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the master has done it again... winning seven world championships. john surtees is the hero with the double in the first classic meeting of the year. on his way to win his sixth tt and his third successive senior tt... he became the first man to win the senior isle of man tt three years running. is this your life's ambition now achieved? not really, i suppose i don't set out with definite ambitions, ijust try and do my best, whatever i do. he switched to cars full—time in 1961, driving a cooper. but once again he had to go to italy to find success, this time with ferrari. the man first isjohn surtees. and a second place in mexico clinched the 1964 world championship. a year later he almost died when his lola crashed in practice in canada. flown back to london, he eventually made a full recovery. i'm not attaching too much importance to this, although i think it is important
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in time i do sort of manage to fit in the full movements. his last grand prix victory was at monza in 1967. single—minded and deeply committed, his talent won him a unique place in motor racing history. i think by the time i was retiring i still probably hadn't reached my absolute peak, but i had achieved my main ambitions. because the most important thing i have to do in life, is not satisfy other people, but satisfy myself. the career ofjohn surtees, who has died at the age of 83. the headlines on bbc news: a drug addict is jailed for 12 years after running over and killing a young boy and his aunt — makayah mcdermott was just ten years old. justine greening insists selective education can close the "attainment gap" but heads express frustration
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at the government's priorities. a judge orders the former katie hopkins to pay £24,000 to bloggerjack monroe after committing libel on twitter. an update on the market. this is how london and frankfurt ended. the dow and the nasdaq. bt shares amid speculation another company is considering a bid for bp. it kills more people than bowel, breast and prostate cancer combined, but many may never have heard of it. it's called sepsis and today the health watchdog says it must be treated within an hour in the fight against life or death. sepsis occurs when the body's immune system goes into overdrive as it tries to fight an infection, it must be treated quickly with antibiotics. in the uk, there are 114,000 deaths from the condition each year. severe symptoms can develop soon afterwards and can include
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a fall in blood pressure, nausea, slurred speech and vomiting. for more on this lets talk to tom rey who contracted sepsis which left him facially disfigured and a quad amputee. he joins us via webcam from rutland. we're also joined from by dr ron daniels he's a consultant in critical care at heart of england nhs foundation trust and ceo of the uk sepsis trust. he's in our birmingham newsroom. welcome to both of you. tom, tell us about your experience, because you almost died from sepsis? yes, i was almost died from sepsis? yes, i was a 38—year—old husband and father. never had a day's sickness in my
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life. very strong, hail and hearty, but sepsis caught me very quickly. within about 2k, 36 hours, i went from a normal kind of routine life, to the intensive care unit. went into a coma for four months and woke up into a coma for four months and woke up with my arms and legs amputated and most of my face from my eyes downwards also removed. so it was very, very powerful. why didn't the doctors recognise what it was more readily? it is a question we have often asked and we have done a bit often asked and we have done a bit of research into it. i think the problem, well several problems, one was, we live in a rural location, we found it hard to get urgent
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assistance. a&e in a major city in peter borough, we arrived on a friday night and it was very, very crowded and the symptoms, because i had no medical history of any problems, i was a mystery case. i was kind of put into a sideboard and they sort of left me the last to work out what was wrong with me. one of the other problems was, blood tests, in those days, december 1999, took several hours to come back with the results. by that time, once they have the results, the news was there was no hope for me and they told my wife that i would just die. tom, we will come back and talk to you in a second on how you are raising awareness because of the film you are involved in. dr ron daniels, how
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much cricket is the diagnosis of sepsis nowadays? but several years after tom's experience, nothing changed much. but the nhs has started to take this seriously, the royal colleges have started to take this seriously. i would hope the vast majority of people now get recognised quicker than tom did. how quickly do you need to be treated and with what? you need to be treated as quickly as possible. tom's story of a deterioration over 24 hours is typical. every hour we wait in giving the right antibiotic to the patient, the risk of dying goes up by 7%, so it is urgent. tom went through this radical surgery, how common with that be these days? sepsis is common, it is more common than heart attacks and strokes in the uk. but thankfully, tom's extreme case with his amputations
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and facial surgery is very rare. it doesn't mean the people who do have these things are not trouble. people have post—traumatic stress disorder, people have problem thinking clearly, chronic fatigue syndrome. so getting it delayed, means there will be more impairment afterwards if they survive. the film you are involved in is called starfish, what does it document? it is the story of how my wife and i got together and we settled in a very rural location in rutland. how sepsis caught me very quickly, going into the hospital and then coming out of a coma after all that time and reacquainting myself with life, getting onto prosthetic legs, learning to use my prosthetic hands.
