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Thousands of runners in the Jane Tomlinson 10km road race in Hull have to run a shortened course due to problems with a bridge.

WHEN Jan Sills went to the Church Street surgery in Ware for an appointment with her doctor, a notice in reception caught her eye.

THREE 20 year olds who survived a 'horrific' car crash on the A419 yesterday have seen no change in their condition overnight.

Warminster Town Coun-cil appointed Paul Batchelor as mayor and Andrew Davis as deputy for the next year, with a unanimous vote at the annual meeting on Monday.

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Police are concerned for the welfare of a Melton man who has been missing for several days. Jason Fox, 41, was last seen on Thursday and was reported missing to police on Friday after he failed to return home. PC Tanya Lehane, from the Leicestershire police's missing from home team, said: "Both the police and Jason's family are concerned for his welfare as he doesn't have his medication with him. "We would urge Jason or anyone who knows his current whereabouts to contact us immediately. We would also urge anyone who recognises his photograph and believes they may have seen him since Thursday to contact us." Jason is white, 5ft 9in, of slim build, with dark brown (almost black) waist length hair which is usually tied up into a ponytail. He was last seen wearing a hooded top which had a zip on the front, white writing and white cuffs, dark brown polo shirt, pale blue jeans and black Lonsdale trainers Anyone with any information is asked to contact Leicestershire Police on 101, quoting incident number 260:170513 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

A surgeon from Edgware is among a team of doctors who are running so children can walk.

David Halik is looking forward to being part of the Trowbridge regeneration as the town’s new mayor.

TWO intrepid young adventurers have climbed to the top of Mount Snowdon to raise money for a brain injury charity.

A BREAKFAST meeting is being held by the Warrington Youth Club about how the National Citizen Service can help charities in the town.

Two large wooden sculptures are installed as part of a £50,000 transformation of a public garden in Gloucester.

Police and firefighters are investigating the cause of a blaze that badly damaged a house in Loughborough. Firefighters were called to the two-storey home in Brisco Avenue at about 3am today after receiving reports of smoke seen coming from the house. They described the building as "fully involved in fire." Fire crews used four breathing apparatus, two hose reels, a covering jet and a pressurised fan to help them put out the blaze. They had managed to extinguish the fire by about 4am. Nobody was injured in the incident. This morning police scenes of crime officers, Leicestershire fire investigators and the fire investigation dog, from Derbyshire Fire Service, were at the house to try to determine what had caused the blaze.

An FA Legends side beat a British Army team 4-2 at Reading's Madejski Stadium in a game to raise money for two military charities.

A bank in Edgware was robbed by three men on Friday morning.

Police are investigating an arson attack at the Kings College cricket pavilion in Taunton. At around 9:30pm last night, two Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service crews from Taunton responded to reports of a fire inside the Kings College grounds. Firefighters found the rear of the pavilion on fire, and the interior heavily smoke logged. Crews used one hose reel jet, a short extension ladder and a thermal imaging camera to extinguish the blaze and check for hot spots. The fire is thought to...

