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Tonight: So | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
Claims that just ONE hospital could be responsible for scores of serious | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
The Scottish question ` how will our businesses fare if Scotland goes | :00:13. | :00:20. | |
The annual Appleby invasion begins, as thousands arrive | :00:21. | :00:26. | |
The only soldier to be awarded the Victoria Cross on D`Day. | :00:27. | :00:33. | |
The incredible heroism of Stan Hollis from Middlesbrough. | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
And, the D`Day veteran whose hopes of a reunion with old comrades | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
on the Normandy beaches have been dashed ` by a spelling mistake. | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
In sport, an England call`up for fast bowler | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
Liam Plunkett seven years after he last played in a Test match. | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
And, the rugby player who'll be playing in the Premiership next | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
season after coming through the ranks at Middlesbrough. | :00:57. | :01:07. | |
This week on Look North, we've been asking why so many people | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
in the North East who dial 999 have to wait so long for an ambulance. | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
Tonight, a claim that scores of incidents may be down to problems | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
Tonight, a claim that scores of incidents may be down to problems | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
The North East Ambulance Service transports patients to 11 Accident | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
and Emergency departments in the area it covers | :01:27. | :01:28. | |
from the Border with Scotland, down to County Durham and Teesside. | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
We've obtained a report which suggests that out | :01:32. | :01:33. | |
of 126 serious incidents, when patients were delayed admission to | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
hospitals for more than two hours, 71 happened at the University | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
So, why are patients waiting, and who really is to blame? | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
With this exclusive story, here's our health reporter, Sharon Barbour. | :01:44. | :01:57. | |
Responding to an emergency, but the North East Ambulance Service has its | :01:58. | :02:05. | |
own serious problems to deal with. Understaffed, underfunded and under | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
attack for taking hours to reach patients left lying in pain. She was | :02:10. | :02:17. | |
lying on the floor. It is beyond a joke and you wonder now if anything | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
will happen. How long it will take. I've never called an ambulance | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
before and when you want it it's not there. I feel pain for all of the | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
people who suffer and I am sorry about that. I wish I could make it | :02:33. | :02:40. | |
better. But our investigations into problems at the North East Ambulance | :02:41. | :02:42. | |
Service have revealed something else. As patients wait for an | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
ambulance to arrive, we've learned that many ambulances are being held | :02:48. | :02:56. | |
up with patience sometimes for hours at Accident and Emergency centres. | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
Last year, in just six months, over 10,500 delays were recorded by | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
paramedics as they handed over patients to A For the paramedics, | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
it means they are of the road, trapped in queues and unable to | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
respond to the stacking 909 calls. We're tied up so emergencies are | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
stacking up waiting for us to clear at hospital. It is frustrating, | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
especially when you're patient isn't well. We've also learned the vast | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
majority at `` occurred at just a few hospitals are most at the | :03:34. | :03:40. | |
University Hospital of North Durham. We put an ambulance liaison officer | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
in at crucial times into their emergency department to help with | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
the handover of ambulance patients into the acute hospital. We've also | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
seen documents that show hundreds of other patients may have been kept | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
waiting outside A said in `` centres had the paramedics not | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
driven away to another hospital. Most of these patients were diverted | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
away from the University Hospital of North Durham. It is listed here. | :04:08. | :04:15. | |
Here are some of the reasons. On the 8th of April, A is close to all | :04:16. | :04:23. | |
but life`threatening can `` cases. On the night, certain patients | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
cannot be taken to the hospital in Durham. Later, surgery patients are | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
diverted away. On the 13th, the hospital is again forced to divert | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
patients away and the list goes on and on. It shows problems with | :04:38. | :04:44. | |
paramedics taking patients to a major A centre. At best, this may | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
cause inconvenience for the patients and paramedics and delays in the | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
