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Good evening and welcome to BBC Look North. The headlines tonight: | :00:05. | :00:08. | |
Failing to assess the care needs of older people. A leading charity | :00:08. | :00:18. | |
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accuses Hull City Council of breaking the law. These elderly | :00:19. | :00:25. | |
people, we owe so much to. I think it's wrong. | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
A murder investigation is under way after a woman's body is found on | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
the Queen's Sandringham Estate. The Chief Constable of Lincolnshire | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
Police announces his retirement. Enough is enough - Lincolnshire's | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
most senior councillor says he doesn't want the county to be | :00:37. | :00:47. | |
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turned into a forest of wind turbines. It has been a stormy | :00:49. | :00:58. | |
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start to 2012. The details are Social services in Hull are accused | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
of breaking the law by failing to properly assess the care needs of | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
older people. Age UK says everyone has a legal right to be fully | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
evaluated by their local authority. One family has told us they feel | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
emotionally pressured into caring full-time for their elderly father. | :01:16. | :01:26. | |
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Linsey Smith has this report. Enjoying a day out with his | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
daughters, but three months ago, Clarence Bamforth's family was at | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
crisis point. Dementia and poor health mean it Clarence needed | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
constant care. His daughters have made 20 phone calls to social | :01:38. | :01:45. | |
services, asking for help. It was like a wall. We were | :01:45. | :01:51. | |
struggling. We were not asking for anything more than advice and help | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
where it was needed. They kept a diary chronicling their attempts to | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
access support. It says how their father ended up in hospital with an | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
infection. It made me feel guilty that I was | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
trying to pass what I should be doing for my dad on to them. But I | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
just wanted their support. Elderly people like Clarence have a legal | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
right through the Community Care Act to have their needs assessed by | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
a local authority. Age UK recently conducted a national mystery | :02:22. | :02:30. | |
shopper study. Researchers rang local councils posing as families | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
needing help caring for a relative. This research revealed 16% of | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
people did not receive a care assessment, and 60% did not have | :02:37. | :02:43. | |
their options fully explained. are not giving people their legal | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
rights to be assessed, and to be able to access care. So they are | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
breaking the law. The government needs to look at this as an issue | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
and ensure there are measures put in place to ensure that the social | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
services departments are carrying out a legal requirement. Mandy | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
Pickering is not surprised by the findings. As a trainee social | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
worker in Hull, she has found the department under pressure and | :03:08. | :03:09. | |
overstretched, especially occupational therapists who carry | :03:09. | :03:19. | |
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out assessments. Very much so. I rang to have someone come out for | :03:45. | :03:55. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 203 seconds | :03:55. | :07:18. | |
Please get in touch. Look forward to hearing from you. The In a | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
moment: The Lincolnshire woman who's shown | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
no remorse for murdering her partner faces more than 20 years in | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
prison. The Chief Constable of Lincolnshire | :07:28. | :07:36. | |
Police, Richard Crompton, has announced his retirement. He says | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
he believes now is the right time to allow some-one else to take up | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
the reins. In a moment, we'll be hearing from Mr Crompton, but first | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
Leanne Brown looks back at his career. | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
He's well known for getting his hands dirty and joining officers on | :07:47. | :07:54. | |
the front line. Ones are now well, it is good to do this to remind us | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
of of what it is like at the sharp end -- once in a while. | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
Richard Crompton joined Lincolnshire Police as deputy in | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
2004 before being made Chief constable in 2008. The biggest | :08:03. | :08:10. | |
problem he faced was money.. The most controversial moment in his | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