This is Cornwall can now reveal the full transcript of an interview given by Cornwall Councillor Collin Brewer, which has prompted calls for his resignation and investigations by the police and council. The Wadebridge East councillor came under fire again this week for his latest comments about disabled children, where he allegedly compared them with deformed lambs in a telephone interview with Disability News Service (DNS)journalist John Pring. Mr Brewer, who is currently on sick leave from his council duties because of a long-term health condition, told the BBC earlier this week that his comments had been taken out of context. This transcript has been reproduced with the permission of DNS. JP: "Talking about the incident in October 2011." CB: What I couldn't get out because the lady (from Disability Cornwall) turned her back, it was very expensive. My concern was that children are being sent from Cornwall all over the country far away from their parents and carers, and is that what we wish for our children? My concern is that such facilities ought to be local. It fills in with the ideas of Whole Life. I thought that it would be cheaper to provide those facilities closer to home in Cornwall, or that could deal with Devon as well. "Is their life of such low esteem that that might be it? "I have never killed a fish in my life. I believe all life is precious, whatever animal it is. "I had just been to a council meeting which was discussing finance. When you are talking about having to close toilets, facilities for everyone and perhaps the coastal footpath for everyone, then I have got to question individual budgets to individual people. "People are not on this earth for very long. My main concern is planning and environmental and landscape. In that context, people are just transient. "I have heard of terrific amounts of money being spent on specific individuals." JP: "Disabled individuals?" CB: "I'm not sure." JP: "Some people have very high personal budgets?" CB: "Yes." JP: "What's the solution to that?" CB: "The only way I can see it is more of a homes within the locality. When you look at people with mental health problems, for too long you have had all these massive institutions. Now at last people are beginning to see people with these disabilities in their locality... I really am not the ogre people are making me out to be. "You are trying to make more of it than it was. I came out of a meeting talking about budgets very agitated. He had spoken to someone on another stand first. The he moved on to the Disability Cornwall stand. "I think there were three people there. I was agitated and made that stupid remark for which I will always be sorry. "The fact is that I think to keep 10 toilets open would cost about £250,000. That's a service to the whole of the community. This is my concern. It is a balance which has to be made." JP: "As opposed to what?" CB: "As opposed to a service to one person. I know for instance of a lady with two dogs and she has three carers and she gets around, she has a frame. These carers are principally to walk the dogs. Little things like that that people are aware of. It makes me frustrated because I tend to think that it is money that could be better spent on someone else." JP: "The council could provide funding of £250,000 for one person?" CB "That comes into it. It is obviously part of the equation. You have to say when you are talking about something for economic development what is the payback. It is a major concern. You have limited budget and it is being cut all the time." JP: "So when there are limited budgets you find it difficult sometimes to look at some of the big personal budgets being given to disabled people for social care and that is just for one person? Is that where the source of the concern is?" CB: "I don't sit on any health committees but it is a concern. It is not only a concern of mine." JP: "So it is a widespread feeling in the council that the higher and rising costs of social care mean that there is less money for projects that could benefit the wider community?" CB: "It is bound to be a concern. Because we are having to get rid of libraries, sports centres, and not maintain even our roads." JP: "Should there be more abortions of disabled children?" CB: "I don't agree with abortions. I am a Christian. All life is precious. It's a dilemma that I have. It cannot be just me. I suppose it is an ethics question. If you were talking about getting rid of a person or a life it is not something I could condone. "You will never believe it. Two weeks ago I walked up through a street and a retired doctor said I was perfectly right." JP: "That some disabled children should be put down?" CB: "Presumably it would depend on the degree of the disablement." JP: "What did you say to him?" CB: "I knew him. I was an acquaintance in the past. He is a medical man. He knows his business presumably." JP: "There must be something to what he was saying?" CB: "If that is what he said, there must be." JP: "But he was obviously advocating some kind of euthanasia?" CB: "All he said was I was right in my comment." JP: "How do you balance those two things?" CB: "You just can't." JP: "He quoted some extract from The Way of Life, which he said he had never told anyone before but that he read every morning. It's about doing good/no harm." CB: "I try to abide by that." "The other problem is over-population. I see so many problems in the world regarding energy consumption, housing. We live in a finite environment. I am afraid that in a few generations we are going to be hit with terrible consequences of our breeding." JP: "So what is the solution?" CB: "I think the Chinese had a way of doing it. One child family." JP: "But then if you have a disabled child?" CB: "I really don't know. No government