whole system. At worst, could it put lives at risk? | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
Joining me is Professor `` Professor Chris Gray. So, do these delays lead | :05:02. | :05:10. | |
to lives being lost? Thank you for the opportunity to talk about this. | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
It is important to keep this in context. There are delays in the | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
system and the system is coping hard to cope with pressures. We have seen | :05:20. | :05:26. | |
the response of all the emergency services to the appalling incident | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
of the school bus crash. They respond when needed. Whenever a | :05:31. | :05:37. | |
patient needs emergency care or resuscitation our doors are open. | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
But there are peaks and pressures and we really do struggle to | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
deliver. There are times we let patients down and they have an | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
appalling process of care and for that we are very sorry as we do not | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
aspire to that as a trust. We want to provide the best possible care. | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
Our staff are working very hard and they do care. I want to thank them | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
for everything they do because they work beyond their contracted hours | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
as do the ambulance staff. But the numbers who present are challenging. | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
Our hospital at North Durham was designed to 12 years ago for 30,000 | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
attendances each year. We present DC 63,000 attendances every year. | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
Is that why there are more delays there? | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
I think it is partly that. So many patients come through the front door | :06:31. | :06:37. | |
and require admission and we have pressures in the hospital. What | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
happens is the ambulances back up at the front of the hospital. One of | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
the big challenges we have to the ambulance service is we know there | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
are ambulances waiting outside and yet still they come. Other hospitals | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
have far less pressures. We need to share this workload out because our | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
hospital at Durham is at maximum capacity. | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
But there must be a quick fix? We have to fix it and we have clear | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
pounds. This winter, we've invested in excess of ?5 million in | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
additional front line staff and support services but we need to do | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
more. What we intend to do is increase the capacity of our | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
emergency department and increase the size of that using existing | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
resources. We are looking at reallocating beds at the Durham site | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
to create more capacity in what we call the back of house. We think we | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
can take pressures off that way. We have to look at schemes to support | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
patients so they do not have to come to hospital but support them in the | :07:47. | :07:49. | |
community and to manage their own conditions. Support them in a more | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
timely way when they are in our beds. | :07:53. | :08:19. | |
Business leaders in the region say they are unclear what the | :08:20. | :08:35. | |
uncertainty over Scotland independence could mean for them. | :08:36. | :08:47. | |
Amazon were considering putting 900 jobs here but they chose to go to | :08:48. | :08:55. | |
Dunfermline instead. Managers here say an independent Scotland would be | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
a fierce competitor. As Edinburgh 's nearest neighbour, we will feel that | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
more than most. We need to have more control over spending and more | :09:06. | :09:12. | |
control over how are offering is perceived to these large occupiers | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
to make sure we can remain competitive. Those concerns among | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
businesses in our region are coming into sharper focus as Scotland | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
prepares to vote on independence. Around 240 companies in Cumbria and | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
the north`east gave their views to the BBC in a questionnaire sent out | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
by the chamber of commerce to its members. 63 of them said that if an | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
independent Scotland were to cut corporation tax, they might consider | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
investing north of the border. But a majority of them, 176 said it would | :09:47. | :09:54. | |
not make any difference. And that is the case for the Durham firm | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
building this new estate in the Scottish Borders. In the last few | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
weeks they bought a Scottish building firm. Whatever the result | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
in September, they are confident of the future. It is a strategic | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
