go back to school and learn a little bit about personnel management and managing their officers. >> but, by and large , this is >> but, by and large, this is going to be a bit of a wake up call, without a doubt. and fair play call, without a doubt. and fair play to the officers. and i do feel for the officer who in fact was promoted when they shouldn't have been, because, as i say, that will stay with that officer for a few years. >> okay. well, i'd like to say a big tip of the hat to detective

inspector philip turner robson. inspector philip turner robson. inspector graham horton and custody inspector kirsteen, bishop of thames valley police . bishop of thames valley police. well done to standing up to the system. and if you want to come on the show to talk about it, i'd be delighted to have any or all of you on. thanks for joining us to talk about this. former max police officer, chris hobbs. always a pleasure. thank you. now, bad news for harry and meghan as their chief of staff has suddenly jumped ship just three months into his job, making him one of at least 18 people to have legged it from the sussexes since 2018. i'm martin daubney on gb news, britain's news channel

welcome back. it's 4.49. i'm martin daubney on gb news now. should foxhunters be protected as an

ethnic minority ? whereas the ethnic minority? whereas the world gone completely and utterly barking mad. no guesses for what my thoughts on that are , for what my thoughts on that are, but more on that later. but first, yes , not another one. first, yes, not another one. prince harry and meghan markle's chief of staff, josh kettler, has quit after just three chief of staff, josh kettler, has quit afterjust three months has quit after just three months in the role, but this resignation might not come as a complete shock as the sussexes have seen at least 18 members of staff legate since their marriage just six years ago. and let's bring in our royal correspondents, cameron walker in the studio, resplendent in sky blue. thank you. say for more. so they seem to have a bit of a hard job hanging onto staff. what happened here? >> yes, certainly a huge staff turnover isn't it? josh kettler, this is the guy that was meant to guide prince harry through the next stage of his life. he was appointed in may, just before the invictus 10th anniversary. he accompanied prince to harry saint paul's cathedral in london. he also went with harry and meghan to their largely successful tour, actually of nigeria, so it all

seemed pretty happy. but then, in a shock revelation reported first by the mail last night, josh kettler has quit. then about 6 or 7 hours later, a publication which let's say is fairly favourable to the sussexes reported that he was only ever hired on a trial basis, that that he left by mutual agreements and that they agreed. harry and meghan and josh that it was not the correct fit for them. fair enough. but my question is we have very shortly a columbia visit coming up with the duke and duchess of sussex. if the departure was by mutual agreements, why on earth would you make that happen ? would you make that happen? around the same time as the columbia tour, when you know it's going to be such a big distraction? that's the problem here. >> and the tour in itself has faced a lot of criticism. it's been called a faux royal tour, a bit like we saw before. was it in nigeria where they where they went there? so they're going to need a good pr guy. this guy is an absolute corking pr professional without him, it throws the entire tour into

chaos, does it not? >> yeah, that's absolutely his background. and harry and meghan are really going to want to focus on online safety and ending violence against children. but of course, all of thatis children. but of course, all of that is going to be overshadowed, perhaps by the departure of their key aide. yes, they do have other pr people , but of course, everyone people, but of course, everyone thinks back to the last six years when it comes to meghan and harry. if you remember back in 2018, their former communications secretary jason knauf wrote an email to prince william's , private secretary william's, private secretary alleging that meghan voicing his concerns that meghan had allegedly been bullying kensington palace staff. now, meghan has always denied that her lawyers have always denied that. but of course, that's something which is bubbling under the surface equally. harry and meghan have had very good relationships with a number of staff members who have left of their own accord, and they've wished each other well publicly. so it's a bit of a grey area as to what's really gone on with jason kettler here. sorry. josh kettler here. good. >> now can we talk a little bit about prince william's beard? yeah, because he gave a, i thought, a wonderful, well done message to the british olympic team on the way back. can we get

a picture on screen sporting some rather splendid face fuzz ? some rather splendid face fuzz? now, a lot of people, it's. i think we're going to get on screen now. it's divided the public. in fact, there he is. it's in an online poll. cameron. it's in an online poll. cameron. it's the new brexit. 52% in favour, 48% against offended the traditionalists. i think he looks wonderful. what about you? >> well, it's clearly a bit divisive. i was a bit shocked when i saw it. however, i think he also looks quite good with the beard. what we don't know is whether this is just a laid back prince william in holiday mode, can't be bothered to shave, or is this a new look for him? because perhaps it makes him look a bit more chiselled. his ancestors, his grandfather, great grandfather all had beards. and of course his brother prince harry also has a beard. so we'll have to wait and see whether or not he keeps it. but i think he's certainly popular with the ladies and the onune popular with the ladies and the online royal fans have gone absolutely wild over the last couple of days. when i tweeted the picture of prince william with his beard, it got a lot of impressions. a lot of people talking online right across the world. >> yeah, in fact, they're calling it hot fuzz, and it makes you wonder whether it stick around because as you say,

is it just a holiday beard and is it just a holiday beard and is it just a holiday beard and is it just a disguise? like a lot of my mates, they have a beard because they're getting a bit thin on top. >> well, quite possibly. i'm not going to comment on what isn't on prince william's head. and of course is the princess of wales going to like it as a well? of course she is married to prince william and the three children george, charlotte and louis. wonder what they think of their papa's beard as well. so we'll have to wait and see come september when he's back on royal engagements. if that beard is there or if he has very much shaved. >> maybe cameron walk is part of the royal family modernising course now. beards are allowed in the military. maybe they're now allowed as well. and the royal family, karen walker, always an absolute pleasure. thank you very much. now next we're going to be crossing over to dover to see how the prime minister is getting on with those plans to smash those criminal gangs. you would not want to miss this package. an astonishing piece of footage via drone of a dinghy graveyard. hundreds and hundreds of abandoned dinghies setting out the sheer magnitude of the task facing us. i'm martin daubney on gb news, britain's news channel.