is prepared to grasp it." JP: "So the solution might be easing those out of life who might be less productive?" CB: "You mentioned abortion. Doesn't this happen now anyway?" JP: "Do you think something might be done along the lines of the doctor?" CB "If nothing is done we are going to have terrible wars or famine." JP: "To ease out those unproductive members of society?" CB: "We have a tax system that encourages people to breed like rabbits. If we had a tax system that encouraged one child or maybe two." JP: "Euthanasia might be a solution?" CB: "No." JP: "Other people who agreed with you?" CB: "My ward is partial urban but terrific rural area with a lot of farmers. A farmer didn't see a lot wrong with what I said because it is something they do every day. If they have a misshapen lamb they get rid of it, they get rid of it. Bang! If you go to a farmer's funeral there is not a lot of weeping because they are used to life and death. It is something they deal with on a daily basis." JP: "How did it make you feel? That you were right?" CB: "He's certainly got a point. We are just animals. He's obviously got a point." JP: "You have some sympathy with him and the doctor?" CB: "Of course I have. You can't have lambs running around with five legs and two heads. "People have also said that whilst they have a great sympathy with these [families], there is always the problem when the parents or carers leave this world. What does happen? It is a worry." JP: "They become a burden?" CB: "Yes. Who shoulders the burden after they have looked after them for so many years. But I think society is getting a lot more tolerant in that respect." JP: "Has anybody else said they agreed with you?" CB: "Strangely enough I have been up to other towns and people have come up and shook my hand. Complete strangers." JP: "How did that make you feel?" CB: "It made me feel that I am not the ogre that I have been painted. I think a lot of them is sympathy for me." JP: "Sympathy?" CB: "I think humans are animals." JP: "If other people are killing animals it is OK?" CB: "Do you eat meat? [That is] killing of an animal." JP: "So the difference between putting down an animal who is severely disabled and putting down a child who is severely disabled is not that great then?" CB: "Yes, you seem to forget that we kill, we rule the roost." JP: "There isn't that much difference between putting down a lamb or a child with two heads?" CB: "I think the cost has got to be evaluated. It is not something I would like to do but there is only so much in the bucket. If you are talking about giving services to the community or services to the individual, the balance has got to be struck." JP: "You might think then that if there was a child with two heads, that might be where the line is drawn. It might be kinder to put that child down?" CB: "Is that one child or two? I would hope that although I don't like the idea of it, long before it is born that this problem is [stopped] and it will probably be aborted in some way." JP: "And if it wasn't?" CB: "Then if it wasn't, then well, what happens?" JP: "The lamb would be put down." CB: "It would be put down, smashed against the wall and be dealt with." JP: "It might be as [...] for a similar thing to be done for the child?" CB: "That would be up to the decision of whoever is there at the birth. It makes me wonder that some children have been aborted, some abortions are so late that the child is there." JP: "Those are decisions about putting down a child with that degree of impairment might well mean more money for the wider community?" CB: "It might. It probably will." JP: "It does make an argument and a good argument for maybe ending the lives of some severely disabled children with severe learning difficulties?" CB: "I am not making that judgment. There may be a case. I haven't a clue how much they cost. When people complain to me about the state of our finances, I say, well, we can't afford to do it. We might be forced to close our beaches. That's a service to us all. It is a dilemma and it is going to get increasingly a problem with budget cuts." JP: "Between services for disabled people and...?" CB: "Between all services." JP: "It does make an argument for putting down some severely disabled children?" CB: "Yes. That is why I keep as far away from health in the council as I can. "I was a conservation man for Cornwall. Very much concerned with landscape and planning." JP: "Does it frustrate you that with all the money spent on people's lives, so little is spent on the environment?" CB: "We work according to the budget." JP: "Said he is currently off sick from the council. Had a series of strokes some time ago." CB: "You're liable to flare up." JP: "Personality-wise?" CB: "Yes. People have said I have changed since those strokes."

A MAN is in hospital after a car crash in Basford yesterday evening. Firefighters from Stockhill, Arnold and High Fields attended the accident in Valley Road around 6.20pm. The man's car had hit a barrier. He was taken to hospital by ambulance.

A short review of the political week in the West

A CARAVAN which was near to propane cylinders was on fire in Hucknall in the night. Firefighters were called to an allotment on Lime Treen Road in Hucknall at around 3.50am. The fire was inside a caravan on the allotment. Two 5kg propane cylinders were safely removed from the area. The caravan was severly damaged by the fire. Notts fire and rescue service is investigating the cause of the blaze.

TWO people were taken to hospital last night after the car they were in hit a wall in Nuthall. Two fire engines were called to the scene on Nottingham Road, near the Three Ponds pub, at around 10.15pm last night. The firefighters cut two people from the car and they were taken to the QMC by ambulance.