decision to expand our his nurse. We employ 75 people in Scotland and | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
maybe 100 in Cumbria. What difference should it make? | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
Construction works across borders and we have international companies | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
working in the UK. But the chamber of commerce in the region says the | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
big problem is a lack of information ahead of the referendum. Businesses | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
are holding back on making investments because they are waiting | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
to see what the outcome will be. That is disappointing. To a certain | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
extent, there is an inevitability but I think people on both sides of | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
the debate could do more to provide clarity to enable businesses to move | :10:52. | :10:58. | |
forward with clarity. There are concerns from some businesses that | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
an independent Scotland could leave yawning gaps in our economy. | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
A soldier who died in an accident at an army training centre | :11:10. | :11:12. | |
Sergeant Mark Foley of The Light Dragoons was killed in a | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
military vehicle on Warcop training area near Appleby yesterday. | :11:17. | :11:19. | |
Sergeant Foley leaves a wife and two daughters. | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
His Commanding Officer said he was, "A consummate professional, and his | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
injured after two school buses crashed head`on in County Durham, | :11:27. | :11:36. | |
will remain in hospital tonight. The children are from Tanfield | :11:37. | :11:38. | |
School and include a 12`year`old boy who suffered severe facial injuries. | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
They were travelling on the single`decker coach, involved in the | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
The deputy Prime Minister says a factory is evidence of a revival in | :11:45. | :12:01. | |
the north`east. The high`tech site makes parts for aircraft and the | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
investment has secured hundreds of jobs in the firm. What you are | :12:05. | :12:12. | |
seeing here is a marriage of those old, fine traditions of the | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
north`east of manufacturing and designing things, making things and | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
exporting them and marrying that to world beating and cutting`edge | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
technology and skills. We've it here and at Nissan. We can build on that | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
and be part of a rebirth of match in that `` manufacturing in the | :12:33. | :12:33. | |
north`east. There were long tailbacks on the A66 | :12:34. | :12:47. | |
today. Police are asking drivers to be patient. | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
It wasn't easy travelling on sections of the road around Appleby | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
today. Where the road narrows, queues built up as traditional | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
caravans made their way to the festival. This isn't an organised | :13:05. | :13:12. | |
event but it is a happening. We have very little control over the numbers | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
coming here. It is a traditional event and they come to meet their | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
families and socialise. Our main issues are around road safety and | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
people coming in and giving the right advice about being safe around | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
fast horses. Old friends were meeting up after another 12 months. | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
The horse fair here may have been writing `` Manning for hundreds of | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
years but the police say there is no sign of it slowing up. More people | :13:43. | :13:49. | |
seem to want to come here for the fair. It is the best fare in | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
England. It is a brilliant fare. That is why we come. I love to see | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
the way the horses ran down the hill. I always kept horses, Welsh | :14:00. | :14:06. | |
cobs, and it is quite a holiday for me. But with recent rainfall there | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
were concerns about river levels and the washing of horses. This is the | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
deepest I have seen the river in five or six years and there is a | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
health and safety concern about horses going in, for horses which | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
are small mainly. We don't want the horses going in if the river get any | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
higher. We will have to monitor it. All front line police officers in | :14:30. | :14:44. | |
there are to be equipped with body cameras. They will be given to | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
special constables as well and community support officers. It is | :14:49. | :14:55. | |
argued that they ring criminals to justice more quickly. Domestic | :14:56. | :15:02. | |
violence incidents is something that have benefited from officers being | :15:03. | :15:05. | |
at the scene recording the impact on the victim and for those victims who | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
don't want to go to court, we can take the suspect to court on the | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
back of the evidence we get. He should have been in Normandy to | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
