TV Does A&E

My local hospital, and the one where Gail works has been the subject of a television programme for Sky News.

For the last 24 hours, a couple of reporters have been doing live broadcasts from the QMC Hospital's Accident & Emergency department. Following the patients as they arrive after receiving all sorts of different injuries. Besides all the usual cuts and bruises, one woman was kicked in the face by a horse. I've always thought horses were evil creatures and then a man appeared from a wedding party who had cut his hand somehow while cutting the wedding cake. Could he not tell the difference?

We had to go into Nottingham today, so on our travels back, we stopped off at the hospital to see if we could see any of the filming going on. Alas not, but I did capture the mobile studio, which was parked near the entrance.

Construction work is continuing on the new tram line which includes a bridge through the hospital. Unfortunately it means the destruction of another bridge which links the main hospital block with the newer Treatment Centre.

I've never really studied this bridge before, as it's something that you think is going to be there forever, so as it's probably only got a few days of life left, I thought that I would do some close up shots. I think the outside has quite a sci fi look to it; like it is one of those airlock tubes that connect spaceships with space stations

Broadcast News

A big trial was coming to a end at the crown court today. The sentencing of three people who purposely or accidentally killed six children in a house fire in Derby last year. What makes it worse, is that two of the accused are the parents of the said children.

It's quite a complicated case, but basically it seems that the father set fire to his house, so he could implicate his ex girlfriend, as she had left the family home some months earlier. As you would expect, the worlds press was there waiting to know if a prison sentence was in the offering.

For some reason, the judge had decided to defer her decision until tomorrow.  So all the reporters, film crews and journalists stood around wondering what to do with the rest of their day.