Afternoon briefing Friday 28th August

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0:44A lake that formed after Wednesday's disaster overflowed earlier this morning. Almost 500 people have died. The official says more than 90 ,000 people need assistance. Sky News correspondent Cordelia Lynch is in Nepal. She says the overflowing lake has prompted fresh chaos. So many local people trying to escape on motorbikes. A lot trying to get to higher ground. Panic set in immediately. Rescue teams telling us to get out. Everyone trying to flee as quick as they can. More than 200 extra police officers have been sent to Middlesbrough after a series of violent incidents. A seven-year-old girl and her aunt died in a house fire on Wednesday after seven others, including two officers, died in a head-on crash.

1:30Last night, several cars were set alight in a vigil for one of the young men who died in that crash. The Labour leader of Red Car in Cleveland, Council Alec Browns, told Times Radio that local people are fearful. The two events within such a small space of time are unprecedented. I mean, we've had nine deaths in the space of six days. Starting with that horrific A66 crash, I mean, to have to lose nine lives in such close proximity of each other, I mean, Grinch Town and Southbank wards neighbour each other, and that's led to people feeling unsafe in their own homes. The amount of money being spent by health trusts on diagnosing ADHD has risen by up to 10 times in the last year.

2:16Some NHS bosses are warning that autism and ADHD care is at risk of descending into chaos. Rebecca Gray is the Director of Mental Health for the NHS Alliance, a membership group for NHS organisations. We talked to one integrated care board and they're the NHS bodies that decide what kind of care is going to be delivered across a patch and pay for that care. And they saw their costs increase from about 11 million in 2023-24 and they're estimating they'll have spent about 50 million in this area by the end of this year. And Andy Burnham has launched a scheme to crack down on cowboy builders and private bailiffs.

2:54The idea is to help people find trusted traders through a register and protect their money from rogue traders. It'll operate partly through a new app. Business Minister Kate Dearden has been speaking to Times Radio. So you can have a really agreed timeline with your builder around when payments will be released. And that means you've got to reach those target milestones to do it. It sounds like more admin for reputable builders. For the other people who are turning up at the doorsteps and, as you say in your press release, speaking to elderly people and maybe duping them into work, it's going to have no impact at all.

3:28We'll, alongside the app, have an approved code that we've fully launched by the end of this year. And that's really clear around all the good practices that lots of these brilliant builders who have the transparency, who are treating people well and cracking on with their jobs, who are getting a bad reputation by these road builders. You can follow the Times Radio News Briefing on Spotify and listen live to Times Radio online. This episode of the Times Radio News Briefing is sponsored by PwC. AI is everywhere. In the news, in our hands, but return on investment, not so much. So how do you get beyond the hype and deliver AI that powers reinvention and growth across your business?

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