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>> a very, very good afternoon to you. it's 5 pm. and welcome to you. it's 5 pm. and welcome to the martin daubney show on gb news. we're broadcasting live from the heart of westminster all across the uk. on today's show, grieving relatives whose lives were torn apart by nottingham triple killer valdo calocane say the nhs has blood on its hands after the psychotic killer was sectioned four times

and yet still released and went on to kill. is it time for heads to roll at the nottinghamshire nhs trust? one of the victims mothers, emma webber, spoke to gb news earlier today. >> when you read the report, if, if anybody's reading the report or even reading the headlines, you can see that there was gross negligence, and catastrophic failures . failures. >> emma webber there an astonishing woman and nearly 5000 migrants have now crossed the channel in small boats since labour party came into power. sir keir starmer promised to smash the gangs and draw a red line under the issue. but the labour party's soft policies rolling out a red carpet to the people smugglers and a pro foxhunting group, says foxhunter should be protected under equality laws. in the same way as the roma community and lgbtq+ people are. they right or are they bonkers? we're hosting that foxy debate later .

foxy debate later. well, to the show. always a pleasure to have your company. the triple killing of those people in nottingham by valdo calocane deeply moved. the nafion calocane deeply moved. the nation cast a long shadow over my home city of nottingham. in fact, ian coates, one of the murdered people, was killed on the street behind the road where i grew up as a teenager. i'm about to speak to the director of a mental health charity who thinks the failings are systemic . thinks the failings are systemic. failings of the families have been so badly let down marks a new low in the nhs and we must, must learn from this. get in touch. hundreds of your emails and so far your say is the way to get in touch is to go to gbnews.com/yoursay. but before all of that is your headlines andifs all of that is your headlines and it's sam francis . and it's sam francis. >> martin, thank you very much

and good evening to you. it's just after 5:00. the top story from the newsroom tonight. the prime minister is said to be considering a judge led public inquiry into the nottingham stabbings last june. it comes after the health secretary today acknowledged the nhs has made multiple and fundamental failures in the care given to valdo calocane, who killed grace o'malley—kumar, barnaby webber andian o'malley—kumar, barnaby webber and ian coates last year. wes streeting says their deaths can and should have been prevented, though the trust involved insists it has improved . what insists it has improved. what the care quality commission have uncovered is deeply distressing , uncovered is deeply distressing, most of all for the families of grace , barnaby and ian, who, in grace, barnaby and ian, who, in addition to having to deal with the unbearable and unimaginable grief they're going through, are doing so in the knowledge that this could have been prevented and should have been prevented , and should have been prevented, that there wasn't a single point of failure. but multiple and fundamental failures on the part of the nhs to manage valdo

calocane treatment in a way that not only kept him safe, but most importantly kept others safe. in other news, a 32 year old man has appeared in court accused of stabbing an 11 year old tourist in london's leicester square just after lunchtime yesterday. johan pinto has been charged with attempted murder and possessing a bladed article. prosecutors claim members of the pubuc prosecutors claim members of the public intervened when the girl was attacked just before 1:00. it was thought that the girl's mother had also been hurt. however, it has now been confirmed that blood from her daughter's injuries had been mistaken for injuries of her own . mistaken for injuries of her own. the 13 year old girl has become the latest young person to be convicted for her part in the widespread riots, after admitting threatening unlawful violence outside of a hotel housing asylum seekers. the teenager, who can't be named because of her age, sat with her parents in court as she admitted to the offences outside potters international hotel. the crown prosecution service said she was

seen punching and kicking the entrance to the hotel. she will be sentenced at basingstoke magistrates court on the 30th of september. and just a recap on the breaking news, we brought you in the last half hour or so that a body has been found in the hunt for a 16 year old who went missing at a lake in cambridgeshire. emergency services had been searching burnside lakes after reports that a boy , believed to be from that a boy, believed to be from essex, was struggling in the water while swimming with friends. formal identification is still due to take place, but police say they do believe the bodyis police say they do believe the body is that of the missing boy and at this stage, members of the public are being asked to avoid the area . police have avoid the area. police have launched an urgent appeal to find a missing 12 year old girl from sittingbourne in kent. katie spicer was last. katie spicer was last seen 15 miles away at canterbury east train station at around 5:00 on sunday evening. she was wearing black black leggings and a pink top. you can see they're the latest

cctv images released by police . cctv images released by police. they're now urging anyone who has seen her or may know where she is, to call 999. the conservative leadership hopeful tom tugendhat has accused the prime minister, sir keir starmer, of a failure of leadership over the recent disorder. in the last two weeks, across the country. the former security minister said the disorder seen on uk streets was completely unacceptable and condemned what he called racist thugs as he opened a speech in central london. but mr tugendhat added that too often, he says over the last two decades or more we have avoided being brutally honest about the underlying social unrest across society. referring, he says instead the warmth and false comfort of denial and complacency. >> this has been the government's first real test and the prime minister fell short when we needed a strong government. we got a party in the mindset of opposition. we

