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Good evening and welcome to BBC Look North. The headlines tonight. | :00:06. | :00:10. | |
She was facing eviction. How this 97-year-old won her long fight for | :00:10. | :00:20. | |
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care home funding. The system stinks. The way they treat bit old | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
people is a disgrace. Told she would never walk after a | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
riding accident. Now Kate Hunter could be in the Paralympics. | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
The end of weekly bin collections for thousands of homes in East | :00:33. | :00:42. | |
Yorkshire. One man and hip -- one man had a piece of vice and I took | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
it away from his hand. The words of the Titanic officer | :00:46. | :00:53. | |
who sent the distress call four decades after his death. | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
There are more showers heading our way this weekend. I will have the | :00:57. | :01:07. | |
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forecast. Good evening. | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
16 months ago, 97-year-old year Jessie Carter was told she would | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
have to leave her care home in Boston. Four months ago, she was | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
threatened with eviction. But now, after a long campaign, she has been | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
told by Lincolnshire County Council that it will pay for her to stay. | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
Previously, the authority had insisted that she could live in her | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
own home with support. Her family say Jessie's case shows that the | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
care of the elderly in this country is a disgrace. Vicky Johnson | :01:29. | :01:39. | |
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reports. Desiderata cannot walk, nor can she | :01:43. | :01:49. | |
see or hear very well -- Jesse cattle. Lincoln Sir -- Lincolnshire | :01:49. | :01:55. | |
County Council had insisted she could live at home and look after | :01:55. | :02:01. | |
herself. I cannot get out of bed. I cannot get in bed. It has taken 16 | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
months to persuade the authority to let her stay here in Boston, at | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
there will be care home, after she was admitted in 20th January 11 on | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
the advice of her doctor. The council has only now agreed to pay | :02:15. | :02:25. | |
her fees, much to the relief of her family. It was unbelievable. | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
success of the family came after they sought advice from Pauline | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
Fowler, whose law firm is seeing an increasing number of these kind of | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
dispute. We are seeing more of these cases where they are at 10 | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
down, or have received funding for a while then it is withdrawn. | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
Because we're a big range care home had no firm contract with | :02:46. | :02:54. | |
Lincolnshire social services, -- will be a range, they are still | :02:54. | :03:03. | |
left with a bill. Many people are finding themselves with similar | :03:03. | :03:09. | |
problems. We have members who have thousands tidal been unpaid | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
residents bills, which is a worry for the care home and for the | :03:13. | :03:21. | |
family. Technically, it is their liability. Lincolnshire County | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
Council insists that Jessie was initially very healthy for her age. | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
They say the decision to fund haircare is because of her | :03:31. | :03:37. | |
deteriorating mobility. The system stings, in my opinion. The way they | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
are treating old FA Cup this country is a disgrace. Fought Jesse | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
and her family, this funding row has ended happily. But that will | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
not be the case for others. I'm joined now by Simon Bottery, | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
from the charity Independent Age, which offers help and advice to the | :03:53. | :04:01. | |
elderly and their families. This might be unusual, but what type of | :04:01. | :04:07. | |
issues does it highlight? This is a bit unusual, but it highlights some | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
really important problems. The first, as you refer to, is the | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
complexity of the system. Doctors and social workers do not | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
necessarily understand how the funding system works. For a family | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
member or the person themselves, you can imagine how difficult it is. | :04:24. | :04:34. | |
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Councils are happy to make Very Severe savings, and this is at a | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
time when there are more all the people who need care and support. | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
Something has to give. We are seeing far too many examples of | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
that happening. The general thinking is, if you have no funds, | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
you will get a care home place and be catered for? Is that too | :04:53. | :05:00. | |