career was when the authority announced it was raising it's | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
precept by 79% - that's the amount added to council tax bills. That | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
would have ment an extra �100 a year on some properties but it was | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
capped by the Government at 26%, and local councils had to send out | :08:23. | :08:30. | |
new bills. Not so people come up to me and say that if we can provide | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
more officers on the streets, they would pay more -- a lot of people. | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
He's leaving at a time when huge changes are about to hit. Last | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
month the authority signed a multi- million pound contract to outsource | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
more than 500 civilian posts to security firm G4S. They'll manage | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
the back room services such as control rooms. But Mr Crompton | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
leaves on a high. In the New Year Honours list, he was awarded the | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
Queen's Police Medal is recognition of his work. | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
I've been talking to Mr Crompton and he's been explaining why he's | :08:59. | :09:09. | |
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decided to retire. There are personal and professional reasons, | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
Peter. I joined the police force in London in 1976, so I have been | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
around for quite a long time. Everybody has to go at some time. | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
Professionally, having led the most fundamental change in policing in | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
Lincolnshire over the past few years, knowing that in April of | :09:29. | :09:36. | |
this year, we start a new relationship with a huge contract, | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
which is transforming the shape of policing in Lincolnshire, as | :09:40. | :09:46. | |
excited as I am about that, I think it is best for the organisation if | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
those who are working with the groups are here for a long time. | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
Lincolnshire is a first in the country to do this. His is giving | :09:55. | :10:01. | |
way to an outside organisation? Is it a step forward? I think it is a | :10:01. | :10:09. | |
step forward. I also since early in think this is something many other | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
forces and authorities in the country will follow in the years to | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
come. It is obviously to extend about saving money. You know we | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
have to save significant amounts of money, as do all other forces. It | :10:24. | :10:30. | |
is also enabling us to bring in investment. I could only have | :10:30. | :10:36. | |
dreamt of that in previous years. I do think it is a part of the future | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
of policing in this country. Being chief constable at the time that | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
the cutbacks is difficult. You have talked about it many times to make. | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
As a major decision to go easier? Not at all, know. -- has that made | :10:50. | :10:56. | |
your decision to go it easier? We are recognised as the lowest funded | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
force in the country. Dealing with a comparatively low budget compared | :11:00. | :11:06. | |
to other forces has been a constant throughout my time here. As your | :11:06. | :11:13. | |
budget goes down, policing in the county is bound to be less good. It | :11:13. | :11:19. | |
is a good time to go. Look at it this way. We're in the second year | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
of the comprehensive spending review. During last year, we lost | :11:21. | :11:28. | |
70 police officers, and members of police staff. All of the indicators | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
for crime rate, detection rates, they are all going in the right | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
direction, star I have never accepted it is just an automatic | :11:38. | :11:45. | |
thing to expect performers to reduce as many reduces. We have | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
proved it is not necessarily the case. I know I leave behind me a | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
force who were absolutely committed to continuing. Good to talk to you | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
tonight. A murder investigation is under way | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
after a woman's body was found in woodland on the Queen's Sandringham | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
estate. Detectives in Norfolk say they were alerted to the remains by | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
a member of the public in the village of Anmer on New Year's Day. | :12:09. | :12:19. | |
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Victoria Cook is in Sandringham for What has been happening there | :12:22. | :12:29. | |
today? The investigation has continued and will continue | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
tomorrow. The Sandringham estate is bus. This body was discovered one | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
mile from the Queen's Norfolk residence and then the last 15 | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
minutes we have had an update from Norfolk police who say that it is | :12:41. | :12:47. | |