needed a leader, we got a lawyer waiting for the case to reach court. you have to be determined and aware throughout. you have to be ready to do the job from day one. >> tom tugendhat speaking earlier this afternoon. well, news from ukraine president volodymyr zelenskyy has told the russian leader that the war is coming home in his most direct challenge so far to vladimir putin since the conflict began. it comes a week after a surprise counter—attack on the kursk region of russia. ukraine's military says it now controls 1000km2 of the border province. meanwhile, all of ukraine is currently under an air raid alert amid russian drone attacks this morning and two ballistic missile strikes . donald trump missile strikes. donald trump has called joe biden's decision to quit the presidential race a coup. during a talk with the tech billionaire elon musk last night, the interview finally got underway on the social platform x with more than 1.3 million people tuning in live. after,

though, a delay which musk blamed on a cyber attack, trump has confirmed he will return to pennsylvania in october after surviving that assassination attempt. the us presidential candidates also criticised the eu and his opponent kamala harris. >> i can tell you this we cannot have a democrat. we cannot have her. she's incompetent. she's as bad as biden in a different yeah. she hasn't done an interview since this whole, scam started. and say what you want. this was a coup. this was a coup of a president of the united states. he didn't want to leave. and they said, we can do it. the nice way, or we can do it the hard way. >> and if you haven't heard already and you've missed the surprise at london zoo, well , surprise at london zoo, well, banksy has unveiled his latest piece of artwork today. the gorilla is the ninth animal themed piece. the elusive street artist has claimed in as many days. artist has claimed in as many days . those are the latest days. those are the latest headunes days. those are the latest headlines from the gb newsroom. for now, i'm sam francis. your

next update just after 530 for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gb news. >> .com. forward slash alerts . >> .com. forward slash alerts. >> .com. forward slash alerts. >> thank you very much, sam. now the families of the three nottingham stabbing victims, barnaby webber, grace o'malley—kumar and ian coates have criticised the mental health services who dealt with the killer. valdo calocane in the killer. valdo calocane in the lead up to the attacks, saying they have blood on their hands. emma webber, the mother of victim barnaby webber, spoke to gb news earlier and here's what she had to say when you read the reports. >> if anybody's reading the report or even reading the headlines, you can see that there was gross negligence, and catastrophic failures which directly led to this individual

not being treated properly, not being sectioned properly, even, and being released out into the community, if you're at that level, if you're a senior decision maker in the nhs in, in medicine, i would say the same within police forces as well. and you don't do your job properly, then you have to be held to account . held to account. >> well, emma webber is an astonishing woman. and let's bnngin astonishing woman. and let's bring in now marjorie wallace, the founder of the mental health charity sane for her. take. marjorie, welcome to the show. an astonishing catalogue of failures that led up to that triple killing in nottingham. valdo calocane was sectioned under the mental health act four times, and yet he was released and the nhs simply lost track of him because he chose to disengage with the services and went on to take those three precious lives. an astonishing

systemic joined up failure. who's accountable and what needs to be done? >> my goodness me. i mean, i've been to over 100 of such inquiries and reports into, terrible, horrific and unnecessary killings such as these . and it seems we just these. and it seems we just aren't learning the lessons. it's the same litany classic utany it's the same litany classic litany of failures that are provided now, in the case of valdo calocane, the problem was that, they gave him a choice, the right to not take his medication, but stay in the community. they gave him the choice of disengaging with services so that he could just simply get lost in the community. and they discharged him on the four occasions far too early, when he was far too ill. now, his family were saying

just how his mental health was deteriorating. so how is it that they couldn't assess the risk he posed and in fact, they assessed him at low risk. now we wonder all the time, and we campaign all the time, and we campaign all the time that we should balance the risks of someone who is desperately ill, such as he is desperately ill, such as he is , but balance his rights with is, but balance his rights with the rights of families and the rights and safety of the public. and this is what seems to happen and fail again. and again. >> and the fact of the matter is now barnaby webber, grace o'malley—kumar and ian coates, they have no rights. they've been killed, they're gone. the family are now trying to pick up the pieces . marjorie, they're the pieces. marjorie, they're saying this is a shocking failure and they are questioning how and why these people in the nottinghamshire nhs trust are still in their position . we hear

still in their position. we hear all the time, marjorie, lessons must be learned . we will change must be learned. we will change this moving forward. you've just laid out very eloquently. that doesn't seem to happen . what do doesn't seem to happen. what do we need to do to stop any more of these tragedies taking place, and do the family have a point? as emma webber have a point? should somebody be held accountable? should somebody be sacked for this ? sacked for this? >> i was so moved by emma webber and what she said and what the dignity of the families. and it's a dignity, the families of the victims. there's also the family of valdo calocane who were seeking help and were just simply ignored . what seems is we simply ignored. what seems is we have a psychiatric system which ignores families. it should be mandatory that when a family fings mandatory that when a family rings up saying that a member is deteriorating mental health, having delusions , having command having delusions, having command thoughts that make them do terrible things, it should be written down. it should be communicated, and that should be taken into the assessment of

risk. so the first thing we have to do is have a culture that includes families and people close to the person. the second thing that we need to do is that we are taking these risks simply because we don't have the beds available, we don't have the qualified staff available. do you know how many beds that we have lost adult psychiatric beds since 2000, we have halved the number of psychiatric beds since 2000. we have a huge shortage of nurses , doctors, counsellors and nurses, doctors, counsellors and so what? there's a big incentive because it's cheaper, is to keep a person out of hospital and say they are in quotes, cared for in they are in quotes, cared for in the community. now, we believe that there should be a balance here, that if somebody is severely ill, there should be a safe place for them to go where they're safe for themselves as well as other people, and that it shouldn't be a question of resource that every trust should