simplistic? I am afraid it is. Councils will have a maximum rate | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
they are prepared to pay, and they will often ask relatives to top | :05:04. | :05:14. | |
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that up. There are lots of complications in the system. It is | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
incredibly important to get advice, and that you understand what your | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
rights are, and if necessary, take further advice from a charity like | :05:23. | :05:29. | |
Independent age or from a solicitor. What should be done? It will get | :05:29. | :05:35. | |
worse and worse as people live longer. Yes. The government has | :05:35. | :05:42. | |
promised a White Paper on this subject within the next month or so. | :05:42. | :05:48. | |
They have a report from the Dilnot Commission. That makes sensible | :05:48. | :05:56. | |
proposals. The government have that due to come out. We have to see | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
some serious action from the Government, before the system | :06:00. | :06:06. | |
really tipped over the edge. Good to talk to you. Thank you for that. | :06:06. | :06:13. | |
I'd be interested to hear your thoughts - and experience of this. | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
Have you had a problem getting funding for care? Who do you think | :06:16. | :06:26. | |
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should be responsible for paying In a moment: Why a multi-million | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
pound redevelopment of this Lincolnshire landmark has stalled. | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
She was told she would never ride again, but now this Lincolnshire | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
teenager is aiming for a place on Britain's paralympic dressage team. | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
Kate Hunter, who's 17 and from Market Rasen, was left with life- | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
threatening injuries after a riding accident back in 2009. Three years | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
on, doctors say she's made remarkable progress. Phil Connell | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
has been to meet her. At 17, Kate Hunter has defied | :07:09. | :07:18. | |
medical odds. An extraordinary girl with an extraordinary story. | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
worst fear initially was that we just would not have our daughter | :07:21. | :07:27. | |
back. Would she ever wake up from the coma? No matter what has been | :07:27. | :07:35. | |
thrown at her, she has overcome it. It is three years since a riding | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
accident left Kate in Hull Royal Infirmary with life-threatening | :07:37. | :07:47. | |
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injuries. She was in a coma for three weeks. Today, she has made | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
what doctors say is remarkable progress. Not just riding again, | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
but competing for a place on the Paralympic dressage team. It is the | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
best feeling in the world to know that I am one of the potential | :08:01. | :08:11. | |
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Olympic people. It is amazing. get this far, she has made | :08:12. | :08:22. | |
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astonishing progress. She has had to learn to walk and talk again. | :08:23. | :08:33. | |
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is quite humbling to see how they actually deal with it. The riding | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
is a huge part of their lives. They are more mobile on the horse than | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
they can be on the ground. doctor said I would not ride again, | :08:43. | :08:52. | |
but I can. It is amazing. Cater wants to make her career with | :08:52. | :09:02. | |
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horses. Incredible story. It's been revealed a Lincolnshire | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
headteacher resigned following a Government enquiry into financial | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
management at his school. Richard Gilliland suddenly quit his job as | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
chief executive at the Priory Federation of Academies almost two | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
weeks ago. Today, the Department for Education said the resignation | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
followed its investigation. A man's died after a fire at a | :09:20. | :09:28. | |
house in Scunthorpe. It happened on Cottage Beck Road. When fire crews | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
arrived, they found the body of man, believed to be aged 54, in the | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
bedroom. An investigation's revealed the fire started by a chip | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
pan left unattended. A Polish language newspaper which | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
covers parts of south Lincolnshire is expanding. Editors say it's | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
because of an increase in demand. The future of a failed shopping | :09:41. | :09:49. | |
centre built with public money is closer to being secured. South | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
Holland District Council agreed last night that Boston College | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
should be allowed to take over the Red Lion Quarter in Spalding. | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
A well-known Lincolnshire landmark will be transformed into shops, | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