the body of a young adult women. She was found in this area and had | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
been there for between one month and four months. The body was | :12:51. | :12:57. | |
discovered by a dog walker on Saturday afternoon. They still do | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
not know the identity of this woman, but they a win to start their | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
investigation by looking into reports of missing persons. | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
we're focusing on the moment at missing persons and we will | :13:10. | :13:18. | |
prioritise those missing closest to here. But at the same time, there | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
will be things established during the post-mortem that will lead to | :13:22. | :13:28. | |
the our identification of the victim, anyway. Where does the | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
investigation go from here, Victoria? The forensics teams have | :13:33. | :13:40. | |
passed the body to the coroner, and the body was the entrance -- | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
transferred to hospital in King's Lynn, where the post-mortem | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
examination was carried egg. There is also vase should be available | :13:46. | :13:52. | |
soon. There are other details, for example the state that the body was | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
found in, the clothing that woman was found in, those details will | :13:57. | :14:03. | |
not be released yet. At the moment the police, it does not discover | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
the body and the person that and people that left the body there are | :14:07. | :14:13. | |
the ones who know about it at the moment, and that is key to their | :14:13. | :14:23. | |
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investigation. Thank you for watching. Still ahead tonight: | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
Tough lessons for caretaker manager Nick Barmby after three defeats in | :14:28. | :14:34. | |
a row for Hull City. And the East Yorkshire children who braved the | :14:34. | :14:44. | |
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bad weather to take part in a centuries-old tradition. Don't | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
forget to keep those photographs coming in. The first of the new | :14:50. | :14:58. | |
year was taken in Pocklington. It is a picture of half-a-dozen the | :14:58. | :15:07. | |
rubbish bins that have been blown over. No more rubbish, please, at | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
that could happen down so that it would have been the lead story on | :15:11. | :15:19. | |
the national news! We can have a look at the top gusts of wind from | :15:19. | :15:29. | |
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It has been very windy but we have escaped the worst of it, that we | :15:34. | :15:40. | |
saw further north. It has been very windy and it looks like gale-force | :15:40. | :15:48. | |
winds to return later. Generally speaking, we should be well | :15:48. | :15:54. | |
protected, on what will be another West-south-westerly wind, up to 60 | :15:54. | :16:00. | |
miles an hour by the time we get to tomorrow evening. There is a cold | :16:00. | :16:06. | |
front that brought the squalling heavy rain this morning. Very windy | :16:06. | :16:11. | |
this evening, a scattering of showers, and it will eventually | :16:11. | :16:17. | |
move out of the way, the wind, easing a little bit of all we will | :16:17. | :16:27. | |
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not notice them using very much. The Sun will rise in the morning at | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
the following times. And the times of high water. It OBE a dry, bright | :16:33. | :16:41. | |
start across East Yorkshire, and Lincolnshire. There will be rain in | :16:41. | :16:48. | |
places, but the Pennines at as a shelter for us, so moral. Most | :16:48. | :16:56. | |
places should stay dry. -- tomorrow. We will have costs of 60 miles an | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
hour by tomorrow evening and the temperatures are about average for | :17:01. | :17:09. | |
the time of year at around seven Celsius. A Lincolnshire woman is | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
tonight beginning a life sentence for the murder of her long term | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
partner. Julie Dixon locked 46 year-old David Twigg in a cupboard | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
at their workshop in Burgh le Marsh before setting it on fire. The | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
judge described Dixon as "a resourceful and imaginative liar". | :17:21. | :17:31. | |
Our reporter Jake Zuckerman has been in court. Jailed for life. | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
Julie Dixon murdered her long term partner David Twigg at the couple's | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
joinery workshop in Burgh Le Marsh, in March 2011. She locked him in | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
this tiny store cupboard, and set the building on fire. At the time | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
Dixon told police it was an attack by two masked intruders, but later | :17:44. | :17:54. | |
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changed her story, saying the During her trial for murder at | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
Lincoln Crown Court, she finally changed her plea to guilty, but | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
claimed David Twigg wanted to die and she was just helping him end | :18:05. | :18:11. | |
his life. But her account was branded a pack of lies by the Judge. | :18:11. | :18:18. | |
Police today said she remained unrepentant. Even today, being | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
sentenced and Harding pleaded guilty to the fence of Motor, the | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
