20/03/2014 East Midlands Today


20/03/2014

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In And now the news for the East Midlands, I'm Dominic Heale, good

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evening. An inquest has heard how a pensioner

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died after she was left unsupervised in a care home with solid food she

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shouldn't have been eating. The care home looking after Betty Arch was so

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bad the Care Quality Commission took the unusual step of forcing it to

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close. Our health correspondent Rob Sissons reports. Betty Arch was 87,

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she had been left unsupervised in a room with the leftovers of

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sandwiches. Even though she was not supposed to have solids. Care plans

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were not kept up to date at the home and nutrition was not properly

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monitored. Staff reported being run ragged. They told the inquest they

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had not done enough. It happened back in 2012 and the now closed

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Spring Lane residential home at Langley in Nottinghamshire was the

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venue. We heard about a catalogue of feelings and inspectors became

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concerned. The owner was Shirley Paul, carrying this white not bad,

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which she used to hide her face. She told the coroner she had nothing to

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do with care homes and has no plans to get involved in them again. She

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was asked during the hearing, directly by the coroner, if she

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understood the unexplained death. She said it had been investigated.

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The coroner said there was a great deal you did not know. The manager

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of the care home, Catherine Maltby, she said she had asked for more

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staff but it was not met with a positive response from the care home

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owner. The coroners questioned whether

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tablecloths may have been removed from the tables to save on Monday

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bills. The Care Quality Commission said

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they had no other choice but to close this home and to go to court

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to do it. The judge agreed, the owner contested it. The hearing has

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been adjourned for the coroner to deliver her conclusion.

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Dramatic pictures of the moment an elderly woman was robbed in

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Leicestershire have been released to try to trace her attacker. It

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happened in Melton Mowbray in December. Police want to identify

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the man seen here on CCTV. He turns round, approaches the 75`year`old

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from behind and grabs her bag. The pensioner suffered only minor

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injuries. Tonight, officers say they've been contacted by people

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offering information about who the man might be.

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Next tonight, the blind man refused service because of his guide dog.

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Steve Cunningham told us a restaurant turned him away and then

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a takeaway refused to let him in unless he left his Alsatian outside.

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Sarah Teale reports. I wanted to change the negative

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focus of a disability to a one. This is Steve Cunningham, giving a

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motivational talk, something he does at every day. He encourages people

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to understand disability. So he was particularly disgusted at his

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treatment at these two premises. Steve said first this restaurant

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refused to allow him to gain with his ulceration dog. Despite being

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allowed into this kebab house on Tuesday, last night, they were both

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told to leave `` Alsatian dog. You should not be in a situation where

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you are faced with these challenges and barriers. Gade dogs for the

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Blind and the general public spent thousands of pounds enabling an

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amazing animallike Foster to help me with my independence. To slap me in

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the face by not allowing me into a restaurant as incorrect. Blind and

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partially sighted people are entitled to the same rights as

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services like restaurants as everyone else. They should amend a

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no dogs policy to allow gay dogs onto the premises, that is what

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Steve Cunningham believes. Steve went blind at the age of 12, the

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same age as Alice, one of the pupils who listens to him speak today. She

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is going to have her first gay dog on, how will she feel if she gets

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thrown out of a venue? It must stop. Well, the owner of both premises

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told us tonight that staff had not been aware of the laws surrounding

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guide dogs. `` deed dog. They've apologised and said no offence was

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intended. A motorist from Leicestershire is

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calling for a roundabout to be re`painted after she was involved in

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an accident. Ann Corbett hit another car in Whitwick ` she says she

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didn't see the roundabout as the paint was so faded. Helen Astle

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reports. This is the roundabout that's the problem. Motorists do not

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seem to see it, so they do not stop. Ann Corbett hit another car because

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she didn't realise the roundabout was there. The first I knew about it

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was a crunch on the side of the car. I had seen no road markings that had

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led me to think that I needed to stop at the junction. I considered

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it to be very worn out and dangerous because two other people, heard

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speaking, said there had been two accidents there that week.

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We have only been here 15 minutes or so and nearly every driver chooses

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to either ignore or doesn't see the roundabout. Locals say it is

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dangerous. It is very low, you go straight over it. And that's just

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rubbing all of the paintwork off, so anyone not knowing the area, it's

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very hard to see and you can easily get caught out. People pulling out

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the junction and many a time it is either clear or someone goes into

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the railings on the other side because they are trying to avoid it.

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It is quite common, actually. Ann Corbett's accident was in November

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and she has asked the county council to ask for the roundabout to be

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repainted. I am concerned for other people and County Hall has assured

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me that they would send someone out. Had they seen the state of it,

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surely they should have done something about it. Leicestershire

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County Council says it has visited the site and the road markings are

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due to be repainted in the next few weeks.

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Time for the weather. We are in for a drier mates tonight

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with clearer skies making it feel quite chilly. The rain has moved

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away but we still have one or two showers at the moment. Those will

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ease away. We have lighter winds with temperature starting to drop.

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We are looking at the likes of three Celsius for towns and cities, rural

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areas may get a touch of frost. A cold starts to Friday, bright and

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sunny. More cloud through the afternoon and then a scattering of

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showers. The showers are likely to be heavy in nature with the risk of

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hail and thunder. There could be strengthening South`Westerly winds

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and temperatures struggling to get into double figures. I will leave

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you with the outlook for the next few days. You

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fairly cool stuff, showers coming through and that's the theme. I will

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leave you with that summary. Good evening. The skies were clear for

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most parts of the UK and it will turn quite cold but we have to get

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rid of the band of rain slipping its

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