mark the 70th anniversary of the D`Day landing but Jim Peaks has | :15:23. | :15:25. | |
missed out because of a spelling mistake on a form. 91`year`old Jim | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
has had to stay at home in County Durham. | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
A Northampton boy who married a Durham girl and became a war hero. | :15:38. | :15:44. | |
Let us see what he has to say about D`Day. D`Day was... A funny day. | :15:45. | :15:56. | |
Don't let his reticence fool you. He lied about his age to enlist and | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
fought through Sicily and Italy and in the Desert rats. He then came to | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
England to prepare for the D`Day landings. When his passport renewal | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
form went in, his son`in`law misspelt his name. | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
When you got the invitation to go to Normandy, where you going to go? | :16:19. | :16:27. | |
Yes, I was. I wanted to go back and see the beaches where we landed. I | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
also wanted, if possible, to seek anybody that I knew. If I could see | :16:33. | :16:40. | |
somebody and say, hello, mate. How are you doing? I knew I couldn't but | :16:41. | :16:48. | |
I was hoping. That would have been lovely. I was the baby of the | :16:49. | :16:58. | |
squadron. They were older than me so we are talking about men now four or | :16:59. | :17:05. | |
five years older than me. Say 9697. I knew there was not a lot of | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
possibilities, but if I had seen one it would have been worth going. | :17:11. | :17:17. | |
What a shame. This chap was there too. In France | :17:18. | :17:23. | |
he is a hero but in Middlesbrough he is largely forgotten. Stan Hollis | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
was the only soldier to be awarded the Victoria Cross on D`Day. The | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
campaign to raise enough money for a permanent memorial in Middlesbrough | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
is still ?10,000 short but his granddaughter says a fitting tribute | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
is long overdue. Here is the first of two special features on this | :17:42. | :17:43. | |
extraordinary soldier. On June the 6th 1944, Allied forces | :17:44. | :18:05. | |
assaulted the Normandy coast line. It was the biggest seaborne invasion | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
in history. Amongst the soldier was Company Sergeant Major 's Dan | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
Hollis. This unassuming Middlesbrough man became the only | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
soldier to be awarded the Victoria Cross on D`Day. Today, his | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
granddaughter is on the beach at the very spot and at the same time he | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
fought his way ashore 70 years ago. What is going through your mind? How | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
desolate it is and how much open ground there is to cross. It is a | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
long way to get across when they are firing at you and the chaos going | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
on. I'd bet they just wanted to get off the beach and out of the way, | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
sort of thing. Stan's war began before he left his | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
landing craft. It was a glimpse of the fighting spirit that would earn | :18:56. | :18:58. | |
him the Victoria Cross and see him through the rest of the war. Stan | :18:59. | :19:04. | |
noticed a pillbox on the high water mark on the beach and he grabbed a | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
machine gun, took it to the lip of the landing craft and fired a long | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
burst at it. But the building wasn't a pillbox. In fact, it was a small | :19:16. | :19:22. | |
railway stop and until a few years ago it had the bullet marks on the | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
wall from his machine gun. The men who made it off the beach faced the | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
task of advancing inland against lethal German resistance. Stan and | :19:34. | :19:41. | |
his men were told to head for the house with a secular Drive, shown in | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
this Spitfire reconnaissance photographs, which is still standing | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
today. As they approached they were pinned down by German machine`gun | :19:52. | :19:58. | |
fire. His company advanced up and across the fields and across the | :19:59. | :20:01. | |
road. When they reached the line of the hedgerow behind us they came | :20:02. | :20:09. | |
under fire from the pillbox which their commander identified. He said | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
to Stan, " there is a pillbox there". He showed a disregard for | :20:14. | :20:23. | |
his own safety. He grabbed his Sten gun and charged across open ground, | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
hosepipe being the pillbox ahead of him. In this rare archive recording, | :20:28. | :20:34. | |
Stan can be heard describing his actions in his self`effacing manner. | :20:35. | :20:58. | |
Having neutralised the first pillbox coming he then kept moving forward, | :20:59. | :21:05. | |
again completely alone, until he came upon a second. Stan then | :21:06. | :21:12. | |
continued to a communication trench which led to a pillbox here. By | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
then, I think the Germans had had enough. Seeing him charging up was | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
enough. In all there were about 30 prisoners. This action was | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