have available beds available for people like him who clearly posed a risk . and instead of posed a risk. and instead of allowing him to drift around in the community. now that doesn't pertain to everybody having to go at all because the majority of people with mental illness are never, ever violent . so are never, ever violent. so where if they can't cope with a few people, the relatively few people who become so ill that they commit these terrible, terrible acts, they can't cope with the view, what's happening to the rest of mental patients? you know, we have calls from people. one person called us up, the other day and they said, i would have had to have already committed suicide or posed a threat to other people before i would qualify to the threshold. you need to get to, to actually be taken into hospital and given care and treatment. now this is what we hear all the time is that it isn't available. the fundamental resources aren't there and that people's lives

are being put at risk and their health has been put at risk, and the people's peace of mind is put at risk. and we mustn't get the public terrified it doesn't happen very often, but when it happens , it is terrible, as happens, it is terrible, as we've just seen with emma webber . we've just seen with emma webber. >> well, we had julian hendy on the founder of 100 families earlier on, no doubt. you know, mr hendy, his father was murdered in two thousand and seven. there are between 100 and 120 cases like this every year. so it's alarmingly common and way too prevalent in our society. i know this part of nottingham. i grew up on the street, one road away from where ian coates was murdered in fact, ian coates was murdered in fact, i did my university dissertation on the prevalence in that area for care in the community facilities to be foisted upon communities where they have low social cohesion. they have little political resistance. and we tend to see as a consequence, people wandering around in a state of disarray, off the medicated, off the unwell, and

it feels like an accident waiting to happen. marjorie wallace back when i was a kid , wallace back when i was a kid, mapperley hospital would have been containing people like this, secure institutions. they were deemed unfashionable. they were deemed unfashionable. they were swept away. we shouldn't treat people like that anymore. is there an argument to bring back the way we used to do things, rather than having care in the community, instead safely putting people like valdo calocane in compounded institutions where they can be kept safe and the public can be kept safe and the public can be kept safe. >> well, i wouldn't go back to the kind of asylums that we used to have because we know how they were abused and how they were overcrowded. but what we could go back to is the idea is that for a period of time, people need to feel that they can. they're safe in themselves , that they're safe in themselves, that they can be observed, that they can be rigorously followed up when they are discharged back into the community. and where

there is a place available for them when they need it, when they're in crisis, and when they pose a risk , that is what we're pose a risk, that is what we're lacking. and every trust should have several beds available for this . they should have a have several beds available for this. they should have a teams of people who are experienced enough and risk assessment so they don't make so many mistakes as they do, and that we should be, as i said before, including the concerns of families of both sides , including the families sides, including the families far more in the care and treatment, so that they have a voice as well as the patient . voice as well as the patient. >> wise words, well spoken. and marjorie wallace, the founder of mental health charity sane, thank you very , very much for thank you very, very much for joining us and sharing your expertise on the show today. thank you. well, moving on, tory leadership hopeful tom tugendhat has blamed the collapse of social trust on the recent riots, saying this has been fuelled by misinformation. the rise of both islamist and far right extremism and also by the

reckless political rhetoric of that man. nigel farage, the leader, of course, of reform uk. well does he have a point? well, let's get the latest now from our political editor, christopher hope. chris, welcome back to the show. so when we spoke a couple of hours ago, i just let you know the inbox here @gbnews. let's say, isn't particularly happy with the idea that we can blame nigel for farage this. the reckless rhetoric as mr tom tugendhat put it, julie says this. it speaks volumes that politicians like tom are piling in on nigel farage. they're scared to death because they know that farage and the reform party could trounce them at the next election . and you told me, election. and you told me, chris, earlier about an astonishing report, an astonishing report, an astonishing poll, which says people don't even care who the next conservative leader is. tell us more . tell us more. >> that's right. martin. yeah. so i'm here in rusi, the royal united services institute . it's

united services institute. it's a building on whitehall where a couple of hours ago, we heard from tom tugendhat. he's one of the six individuals fighting to be the next leader of the tory party. he took aim at nigel farage in terms, he said, that the remarks by nigel farage questioning what the police were telling us after the killing of those three children in southport, last week or two weeks ago now, i think it was, was not leadership. it was deeply irresponsible. and dangerous, he said in a wider speech. he talked about, he felt that too many people, were were living in communities shorn of pride, parked on benefits and forgotten. that sense of trust is collapsing. he said that police should give out more information , not less, almost information, not less, almost slightly agreeing with farage, and sense that it wasn't clear the individual individual's background involved in in the in the killing of those children. but clearly he made very clear he had no, no, no truck with nigel farage. no, he could not join the tory party if he became leader. no, he would not work

with the reform uk if tugendhat wins the leadership, he was asked a question by me about the point about the concern that the almost an apology is required from the tory government for failing these communities for 14 years. and here's what he had to say . say. >> how do we handle this? right? and we need to make sure that what we're doing is we are changing the way that we look at policing across the uk, but also we look at the way that we treat the economy. and this is why i was so supportive of the levelling up agenda. this is why i was so supportive of investment, because if you look at these communities, if you look at these towns, you can see time and again that the level of joblessness in these communities has either flatlined or in some cases increased the level of personal gdp increase has been zero. and in fact, in some cases negative. and so what we're seeing is a pattern of civic and economic failure , not over a few economic failure, not over a few years, but actually over many generations. in some cases. and that's something that we've got to get right .