offices and flats, despite the fact the district council is yet to buy | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
several vital pieces of land. It was exactly a year ago that | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
permission was given to redevelop Sleaford's huge bass Maltings site. | :10:05. | :10:14. | |
But work hasn't yet started. The building's seen as one of the most | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
important of its kind in the country, and there are fears that | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
if work doesn't start soon, it will fall into disrepair. Linsey Smith | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
reports. It's been hailed the most important | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
industrial building in Lincolnshire. Sleaford's Malting's were built in | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
1907 to process barley for beer. A new plan could see this derelict | :10:30. | :10:39. | |
site transformed into apartments, offices and cafe. It is a | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
significant building of some great scale. It has potential to bring | :10:43. | :10:52. | |
forward some economic benefits of its own. It can create over 500 | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
jobs. Planning permission was granted | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
almost a year ago for this project. But various land owners have so far | :11:00. | :11:09. | |
been unwilling to sell land that's vital to the project. Including his | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
patch, that would link it to the town centre. | :11:13. | :11:19. | |
It's frustrating for those who desperately want to save this site. | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
It is important that we preserve this kind of site. It shows how | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
people worked. Other former industrial buildings | :11:26. | :11:33. | |
have been redeveloped successfully. In Gainsborough, Marshall's Yard | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
was the site of an ironworks, now it's a thriving shopping centre. | :11:36. | :11:42. | |
In Barton Upon Humber, the Ropewalk is a successful arts centre. Hull's | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
former fruit market and the surrounding streets are now home to | :11:45. | :11:47. | |
an entertainment venue and boutique style shops, and The University of | :11:47. | :11:54. | |
Lincoln's new engineering school was a disused railway building. The | :11:54. | :12:01. | |
plans were met by scepticism. anything, I do not think they will | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
do it. It would be nice. In the present financial climate, it | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
probably will not happen. If it will create jobs, it has to be a | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
good thing. Unemployment is on the increase. I can see why they will | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
not want to sell the land. North Kesteven District Council say �100 | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
million of private investment would be allowed to slip away, so | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
eventually they will go down the compulsory purchase route for that | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
month. It will make sure the Maltings survived another 100 years. | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
Still ahead tonight: Why Hull could be a key battleground in May's | :12:38. | :12:48. | |
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local elections. The Titanic officer from Hull who | :12:50. | :13:00. | |
sent out the distress call as the liner started to sink. | :13:00. | :13:10. | |
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Fraisthorpe Beach taken by Muriel No relation, one can only assume! | :13:13. | :13:19. | |
Another picture tomorrow. Lisa Gallagher, eva. | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
A Good evening. My favourite e-mail today was, I | :13:23. | :13:29. | |
think we set was very cool about you in a wet suit. -- I think Lisa | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
was very cool about you. Cruel or accurate? | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
Do not tie anything! Today, we have seen plenty of | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
showers. It looks like tomorrow will be similar. We will see a | :13:44. | :13:50. | |
mixture of the sunny spells and showers. It is going to cool down | :13:50. | :13:56. | |
as we head through the weekend. You can see on a satellite picture | :13:56. | :14:03. | |
where the white clouds are, that is where the showers have been. Those | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
showers will continue in places as we go through the night. They will | :14:06. | :14:12. | |
not be as heavy or frequent as the ones during the day. Temperatures | :14:12. | :14:21. | |
depend on whether you see the showers. Where the skies are clear, | :14:21. | :14:31. | |
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you could see a touch of ground frost. Tomorrow, a cloudy start for | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
Lincolnshire. The cloud will break up and we will see spells of | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
sunshine developing. The showers will become more frequent as we go | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
through the day. Between the showers, spells of sunshine. I do | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
not think the show was tomorrow will be as heavy or frequent as the | :14:49. | :14:55. | |
ones we have seen today. Temperatures struggling for the | :14:55. | :15:04. | |
time of year. Nine of 10 degrees. As we head into Saturday, wintry | :15:04. | :15:11. | |
showers continue to feed their way down the coast. They will spill in | :15:11. | :15:19. | |
