22/04/2014 Look East - West

Good evening. First tonight, the families who have just four weeks to

find new care home places for their loved ones. Relatives were told last

week that the company behind two nursing homes in Northampton has

gone into administration. There are now concerns about what will happen

to the elderly residents at the cedar`wood and Redruth homes if a

buyer can't be found. Stuart Ratcliffe reports. Frances has been

cleared for here since 2012, care that she says has been at the

highest standard. From day one, I had been made to feel at hole and I

have had absolutely fantasthc care. The care that I have had has been,

just the slightest thing is that it has done for me, I am helped in

every way that I want to be helped. And the news is that it is closing

has been greeted with shock and disbelief but only by the other

residents but also by their families. She's 80 years of age she

knows everybody, they are lhke family and friends, and all of a

sudden, you are uprooted and you have to try and settle in somewhere

else. When you are older it is not the same. Across town, it is the

same situation in the cedar`wood nursing home. This woman is worried

about how she will find a ndw home for her husband. The nursing homes

are not there for these people to go to because they need nursing 24 7,

and it is just not there. The Council 's problems began when the

Care Quality Commission raised concerns about the local holes,

which meant that no new reshdents could be registered, meaning fewer

patients, making the business unviable. Today, the administrators

have said that their priority is now to make sure that the needs of the

residents are prioritised and handled in the most sensitive and

professional manner possibld. There is not great swathes of card home

provision is out there, it hs something we are going to h`ve to

manage and manage carefully and it will take a period of time to do

that in a sensitive manner that we wish to follow. People need a good

quality of care. If no buyer for these homes is fine, they whll close

within a month. ``is found.. Earlier Ian Turner from the Registered

Nursing Home Association cale into the studio. I began by asking him

how difficult the situation is for both the families and residdnts It

can be very damaging and upsetting to all those concerned and to the

relatives, of course. For pdople who are living with in the later stages

of dementia, it can be extrdmely dramatic. The long`term memory will

still be the that the short`term memory will be almost nonexhstent so

they will not remember wherd they actually do live so to move them

into a different environment is dramatically them. How much

responsibility does the loc`l authority have in finding

alternative accommodation? Ly experience is that they bent over

backwards to make sure everxone is placed appropriately. That `lso

applies to people who are bding privately funded. What advice would

you give to relatives and rdsidents? I would say tops of the loc`l

authority, talk to the officers and the members and make sure that they

Care Quality Commission knows their views. The decapitated body of a

swan and three severed swan heads have been discovered by a l`ke in

Milton Keynes. The local angling club fears it may be the result of a

series of attacks carried ott by someone using a knife. The RSPCA has

started an investigation. Ott by someone using a knife. The RSPCA has

started an investigation. I was walking around couple of wedks ago,

and this is where we found the first severed head here. That was the

first four gruesome discoveries in the past month. Stephen, an officer

at the angling club, has discovered three severed heads and one body.

Somebody has taken the head clean off, because no animal was taken. It

looks like a pure, clean cut, so I believe it has been taken for food

or maybe somebody's idea of a sick joke. This is where the dec`pitated

body was found, and we have been given pictures of the swans, but

they are too graphic and distressing to broadcast. The RSPCA says that

most cases like this are natural cause by other predators, and they

confirmed that the RSPCA wotld be looking into these attacks, but

until they have seen the bodies they cannot comment on the exact cause of

death. The area is popular with anglers, parents and childrdn and

since then, patrols have increased. You would not want any child to see

it, because it would be verx distressing, like it would be for

anyone. If someone actually comes across somebody doing this, what can

actually happen if they are disturbed? You can see just how tame

these swans are here, and it is against the law to kill or hnjure

them and it carries a maximtm fine of ?5,000 and up to six months in

prison. Anybody with inform`tion is asked to contact the RSPCA. The

Green party has launched its campaign in the region todax, ahead

of the European elections. Lembers gathered in Cambridge to reveal its

manifesto. The party came close to winning a seat last time rotnd. It

hopes public dissatisfaction with the main Westminster parties means

it'll succeed this time. Th`t's all from the late team. Time to get the

weather now with Alex Dolan. There could be some messed patches

early tomorrow morning. ``some mist patches. It will be quite w`rm

tomorrow with highs of 70 ddgrees at 18 degrees. Then we have a weak

weather front moving in frol the west and for most of us it will not

arrive till after nightfall. It will be a cloudy afternoon with patchy

rain moving in from the west. On Thursday, earlier rain will clear

and largely dry on is not looking too bad. That's

weather front. It is never too early to think about

next weekend and I will be doing that in a couple of minutes. But we

have a sizeable chunk of this week's whether to go first. There

are more showers, but there will be spells of warm sunshine around as

well, so there will be no frost at night. Bands of showers across the

western side of the UK and Scotland's passing through

overnight. Another heavy burst coming into the