to get right. >> that's tom tugendhat speaking there as a shadow security spokesman for the tory party. he also took a firm aim at sir keir starmer, saying that the pm's suggestion was a standing army of police officers ready to ready to snuff out those those the fighting last week was a new line without content, he said that this wasn't . he was also that this wasn't. he was also said that we needed a leader. this country. last week we got a lawyer waiting for the case to reach court. so quite strong attacks there on on sir keir starmer, the prime minister, you mentioned a polling i mentioned earlier. quite shocking. ipsos mori poll out this lunchtime. martin. it found it find that to 62% . nearly nearly two thirds of 62%. nearly nearly two thirds of people don't care who becomes the next tory leader. that's two nearly two thirds more alarmingly, amongst tory voters, it says that 36% of tory voters

in the election last month don't care who the next leader is. i would suggest to me the tory party is a long way to go to being relevant again in our national life. >> astonishing data. there thanks for filling us in there. chris hobe , always a pleasure. chris hobe, always a pleasure. now gb news can exclusively reveal that nearly 5000 illegal immigrants have arrived in the uk on small boats since the labour party took power. we'll be getting the reaction of a former chief immigration officer next. i'm martin daubney on gb britain's news

welcome back. it's 526. i'm martin daubney on gb news now before we move on i've had some very, very moving emails today, particularly along the story of valdo calocane in the triple killer from nottingham. and i spoke earlier and this is a true

story. the calocane can claim benefits when he's in a secure hospital. you can't do that in prison, but he can legally claim benefits. £390 a month. can you believe it? if he's in for 20 years, that would allow him to a tax free lump sum when he comes out. and anybody by the way, in a similar position in a secure, hospital situation, not prison, that would give him £94,000 upon a release of 20 years. jack says, why on earth is valdo calocane allowed to claim benefits whilst in hospital? what kind of ridiculous law is that? it should be stopped . that? it should be stopped. jack, you can probably guess where my opinions lie on this. now gb news can exclusively reveal that nearly 5000 small boat migrants have crossed the engush boat migrants have crossed the english channel since the labour party came to power. i can now speak with the former chief immigration officer of the uk border force, kevin saunders. kevin, welcome to the show once again. the rhetoric before the

election was to stop the boats. kevin saunders, if you're there and now we have the rhetoric of smashing the gangs , it seems smashing the gangs, it seems that the boat smugglers, the people smugglers , they didn't people smugglers, they didn't get that memo. and now kevin saunders, there's a deal in the pipeline between sir keir starmer and giorgia meloni , a starmer and giorgia meloni, a political deal downstream in italy. let's just be real about this, kevin . the italians can't this, kevin. the italians can't control their own borders. 676,000 illegal immigrants have appeared in italy in the last nine years. is a bureaucratic deal nine years. is a bureaucratic deal. all that time away in italy going to have the vaguest impact on the shores at dover , impact on the shores at dover, >> basically the short answer is probably no. >> but, this is a very interesting, deal because of idea of a deal, because giorgia

meloni is a right wing politician. she's probably further to the right than rishi sunak. >> so for keir starmer to be, buddying up with her, i find very surprising. >> i mean, italy are looking to do their own rwanda type deal with albania, so , you know, with albania, so, you know, everything that the italians are doing would seem to be the opposite to what labour want to do. >> so i am surprised that, that mr starmer is trying to, get some sort of deal with her now, he said that he wants to change europol. now, i don't know if you know, but europol is a very strange organisation. it's the sort of police force that isn't a police force, if you understand me. for example, europol cannot arrest eu

citizens. >> they're really. >> they're really. >> yeah, i know, it's funny , >> yeah, i know, it's funny, isn't it? it's, it's really an intelligence type organisation. >> more than a police force. >> more than a police force. >> and starmer said that he wants to, up the number of british police officers working with europol . that in itself with europol. that in itself isn't a bad idea that the thing that does worry me slightly is every time he makes an announcement, he's sending british police officers somewhere. soon there won't be enough british police officers left in the uk to control the riots. >> so , i find it surprising now >> so, i find it surprising now what the what we've done. >> i mean, we've helped the hauans >> i mean, we've helped the italians out before , when we italians out before, when we were in the eu, we deployed cutters at two of our cutters to the mediterranean, to help the hauans the mediterranean, to help the italians out round sicily. we

frequently deployed officers to frontex. and again, we weren't full members of frontex. we were only associate members , to help only associate members, to help the italians out, particularly again in sicily. so we've got a bit of a tradition of helping the italians out . but what what the italians out. but what what meloni wants, he wants the rest of europe to jump on board with her and class illegal migration as the number one issue for europe. of course, at the moment it's drugs, but so she's got to get all 27 members of the eu to agree that that that illegal migration is now the number one european topic. and i think there's more chance of planting fog than that . fog than that. >> yeah. and i think the notion, kevin saunders, that 27 member states will agree on that is about as likely as me flapping

my arms and flying to the moon. always a pleasure to have you on the on the show. kevin saunders, always a delight. now there's lots more still to come between now and 6:00. as more people venture out to take advantage of the summer weather, several parts of the uk are reporting an upsurge in so—called seagull muggings. we'll have more on that in a bit. but first is your headunes that in a bit. but first is your headlines with sam francis . headlines with sam francis. >> very good afternoon to you. it's just after 5:30, the top story this hour. the prime minister is said to be considering a judge led public inquiry into the nottingham stabbings last june. it comes after the health secretary today acknowledged the nhs has made multiple and fundamental failures . he says, multiple and fundamental failures. he says, in multiple and fundamental failures . he says, in the care failures. he says, in the care given to valdo calocane, who killed grace o'malley—kumar, barnaby webber and ian coates last year. wes streeting says their deaths could and should have been prevented, though the trust involved insists it has improved. >> what the care quality commission have uncovered is