and on Saturday. There may even be a little bit of snow at times. | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
Sunday will be the coldest day. It turns wet and windy for the start | :15:23. | :15:32. | |
In three weeks' time, thousands of us will be going to the polls to | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
vote in this years local elections. Political experts say Hull will be | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
a key battleground this year, after labour gained control of the city | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
from the Lib Dems last time around. Seats will also be contested in | :15:42. | :15:49. | |
Lincoln and North East Lincolnshire. Tim Iredale looks at the prospects | :15:49. | :15:58. | |
for the parties. This year sees voters in Hull, | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
Lincoln and North East Lincolnshire go to the polls. One-third of | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
council seats will be up for grabs. In Lincoln, Labour are defending a | :16:06. | :16:11. | |
slender majority of one seat. In Hull, Labour have a larger majority | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
of nine seats, after the party snatched the city from Liberal- | :16:15. | :16:21. | |
Democrat control last year. The BBC's political research editor | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
believes Hull will be a key battleground again. De-seed been | :16:24. | :16:31. | |
fought this year were last fought in 2008. Labour won seven seats and | :16:31. | :16:39. | |
the Lib Dems won 12. Last year, first time the Lib Dems have been | :16:39. | :16:45. | |
in government for 80 years, they want two seats, and Labour won 17. | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
If that is repeated, I am not saying it will be, it is clearly | :16:49. | :16:55. | |
going to be pretty horrific for the Lib Dems. It is also worth keeping | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
an eye on North East Lincolnshire, which is currently a hung council | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
with Labour the largest group. The main three parties are defending | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
four seats here. I asked people in Cleethorpes what issues will | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
influence their choice at the ballot box. The most important | :17:11. | :17:21. | |
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issues are getting young people into work. That would help a lot of | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
our problems. Bringing the children to a beach, there is a lot of dog | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
dirt on the pavement. It would be nice to see that cleaned up. More | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
money for education. Some schools have not got enough places for the | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
children in their catchment. That is very unfair. If you are not | :17:41. | :17:47. | |
registered to vote, you have until next Wednesday, April 18th, to | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
register. Polling takes place on Thursday, May 3rd. | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
The BBC News website has more details on the local elections on | :17:54. | :18:04. | |
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the Vote 2012 page. More than 7,000 homes in East | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
Yorkshire are to lose their weekly collections of non -recyclable | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
rubbish. The council has announced it's to trial fortnightly | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
collections of rubbish and recycling bins in some towns and | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
villages. The trial comes six months after the Government | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
announced it would encourage local councils to keep collections weekly. | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
Crispin Rolfe is in one of the areas which will be affected by | :18:26. | :18:36. | |
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this. Crispin, why have they decided to change things? It comes | :18:39. | :18:44. | |
down partly to trends and party to the recycling aspects. Bolt of | :18:44. | :18:50. | |
councils are doing this kind of thing, where they alternate. The | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
Blue been is the recycling bin, picked up every month, but only | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
once. Compare that to the green game, which goes to landfill, and | :18:58. | :19:05. | |
that is picked up every week. They want to alternate between a two of | :19:05. | :19:11. | |
them. It is being trialled in 7,000 homes across the East Riding. Let | :19:11. | :19:20. | |
me tell you where. Cottingham, Brough, Keyingham, Little Driffield, | :19:20. | :19:25. | |
Swanland and Thorngumbald. There is a trial already in place in | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
Bridlington. They want to see this sort of push on a little bit, | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
because it brings into question how much they have to sent to landfill. | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
The other question is, whether people will buy into it. It is a | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
good idea because we are not filling our bins. We are putting a | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
lot more in our recycling bins. blue been get follow them the green | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
one, but the green on his collected every week. I think it is a good | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
idea. Probably a good idea to trial it. As long as they turned back if | :19:56. | :20:01. | |
it did not work. Why it has the council decided to do this trial | :20:01. | :20:10. | |
