The government has announced that from april, thousands of nhs patients, visitors and staff will benefit from free parking at hospitals in england. Most visitors to hospitals in scotland, wales and Northern Ireland are already exempt from charges, as our correspondent James Waterhouse reports. For nhs patients and those who visit them, its an age old complaint. Paying to park at hospitals. During the election, the conservatives promised to do something about it in their manifesto for specific groups. So, from april, all 206 hospital trusts in england will be expected to give free parking to those being described as in the greatest need. This includes blue badge holders, frequent visitors to outpatient clinics, parents of Sick Children staying overnight and staff working night shifts. And lets not forget, hospitals make a lot of cash from parking. According to freedom of information requests, trust in england last year made more than £254 million from charges, a further 1. 5 million fr
Missions to space. Welcome to the program we start with breaking news coming out of somalia where a huge bomb blast has killed and injured dozens of people an ambulance official says as many as 61 have been killed but many more casualties are feared the car bomb blast in the capital mogadishu was there a security checkpoint during morning rush hour some reports say as many as 19 may have died including some turkish engineers. Joins me now from nairobi our correspondent in neighboring kenya obviously details are sketchy but the official figures seem to be anything from between 30 to 90 in terms of both injured and dead. Exactly the figures seem to between 30 and 90 depends on who you speak to but people do expect that number to rise because it was a huge explosion some of the people whod been killed include Somali Police officers and civilians this happened jiri in the morning it was a rush hour it was at a security checkpoint a lot of people were moving around going to market so we can
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Welcome to the program a huge blast has killed and injured dozens of people in somalia billons official says 76 have been killed and many more casualties are feared the car bomb blast in the capital mogadishu was now a security checkpoint during morning rush hour and some reports say as many as 90 may have died including turkish engineers that were working nearby tossers been following events for us from nairobi in neighboring kenya and that death toll is slowly rising and there were real fears it could be quite high. But we know that dozens of people theyve been killed and dozens of people have been injured and officials are saying that that number would likely rise because with such a huge explosion we know among those killed include some Somali Police up. And some civilians what happened was it happened at a security checkpoint in the Early Morning and people used this checkpoint to come in to mogadishu so it was very busy they were going to work we were told University Students are