most serious offence you could have, even now, she has not fully | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
accepted what she has done, has shown no remorse and has said, to | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
this day that this was some kind of suicide pact that had gone | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
tragically wrong. The court heard Julie Dixon was hiding serious | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
financial problems from her partner, and that this was her motive for | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
killing him in a premeditated attack, even scouring the internet | :18:44. | :18:50. | |
for murder techniques. The judge said that David Twigg was an | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
amiable, honourable and hard- working man and that what Julie | :18:54. | :19:00. | |
Dixon had done to him was evil in its conception and execution. He | :19:00. | :19:05. | |
ordered her to serve at least 23 years before becoming eligible for | :19:05. | :19:13. | |
parole. "Enough is enough" - the words of the leader of Lincolnshire | :19:13. | :19:15. | |
County Council when it comes to building more onshore wind turbines | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
in the county. The government recently announced plans for | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
thousands more to be put up across England. But councillor Martin Hill | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
says he doesn't want Lincolnshire to become a "forest of turbines". | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
Our Environment Correspondent Siobhan Robbins reports. They're | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
the stars of the government's push for green energy. But, as a growing | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
number of turbines turn wind into power, they're also turning some | :19:36. | :19:45. | |
people against them. We're getting to the stage were enough is enough | :19:45. | :19:50. | |
in Lincolnshire. As the county council we do not want the entire | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
county to be covered by a forest of wind turbines. And he's not the | :19:55. | :19:57. | |
only one who's had enough. In Deeping St Nicholas, the windfarm | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
outside Delia Williams' house is trying her patience. We have all | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
low-level hum, and it can get loud at times. We have had a ornaments | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
fall off the wall and I think they a blot on the landscape. There are | :20:10. | :20:16. | |
plenty of other ways of getting a renewable energy. We have got to | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
have some sort of power station even with the wind turbines, | :20:20. | :20:25. | |
because if they do not work you do not have electricity. Lincolnshire | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
currently has seven working on- shore wind farms with up to another | :20:28. | :20:30. | |
seven in the pipeline. That compares to East Yorkshire which | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
already has six on-shore working wind farms with up to 13 more to | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
come. With around 2% of the country's turbines, can | :20:36. | :20:43. | |
Lincolnshire really complain? have got our fair share. There used | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
to be a regional target and Lincolnshire, loan, has supplied | :20:47. | :20:55. | |
the original target for all of the East Midlands. But for some, these | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
are the future. It's claimed wind power can cut bill, pollution and | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
increasingly will be out of sight. Marton Hill needs to look at the | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
benefits of wind energy. We cannot carry on as we are. If we want to | :21:04. | :21:09. | |
keep the lights on beer to find new ways of generating a was a city and | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
that means that as the coal-fired news -- power stations and nuclear | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
power stations which the end of their life, we have to find new | :21:18. | :21:24. | |
ways of generating electricity post of increasingly are seeing wind | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
resources -- wind farms built offshore, because the resources of | :21:27. | :21:33. | |
wind are even greater there. There is lots of money to be made in both | :21:33. | :21:39. | |
onshore and offshore wind turbines, but, for some, the visual impact of | :21:39. | :21:49. | |
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them is still too high a price to pay. You might want to comment on | :21:50. | :21:58. | |
that - do you agree with the leader of Lincolnshire County Council? | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
It's been a difficult Festive period for Hull City with no wins | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
in their three matches. There's also been no resolution to the | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
manager's situation. Lets go live to our reporter Damian Johnson at | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
the KC Stadium. Nick Barmby's been in temporary charge since November. | :22:10. | :22:19. | |
How close is he to taking the post full-time? We don't actually know. | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
Nick Barmby was promised a decision in the year, and here we are, in | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
the New Year. We are waiting on white smoke emerging from the Kacie | :22:29. | :22:36. | |
Stadium, like when the matches a new Pope at the Vatican. The new | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
year has come and gone but there is still no permanent successor to | :22:39. | :22:44. | |
