i asked louise barnett today, she is the chief _ to them? he is the chief executive and has been for the past two years, whether she would resign, and she said she wasn't going to. it's important to stress that the problem is that this trust were not caused by one long—standing chief executive or one poor leadership team. there have been ten chief executives here over the past 20 years. the families would argue many of them have been of poor quality but the review says that churn perhaps meant nobody was actually able to get to grips with the appalling culture and poor practices that are evident here, and there will undoubtedly be questions over what happens at this trust going forward given the strong concerns about ongoing maternity care. but despite the appalling failure is here, it would be wrong to suggest this is the only maternity service with problems. some of the issues here, such as poor training, and some of the issues here, such as poortraining, and a some of the issues here, such as poor training, and a bullying and toxic culture

louise barnett, the chief executive of the trust.�*s 11—year—old son, adam, was included in the report which sparked the review. she told my colleague annita mcveigh about how she and adam were failed by the maternity services. my pregnancy was normal and should have been safe. i ultimately went into labour at full term, 39 weeks five, so you could say there was a reasonable expectation that things should have been ok. the midwives checked me three times from the point that my waters broke before labour started. they kept sending me home and saying everything was fine, even though i wasn't experiencing any contractions and i wasn't feeling any movement on adam's part. by the time he was finally born, i haemorrhaged, so i nearly lost my own life. the next morning, i had a full pelvic split, so there was some worry over whether or not i would ever walk again or would need surgery. but perhaps most importantly of all, adam ended up in neonatal intensive care, fighting for his life against group b strep meningitis. he was in an induced c

chief executive, louise barnett, said: "we offer our wholehearted apologies for the pain and distressost of living is biting when it comes to the nation's — of living is biting when it comes to the nation's favourite dish. people say cheap as chips. chips ain't cheap any more. they are not. regular cod and chips, mushy peas and a ketchup, please. it's notjust chips that are getting more expensive, at tom's family shop, everything is costing them more. peas, potatoes, fish, pretty much everything has gone up. our peas have gone up over 100% a bag. it's gone from around £8 to £18, and that's not including vat, so with your vat on top of that... we've never had anything go up so much in such a short space of time. sunflower oil to fry the fish, fertiliser to help grow the potatoes and even wheat in the batter. ukraine and russia are big exporters of lots of the ingredients in the nation's favourite dish. fish and chips on the beach. it's a british institution, but most of the cod and haddock sold our chippies isn't actually caught in these waters. more than a third of it is imported from