enormously significant. Not only did he save the lives of many in his | :21:28. | :21:30. | |
company but he also allowed the route up from the beach to be | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
cleared. That was important for the success of D`Day. Having landed on | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
the beach, fought his way up the hill and successfully taken on to | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
German pillboxes, he had already done enough to earn himself a | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
Victoria Cross. But that is only half the story. | :21:49. | :21:56. | |
You are wondering where the second half is. We will have more on his | :21:57. | :22:04. | |
remarkable exploits tomorrow. And there is more on the interview with | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
Dan on the breakfast show at 6am. You can hear the documentary on his | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
trip to Normandy with his granddaughter tomorrow morning. | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
It is time for the sport now and it is all good news. | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
Great news for Liam Plunkett who has been recalled to England's test side | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
for the first time in seven years. The former Durham player from | :22:30. | :22:36. | |
Middlesbrough thought his test play might be over. He joins Yorkshire 's | :22:37. | :22:46. | |
two players in the 12 man squad. There is no place though for Ben | :22:47. | :22:53. | |
Stokes or Scott Borthwick. It was a night to remember for a young rugby | :22:54. | :22:56. | |
player from Middlesbrough who will be in the premiership next season. | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
He came through Middlesbrough 's ranks and plays for London Welsh. He | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
scored a try in the championship play`off last night and it was | :23:08. | :23:10. | |
eventually given after lengthily consultation with the video refs. He | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
helped his side win promotion to the top flight. Tom May lifted the | :23:16. | :23:22. | |
trophy there. A number of competitors for a region | :23:23. | :23:25. | |
have been named for the Commonwealth games today. | :23:26. | :23:33. | |
They will represent the country. 31`year`old Dan Carter won silver at | :23:34. | :23:49. | |
the Delhi games in 20 ten but hopes to do even better in Scotland this | :23:50. | :23:59. | |
summer. `` 2010. I got a couple of medals in the last games so I would | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
love to do similar or even better coming up. It is massive for us. The | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
Commonwealth Games is really there for us and we take it extremely | :24:08. | :24:13. | |
seriously. It is a pinnacle for us. Time for the weather now. | :24:14. | :24:21. | |
A few weeks ago, I went in dismal weather and tried to spot the | :24:22. | :24:28. | |
ospreys returning. Since then, the birds have mated, laid eggs and | :24:29. | :24:36. | |
chicks have started to appear. Of the six eggs, five have hatched so | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
fingers crossed for another successful year for them and it | :24:42. | :24:47. | |
looks like the trout there is going down a treat. | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
Better weather for most of us tomorrow. A dry and sunny day. | :24:52. | :24:58. | |
Feeling warmer. One or two showers around this evening will Peter out | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
as we head through the evening. A dry night. One or two missed patches | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
forming. A light, southerly breeze. A fine | :25:08. | :25:23. | |
and dry day tomorrow with patchy cloud around but it will be well | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
broken. Most should see good sunny spells through the day. | :25:28. | :25:42. | |
A mostly southerly breeze tomorrow. In between the weather systems and | :25:43. | :25:50. | |
things are set to change on Saturday. This weather front coming | :25:51. | :25:59. | |
in from the west will bring Shari Raine. The risk of some really heavy | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
thundery downpours. By Sunday, things are quieter `` it will bring | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
showery rain. The possibility of thundery rain on | :26:12. | :26:22. | |
Saturday. It is something to bear in mind if you venture outdoors. They | :26:23. | :26:30. | |
will probably be in Cumbria and in the morning on Saturday. A fresher | :26:31. | :26:37. | |
feel to things by the time we get to Sunday. In the north`east, the risk | :26:38. | :26:44. | |
of rain on Saturday and local thundery downpours. A few flashes of | :26:45. | :26:50. | |
lightning but some places will probably miss this completely. Dry | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
and brighter on Sunday and feeling warm through the weekend. One or two | :26:56. | :26:57. | |
showers on Monday. The headlines: two days of | :26:58. | :27:08. | |
ceremonies to mark the 70th anniversary of D`Day have begun in | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
France with Prince Charles amongst thousands of visitors honouring | :27:13. | :27:15. | |
those who gave their lives in the Second World War. | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
A report suggests that just one hospital, the University Hospital of | :27:20. | :27:24. | |
North Durham, was responsible for half of all serious delays in | :27:25. | :27:27. | |
treating 909 patients in the north`east. | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
We will be back at Trent 20 5pm and tomorrow we are on at seven o'clock | :27:32. | :27:43. | |
`` we will be back at 10:25pm. We will be back at the later time of | :27:44. | :27:45. | |
seven o'clock tomorrow because of It's a weekly selection | :27:46. | :27:53. | |
of hand-picked stuff from Radio 2, and then it's delivered | :27:54. | :28:02. | |
straight to you. | :28:03. | :28:06. |