deeply distressing. >> most of all, for the families of grace barnaby and ian , who in of grace barnaby and ian, who in addition to having to deal with the unbearable and unimaginable grief they're going through, are doing so in the knowledge that this could have been prevented and should have been prevented, that there wasn't a single point of failure, but multiple and fundamental failures on the part of the nhs to manage valdo calocane treatment in a way that not only kept him safe, but most importantly, kept others safe . a importantly, kept others safe. a 32 year old man has appeared in court today accused of stabbing an 11 year old tourist in london's leicester square. johann pinnock has been charged with attempted murder and possessing a bladed article . possessing a bladed article. prosecutors have claimed members of the public intervened when the girl was attacked just before lunchtime yesterday . it before lunchtime yesterday. it was initially thought that the girl's mother had also been hurt. however, it's been later confirmed that blood from her daughter's injuries had been mistaken for injuries of her own .

mistaken for injuries of her own. a 13 year old has been convicted over the recent riots across the uk. the girl, who can't be named because of her age, pleaded guilty today to threatening unlawful violence outside a hotel housing asylum seekers in aldershot in hampshire . in aldershot in hampshire. in ukraine, president volodymyr zelenskyy has told the russian leader that war is coming home in his most direct challenge so far to vladimir putin since the conflict began. it comes a week after a surprise counter—attack on the kursk region in russia . on the kursk region in russia. ukraine's military says it now controls 1000km2 of the border province . meanwhile, all of province. meanwhile, all of ukraine is currently under an air raid alert amid recent russian drone attacks and two ballistic missile strikes this morning . here, an investigation morning. here, an investigation has started into a crowd surge at boardmasters music festival in cornwall that left seven people injured among them was a woman who fractured her knee, while another person says she had ten people fall on top of

her. it happened at one of the main stages on friday, which reopened following the event . reopened following the event. more than £10 million was spent in shops on beer alone on the day of the england euro final with spain. there was also a surge in spending on drinks and snacks, as well as for the olympics, nut purchases increased 60% on the friday of the olympic opening ceremony compared to the previous week . compared to the previous week. and that was just the staff here @gbnews those are the latest headlines. for now i'm sam francis. more in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . forward slash alerts. >> thank you sir. now that absolutely hundreds of your size coming so far on nigel farage

valdo calocane on the stabbings at leicester square and also tom tugendhat having a pop at nigel farage, get yours in. there's still time to do that before the end of the show. and you do that by going to gbnews.com/yoursay. i read out the best before end of the show. i'm martin daubney on

welcome back. your time is 538. i'm martin daubney on gb news now. our seagulls causing trouble near you. we'll bnng causing trouble near you. we'll bring you a report on the pesky birds from scarborough later in the show. but before that a pro foxhunting group says it's preparing a legal case, arguing that they should be protected under equality laws in the same way as the roma community and the lgbtq+ community. well, this would not lift the uk hunting ban. it means employers would not be able to discriminate

against employees with pro hunting views. so should foxhunters become a protected group or species, or be completely lost? the plot. well, to discuss this , i'm now joined to discuss this, i'm now joined by simon blunt, a spokesperson for hunt saboteurs association. simon, i'm just blown away that this is even a story. i thought fox hunting had been made illegal way back. was it in 2004? does fox hunting still go on? >> yeah. it does. fox hunting very much goes on. >> i mean, i don't quite sure what this, this sort of latest act of laughable desperation is to try and get themselves categorised as a separate ethnic group is, although they have tried by hook and crook to despite the ban in 2004 to, carry on fox hunting under a smokescreen of trail hunting and so on. >> yeah . >> yeah. >> yeah. >> so, simon, hunt saboteurs. i've known a few of you lads in the past, i know that you get a

bit spicy and some of the stuff you do. what kind of things do the fox hunters that still go out there think they need protecting from? >> well, you'd have to ask them that, really, wouldn't you? >> i'm not quite asking you that here. >> well, i you know what what what kind of things might they say happen to them if they're on a legal hunt? >> well, we all we seek to do when we're out in the field is preserve the life of a hunted animal. simple as that. >> now, if they feel the need to be protected from that, not only are they in breach of morality, and what they're trying to do is completely abhorrent, they're actually in breach of the law. >> but if they're not chasing foxes now, what do they do? they chase what centred pelts through fields. do you still object to that? >> well, this is what's interesting, is that this, mr swales, who's who's brought this kind of laughable case. i think we have to sort of congratulate him on his honesty because he's, he's quoted as saying, of course, they are still fox hunting . he attempts to present hunting. he attempts to present it as something benign, but he's