now? It comes down to finance. Compare | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
this empty blue been to this green one. It is fall. The council wants | :20:15. | :20:25. | |
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to see this switched round. We are responding to the hundreds of | :20:40. | :20:46. | |
requests we have received from residents, to increase recycling. | :20:46. | :20:54. | |
So when does this that? Next Monday, 23rd April. What will be the | :20:54. | :21:01. | |
measure of success, will be an awful lot less waste in this sort | :21:01. | :21:11. | |
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of been. Crispin, thank you. And this might | :21:16. | :21:24. | |
be a story you want to comment on as well. | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
And thanks for all your response on our story about plans for wind | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
turbines to be built close to a nature reserve near Deeping St | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
Nicholas. We had a huge amount of texts, tweets, emails and messages. | :21:33. | :21:43. | |
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Hull City manager Nick Barmby says he'll sit down with the owners at | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
the end of the season to plot the future of the club. City's playing | :22:14. | :22:21. | |
targets depend on which division they will compete in. The Tigers | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
still have an outside chance of reaching the promotion play-offs | :22:24. | :22:30. | |
after Monday's 2-1 win against Middlesbrough. We will sit down and | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
say how much money we have got. I just want to concentrate on the | :22:34. | :22:42. | |
games we have left now. And on the players who are here at the minute. | :22:43. | :22:46. | |
When the Titanic began sinking, 100 years ago this weekend, it was a | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
man from Hull who sent out the distress call that helped save the | :22:49. | :22:59. | |
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hundreds of survivors. Joseph Boxhall was the liner's fourth | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
officer. He worked out their location and ensured a ship came to | :23:04. | :23:10. | |
their rescue, as Anne-Marie Tasker's been finding out. I could | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
not hear any noise or see any damage. There was more man and a | :23:14. | :23:22. | |
piece of a ice, and I took it out of his hands full stop. | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
The voice of Joseph Boxhall, describing the moments before | :23:25. | :23:27. | |
Titanic's crew realised they faced disaster. He was the ship's fourth | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
officer and established the sinking ship's co-ordinates to ensure this | :23:30. | :23:32. | |
ship, the Carpathia, could rescue survivors. His cousin's grandson, | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
David Boxhall, lives in Cottingham near Hull. He remembers his family | :23:35. | :23:43. | |
being told how Joseph took women and children to safety. He used to | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
tell stories about getting away in the lifeboat. The main thing was, | :23:48. | :23:54. | |
these people were in the icy waters. Anybody who saw what was happening, | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
it must have been horrific. They are heroes, Rayleigh, to get those | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
people say. This is where Joseph Boxhall late, almost Bourne Avenue | :24:04. | :24:10. | |
in Hull. 100 years since the sake - - since the ship sank, there is | :24:10. | :24:16. | |
still a lot of interest in this house. People walk by and plant -- | :24:16. | :24:21. | |
people walk by and point up at a house. We realise they are pointing | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
at the plaque. Next month, an exhibition opens | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
here at Hull's Maritime Museum about the Titanic, in which Joseph | :24:28. | :24:35. | |
Boxhall will feature. He is perhaps the most famous Hull person who was | :24:35. | :24:45. | |
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on the shape. -- ship. He made sure an accurate location was sent out, | :24:48. | :24:56. | |
which reached the first rescue ship. This Sunday, many will remember the | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
1,500 who died onboard Titanic. But the Boxhall family will be | :24:59. | :25:07. | |
remembering the 700 saved, in part because of their ancestor. Amazing | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
story. Let's get a recap of the national | :25:10. | :25:12. | |
and regional headlines. There's a fragile ceasefire in | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
Syria for the first time after months of bloodshed. | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
A 97-year-old facing eviction wins her long fight for care home | :25:19. | :25:26. | |
funding from Lincolnshire County Council. | :25:26. | :25:36. | |
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Response coming in on the subject of care homes and the funding of | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
those. Someone says, the current older generation where it all | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
airlines are so there should be looked after now. Someone else says, | :25:53. | :26:01. | |
what is wrong with families taking care of their relatives? | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
Why pay tax if you have to fight to be looked after? Linda says, the | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
minority who needed should get high quality care subsidised by the | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
state. High quality care should not just before the wealthy. Dyke says, | :26:15. | :26:20. |