Nigel Pearson. Nick Barmby remains a popular choice to take over on a | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
full-time basis. Some fans are getting impatient about the delay. | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
It is OK as a caretaker, but maybe he could do a better job as a full- | :22:53. | :23:03. | |
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time manager. He is a lad from Hull, that has come to this job and the | :23:03. | :23:10. | |
City. He is well liked by everybody. Nick Barmby has won three of his 10 | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
games in charge but a three straight defeats over the holiday | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
period have checked his progress. Nick Barmby is thought to want Farm | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
assurances about the ambitions of the Honour for the club, but one | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
former team-mate has told them to end the uncertainty so that the | :23:25. | :23:32. | |
Tigers can push for promotion. is all open air at the moment. The | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
most important thing for the football club has to get into the | :23:35. | :23:42. | |
play-offs. The players will want to know, is Nick Barmby taking it on | :23:42. | :23:47. | |
full time on the someone else coming in? Another concern is the | :23:47. | :23:52. | |
number of clubs that are interested in the club's best players, and | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
retaining their services could be key to Nick Barmby taking on the | :23:56. | :24:05. | |
job on a permanent basis. In League One, Scunthorpe United earned a | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
rare away win at Hartlepool yesterday - their first since | :24:08. | :24:13. | |
October. Scunthorpe took the lead in the first half, through Sam | :24:13. | :24:22. | |
Togwell. When Andy Thomson made it two. The victory moved stand-up | :24:22. | :24:30. | |
United clear of relegation danger. -- Scunthorpe United. You can | :24:30. | :24:40. | |
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contact me on Twitter - @DamianJohnson. This morning, | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
children in the East Yorkshire town of Driffield took part in the | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
annual tradition of scrambling. The event sees youngsters rush to scoop | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
up coins and sweets which are thrown into the streets by traders. | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
Sarah Burton his more. Some believe it dates back to the 17th century | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
when travelling fairs handed out sweets to encourage customers. | :24:59. | :25:01. | |
Today, the tradition of scrambling was kept very much alive in | :25:01. | :25:09. | |
Driffield. Years ago, they used to put hot pennies on a shovel, that | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
had been in afar, and would throw them up in the air, then the kids | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
would get them and warm their hands round them. That is how it started. | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
Children gathered as festive goodies were handed out. I think it | :25:23. | :25:28. | |
is one, because shopkeepers are getting involved at all the old | :25:28. | :25:33. | |
traditions. I have got a few chocolates, and a few chocolate | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
coins, as well. One familiar face was Kathleen Hubbard who wouldn't | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
have missed it for the world. She collects treats weeks in advance | :25:40. | :25:47. | |
for those taking part. I am 83, I have been coming here for a lot of | :25:47. | :25:55. | |
years. During the war, and everything. We would come with | :25:55. | :26:02. | |
brown carrier bags, and we would gather food up from the shots, the | :26:02. | :26:11. | |
were bananas, apples and all sorts, then. -- shops. And despite the | :26:11. | :26:13. | |
rain, spirits weren't dampened for this years scramble. Chocolate | :26:13. | :26:23. | |
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coins and pennies, still worth Let's get a recap of the national | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
and regional headlines. A jury at the Old Bailey finds Gary Dobson | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
and David Norris guilty of murdering the black teenager | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
Stephen Lawrence. A leading charity accuses Hull City Council of | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
breaking the law for failing to assess the care needs of older | :26:35. | :26:39. | |
people. Tomorrow's weather a bright start with some sunshine, clouding | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
over but staying mostly dry apart from a few spots of rain. It'll be | :26:43. | :26:45. | |
very windy again with gales developing later. Top temperatures, | :26:45. | :26:53. | |
7 Celsius. The response coming in on the subject of care for the | :26:53. | :26:58. | |
elderly. Marjorie has e-mailed to say, I have been waiting for a care | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
plan for my 81 year old has been for over one year, I am left alone | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
to watch him and taken to the toilet and lift him, and I am 70 | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
years old. Hull City Council do not care, and they are made to feel | :27:12. | :27:17. | |
like I am constantly complaining, but all I want is the best for my | :27:17. | :27:22. | |
husband. Another pure said, we contacted Lincolnshire social | :27:22. | :27:27. | |
services through the Community thus, when my mother's dementia became | :27:27. | :27:32. | |
severe, and received very positive advice and assistance. Thank you | :27:32. | :27:40. |