admitting that the majority of fox hunts are still out there because, of course , they are the because, of course, they are the most protected minority in the whole of in the whole of the country. they've been able to get away with flouting the law for 20 years. he's been quite upfront about the fact that they're still hunting. so that's what we're there to stop . what we're there to stop. >> is there any likelihood of this case reaching fruition in court, or is it just the kind of plea for headlines? i mean, the nofion plea for headlines? i mean, the notion that somebody who goes hunting could be protected like a transgender person seems ludicrous . ludicrous. >> i mean, i think he's trying to claim they're an ethnic minority. and of course, the only ethnic minority they are is what our norman overlords. i mean, they simply aren't. it is laughable. i'm not sure if this this man, mr swales, is just trying to raise money in some kind of grift from the blood sports fraternity, or whether he sincerely believes it. that's not for me to say. all i know is he's claiming he's had legal advice. this is going to work. and all i'd say to that is lawyers will say anything to people with deep pockets. >> simon, do you accept the

nofion >> simon, do you accept the notion that, countryside communities, they keep the beagles, they keep the dogs. it provides a lot of jobs to those in the horse stables. it's a part of their heritage, a part of their lifestyle. so long as they're not killing foxes, why can't you just leave them to do it? >> i mean, if they weren't killing foxes, that that might be a conversation to be had. but of course, we've seen it over and over again. they flout that. and because the law isn't enforced against them , because enforced against them, because they're a protected minority, we have to be there . okay. have to be there. okay. >> okay. so you don't think that so you agree then that that countryside communities should be allowed to freely use horses, to use dogs to chase around the countryside so long as they don't chase foxes. do you agree that that's allowed that wouldn't immediately concern us? >> no. i mean, as long as you know the land is open access to everyone, and they they can do what they want as long as they're not hurting animals. >> okay, well, let's leave it there. thanks for joining >> okay, well, let's leave it there. thanks forjoining us on there. thanks for joining us on there. thanks for joining us on

the show. simon blunt, a spokesperson for hunt saboteurs association. thanks for your time today. well, let me know what you think about that story, it's one that divides townies and those living in the countryside. a lot of people who live in the countryside, it's completely their right to keep dogs to go on horseback. course, people like simon wouldn't agree. and i tried to get him to admit some of the spicy tactics. we all know the hunt saboteurs do get a bit fruity out there at times. now for the break. we'll bnng times. now for the break. we'll bring you more on the rise in so—called seagull muggings that are taking place across the united kingdom. all the big stories here on gb news with me, martin daubney

welcome back. it's 547 on the final furlong , gb news can final furlong, gb news can exclusively reveal that nearly 5000 small boat migrants have

crossed the english channel since the labour party came to power. our homeland security edhon power. our homeland security editor, mike white, brings us this report at a compound on the outskirts of dover. >> a sobering illustration of the scale of the task facing the new labour government in their efforts to end the channel migrant crisis row. after row of small boats, hundreds of them , small boats, hundreds of them, many now deflated and rolled up as we filmed, contractors dropped off more dinghies. the latest have made the illegal crossing into uk waters . this latest have made the illegal crossing into uk waters. this is for rishi sunak. crossing into uk waters. this is for rishi sunak . so keir for rishi sunak. so keir starmer's focus is on going after the people smugglers who've now sent thousands more migrants across the channel. since labour came to power. but the former head of border force says tackling international criminal gangs will be extremely difficult without full cooperation from many other governments . governments. >> he's a very, very big ask, i

think, to expect the uk to be able to smash the gangs, if you like, without some form of international collaboration, where powers can be used by other countries on their jurisdictions to bring people to justice and to prevent people and goods crossing borders , etc, and goods crossing borders, etc, rather than the uk being able to do this on their own. >> tony smith says there is no indication so far that the appetite of the smugglers and their customers has been in any way diminished since labour came to power. >> this is a hugely lucrative business. there is an unending supply of migrants pervading the eu border, many of whom are in various member states very keen to get across to the uk who are prepared to mortgage their lives effectively to get a place on a very dangerous vessel to get themselves into uk territorial waters . that narrative still waters. that narrative still exists, i think across europe and beyond. so the pull factor

is very much there for now at least. >> the migrant boats will continue to stack up here as even the government acknowledges it will take some time for its new approach to impact the organised criminal gangs, making millions from their trade in human misery . millions from their trade in human misery. mark millions from their trade in human misery . mark white millions from their trade in human misery. mark white gb millions from their trade in human misery . mark white gb news human misery. mark white gb news >> it's an astonishing package there from mark wyatt and that compound. i've been to that . compound. i've been to that. it's just a couple of miles outside of dover. you have to walk up a hill to get to it. it's the size of a few football pitches. it's packed with dinghies that sees into britain. it's an elephant's graveyard, symptomatic of our failure to control our borders. now moving on our seagulls, the menace of summer in our seaside towns. well, our reporter anna riley has been to scarborough and sent us this hair raising report. >> seagulls are a staple of the seaside . and their squawking is

seaside. and their squawking is the soundtrack of the british coast . summertime is their coast. summertime is their nesting season, which comes with an increase in noise, excrement and muggings from the birds in scarborough . north yorkshire scarborough. north yorkshire council's gull champion says the authority is tackling these issues . issues. >> we are seeking to fight back against the seagull menace that is gripping our coastal communities. the issues that we've seen down on the seafront, we're now seeing more and more in the town centre. we have a programme of street cleansing works, try and keep our streets as clean as we possibly can. we have a gull proofing scheme so businesses, local people can 6my businesses, local people can apply for grants up to £2,000 to try and keep gulls away from their properties. we're also strongly advising the public not to feed the birds , not to drop to feed the birds, not to drop litter. clearly fish and chips are not parts of the seagulls natural diet. the spate of seagull muggings and the filth they create has caused a drop in business for cafe italia.