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i have got these robot hands that help me through every day. i am getting back into work as well, which was a key thing for me, to get back into work so i could support the family. 0therwise back into work so i could support the family. otherwise we were going broke very fast. it will raise awareness of the condition. although there is an actor who plays you in there is an actor who plays you in the film, you are his body double. how important is a film like this, we have to remember that a&e departments are very pressed at the moment? you mentioned four of the six symptoms and it is only when symptoms appear should people think about going to hospital. this film, which is an astonishing film describes how the journey can affect anybody. it is an important message. it is notjust the elderly, notjust the young, it can affect anyone. it highlights many of the symptoms we described on our website that people
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need to look for. dr ron daniels and tom rey in beautiful rutland, thank you very much for talking to us this evening. plans to introduce speed bumps in london's hyde park, to slow down bikes, have angered some cyclists, who say it's unfair and unnecessary. royal parks insist it will make it safer for everyone after recording one cyclist speed through at more than 30 miles per hour. helen mulroy has more details. cycle safety in london conjures up images of congested roads and roads clad in lycra and high visibility jackets. but hyde park is where the royal parks department is making safety improvements. as many as 1200 cyclists and our use the boardwalk between speaker's corner cyclists and our use the boardwalk between spea ker‘s corner and cyclists and our use the boardwalk between speaker's corner and hyde park corner at peak times. so to regulate the speed, work will begin next week to install speed humps along the path. hyde park has to cater for
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along the path. hyde park has to caterfor a range along the path. hyde park has to cater for a range of different users from pedestrians of all ages to leisure cyclists as well as commuters and royal parks said the introduction of these measures will make the park more accessible to all. we have recorded cyclists travelling at 32 miles an hour. 0n the road people expect to get there as fast as they can, complete with the traffic. this is a part, come and enjoy it. but the plans have sparked a backlash from the cycling community. cyclists will swerve round the bombs when they are in place. if you are not a good rider, it makes you more dangerous. place. if you are not a good rider, it makes you more dangerousfl place. if you are not a good rider, it makes you more dangerous. it can be daunting if people are going too fast, but if it makes people safer and more comfortable and confident, iam in and more comfortable and confident, i am in favour of it. in a city where record amounts of funding is being ploughed into cycling, it is hoped they will only slow speeds and not enthusiasm. you know the old adage you should
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korea's policy towards north korea is limited in the last six months of the year. professor robert kelly and family. all of them. nothing lifts your spirits than a baby on casper is. now the weather. after a mild and cloudy day, high pressure is in charge. england and wales staying largely dry, pretty cloudy and a bit of low cloud and hillfort, missed and murk. temperatures between eight and 10 degrees. mild start to the weekend. we will have a zone of cloud and patchy rain across parts of scotland and northern england and for a time into north wales. the cloud should break nicely and temperatures 17, possibly 18 degrees. a return to sunshine across the north west. heading through saturday evening and into sunday, the rain will pep up
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across many parts of the country, pushing eastwards through sunday and lingering longest across east anglia and the south east. sunday is a return to sunshine and scattered showers. but it will be fresher on sunday with temperatures of ten to 13 degrees. this is bbc news. iam martine i am martine croxall. the headlines at 8.00pm. a drug addict is jailed for 12 years after running over and killing a 10—year—old boy and his aunt. but the family express disappointment with the sentence. the education secretary is heckled over her plan for new grammar schools. teachers say they're having to drop courses due to a lack of funding. a judge orders the columnist katie hopkins to pay 24 thousand pounds in damages — after she libelled a blogger on twitter.
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