>> it's a mess. it's a health hazard and it's like the forgotten square . holidaymakers forgotten square. holidaymakers are complaining it's quieter for business. nobody will sit outside and they really need to do something about the seagulls in scarborough town centre , in scarborough town centre, people shared their experiences with the seagulls. i cannot stand them. they're noisy, they're messy, they nick your ice cream, they nick your chips, don't like them at all. >> the seagulls stole from a sausage roll out of my little sister's hand and bit her. yeah, right here she was holding a sausage roll and then it just swooped down and bit her and tookit swooped down and bit her and took it away . yeah, and it took it away. yeah, and it nipped me right here. >> they're okay in their place, but when they're in the wrong place, there really are problems . place, there really are problems. >> they've got a really good character. and they're funny and they're pretty. if you paint

them, you can see all the different colours on them. yeah, i love them. >> well, i had a nice new ice cream and i'm holding it and it just came. it was about this close to my face came right down, took the entire thing and swooped off. i guess i was lucky it didn't hit me. >> you can see the droppings everywhere. it's near some shops, you know, it's, it's a bit, you've just got to swerve around it in case one comes along. >> like them or loathe them, seagulls are protected as their colonies are rapidly declining. the advice is to not feed them and to guard your goodies from the opportunistic birds. anna riley gb news. >> no, i'm afraid not that the flying feathered luftwaffe, they have no place at the seaside now then. got a couple of your quick yourselves before the programme ends. patricia says. who does sir keir starmer think he's kidding. there is no plan. he knows it and we know it. captain kidd. captain hindsight, no way. and on the topic of tom

tugendhat becoming the next tory leader, jeff says this i can guarantee the next leader of the conservatives will be a one nafion conservatives will be a one nation candidate. the party will never learn and i will never vote for them again. if that happens. so many of you have been saying that they were fed up of the conservatives having a p0p up of the conservatives having a pop at nigel farage, including here. it speaks volumes. judy says that politicians are piling in on farage. they are scared to death because they know that nigel farage and the reform party will trounce them at the next general election. well, that's it from the show today. now don't forget to join us from 6 am. tomorrow. it's breakfast with eamonn and isabel, followed by britain's newsroom at 930 with andrew and bev and then tom and emily with good afternoon britain from midday. of course, i'll be back tomorrow at three. in fact, i'll be back tonight at seven. i'm covering for nigel farage. i've been martin daubney. this is gb news. now it's daubney. this is gb news. now wsfime daubney. this is gb news. now it's time for your weather with annie shuttleworth. dewbs& co next and i'm back at seven. see you then .

you then. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb. >> news . >> news. >> news. >> hello. good afternoon . >> hello. good afternoon. welcome to your latest gb news weather update brought to you from the met office. cloudy and breezy through the rest of today across western areas, but warm and sunny in east. there will be some rain for some areas as well, particularly where we do see this weather front moving in across the west parts of scotland. western areas of wales, southwestern england as well. most likely to see the rain through this evening and the rest of this afternoon could be some heavier bursts in there and it is going to be quite breezy across the west, but particularly across northwestern scotland, where we're closer to that area of low pressure. overnight tonight, that rain will sink into more central areas of england, and it will turn much clearer from the north and west. and as the winds do ease , temperatures could fall as ease, temperatures could fall as low as 4 or 5 degrees rurally in parts of northern ireland and scotland, but up here it will be a fine start to the day and

wednesday is looking fairly fine generally, particularly for northern and western areas, so plenty of sunshine in particular across eastern areas of scotland, across the west. we do have a weather front not too far away, and that could just bring the risk of some showers to the western isles, as well as the far west of northern ireland, but by and large a pretty nice start to the day and temperatures around 14 or 15 degrees. sunshine likely for parts of wales as well if that rain has cleared away nicely overnight. but a fairly grey start to come for central and southern areas of england, as well as some eastern areas too, well as some eastern areas too, we could see some outbreaks of drizzly rain , most likely across drizzly rain, most likely across the morning, will likely turn a bit drier into the afternoon for these areas, but there's still a risk of some rain. so much cloudier and a cooler day across eastern areas. temperatures just 2324 degrees across the west, temperatures around average, but with lighter winds it will still feel fairly pleasant in the sunshine to end wednesday the next weather front will arrive from the north and west further south and east, though that rain and cloud will eventually clear ,

and cloud will eventually clear, so a dry and clear night for many areas. but the wet weather will continue to spread in from the north and west through thursday, bringing some fairly persistent rain that will sink into the southeast for friday. but it's looking fine on the weekend. that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb

state mental health. so i'm asking you, do you think this care in the community strategy is working or is it time to re—evaluate and ask questions about whether or not we need to move back to the days of institutionalisation? your thoughts on that also? i've got

a confession to make. i'm not really bothered who is the next leader of the tory party. it turns out, though, i'm not alone because a poll out today says that 62% of brits feel the same way as me. are you one of them? if so, tell me why. and if indeed you do care, tell me who do you think then it should be? and a simple question for you. do you think brits should be prioritised for social . do you think brits should be prioritised for social. housing? all of that and more. but first, the 6:00 news headlines . the 6:00 news headlines. >> michelle, thank you very much indeed. and good evening to you. just after 6:00, the top story tonight, the prime minister is said to be considering a judge led public inquiry into the nottingham stabbings last june. it comes after the health secretary today acknowledged the nhs made multiple and fundamental failures in the care given to valdo calocane, who killed grace o'malley—kumar ,

killed grace o'malley—kumar, barnaby webber and ian coates last year. the trust involved, though, insists it has improved. but wes streeting says