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Good evening. news where you are.

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It promised to be a tough wdek for the North East Ambulance Service.

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Yesterday the BBC Inside Out programme revealed how emergency

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crews were backed up, waiting to have their patients

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attended to at our newest hospital in Cramlington.

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Today, the Care Quality Comlission report into their recent

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But despite their much publhcised problems, it makes far

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Each year, the North East Albulance Service answers more than

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1.5 million calls and attends more than 400,000 emergencies.

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But each year the pressures grow and last year, the ambulancd service

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here was the the worst in the country for reaching

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the most critically ill patients - the RED 1 calls.

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So the service was expecting the Care Quality Commission

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to announce the service required improvement.

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We had wondered whether we would get 'requires improvement.'

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We did not dare to dream we would get a 'good.'

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The message back to us was we had tried so hard

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and when CQC came in April we had 100 vacancies for paramedics.

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The big issue, in terms of those most

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critical of calls, the performance is the worst in the country for

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It was at the time when the CQC came.

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We are now about second or third in the country

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We're still not meeting our targets but we have improved.

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Because of that response getting a good overall

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rating is an outstanding achievement for the North East

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Upstairs, around 300 call h`ndlers manage around 1,000 calls every day.

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It's a big population to send the ambulances out to.

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And on the road, only around 100 ambulances.

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And its what they are doing right that has been applauded by CQC

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inspectors in giving the good rating.

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Advanced Practitioners for example, developed

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are highly skilled paramedics, who can help patients and p`ramedics

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We have the same referral pathway and rights as a GP.

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So we see a patient diagnosed say with

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appendicitis and instead of going to A,

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we would post them to a surgical admission department.

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Back in the call room, alongside call handlers,

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who help decide which patients most urgently need an ambulance.

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Especially when there are no more to send.

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My job is to go back and evaluate and make

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sure we have adequate information

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and make sure the patient, the condition has not changdd.

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The CQC do want more clinicians,

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in handover delays at A , to free up paramedics.

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The stress on the service is still significant,

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Every 12 hour shift can be highly challenging.

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But today a ray of sunshine and celebrations, in the knowledge

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that winter pressures are jtst around the corner.

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From today, two of our region's police forces are working together

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set up across Cleveland and North Yorkshire.

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Senior officers say it isn't just about cost cutting.

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Big investigations make headlines, but they also eat up increasingly

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Now Cleveland and North Yorkshire police have set up a combindd major

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It involves bringing officers and staff already skilled in major

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crime investigation like murders together

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in a way meaning when an incident happens, both forces have greater

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levels of trained and skilldd resources to deploy quickly.

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There will also be specific cold case unit of nine people whhch help

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bolster support for long running investigations

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- including the disappearance of Claudia Lawrence in York.

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While the investigation will continue to be lead by the same

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North Yorkshire officers, the changes

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Periodically and robustly wd review outstanding cases between

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Cleveland and North Yorkshire to look at lines of enquiry.

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Not according to senior officers in both forces.

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Plans to merge the regions police forces were scrapped a decade

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ago after North Yorkshire had spent ?250,000

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But the Government says levdls of cooperation in the emergdncy

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services "are not as widespread as they could be."

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and Cleveland are working together already though sharing

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There's a wider picture of the emergency services

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cooperating too, fire crews across the north east have been

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working as emergency first responders.

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This year so far they've de`lt with over 1,700 calls.

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Police forces in both Cumbrha and Durham also share trainhng

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facilities with the fire and rescue service.

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and effectiveness and importantly reducing the time we

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need to pull officers and staff away from other

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things they're doing in the community.

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This is a new way of working for the police and both offhcers

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and the public will decide in the next few

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Newcastle City Council has revealed it intends to cut the pay of around

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The authority says it plans to abolish some extra payments

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for night-time and weekend working to try to save around

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It claims this would save around ?2.5 million a year and prevent

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A Virgin Trains East Coast driver had just three seconds to shelter

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beneath his train as another train flashed by at more

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The driver had stopped his @berdeen to London train north of York

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He thought other trains had been halted - but they hadn't.

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A police officer who was victimised by fellow officers

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because he was Asian, is claiming ?628,000

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Last November a tribunal found Nadeem Saddique,

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a firearms officer, had been discriminated against.

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Now a hearing is taking place to decide how much

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Stuart Whincup's report contains some racist language.

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Nadeem says that he and his family had suffered stress, unhapphness and

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misery in their battle with Cleveland Police.

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He said many of the police officers who were found

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to have discriminated against him have been,

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shocking things to come out of the tribunal,

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the claim a Cleveland Policd officer said they were going

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to go out and shoot a Pakistan child.

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That officer he said was still working at the force.

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The former Chief Constable described that as one of the most shocking

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things she had heard in her time in the police service.

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Nadeem said even today when he went out and

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about on the street and saw police officers

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now he says they ignored hil and they turned away from hhm.

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Cleveland Police tried to gdt him to return,

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they did try to help him and get him back but now they have

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He is looking for ?628,000 in compensation.

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That money would cover loss of earnings, retraining for

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another job and recover from the ill-health

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and pain he and his family have suffered, he said.

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He said Cleveland Police have offered him one year's salary.

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This hearing is about deterlining the actual figure of

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Last night we told you about Jessie and Ray Lorrison -

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the South Shields couple who've been married for more than 65 ye`rs

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but were being forced to live apart after Mr Lorrison went

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Mrs Lorrison had been told she couldn't live there with him,

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despite her own poor health, because she didn't meet

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Well, today South Tyneside Council confirmed that Mrs Lorrison

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Euphoria is probably not too much of an exaggeration to use.

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We're all really pleased about the result.

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morning in hospital, apparently, when she found out.

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Jessie's really going to get looked after properly,

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together, and hopefully spend whatever time

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I think it will benefit both of them immensely, just being...

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being able to see each other, holding hands, just being there for

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one another, it's going to benefit both of them hugely.

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That's it from me this evenhng, time now to take a look

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Still bright but chilly tod`y. Glorious sunshine but colder. Calder

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in the next few days. It is dry but largely clear. Temperatures are

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already dropping well into single figures. The coast will stax at

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roundabout four, five Celsits, inland and in the countryside easily

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cold enough for a touch of frost into tomorrow morning. A cold start

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tomorrow but dry and bright. Most of us will stay dry throughout the day.

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Maybe more clout than today. Not as much sunshine. One two showdrs

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clipping the North Yorkshird coast but elsewhere bone dry throtgh the

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day. It will feel cold exposed to the north-westerly breeze. @nd even

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in a bit of shelter, with stnshine, it will only struggle up to around

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10 Celsius at best, which is 50 Fahrenheit. High pressure in charge

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at the minute. Heading throtgh the next day, it will get pushed out of

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the way by low-pressure comhng down from the north, bringing thhs

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weather front with it. Cold in the next few days as this low shnks down

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from the north. Producing more clout and patchy rain at times as well.

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Into the next few days, tomorrow is fine, dry and cold. More clout on

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Thursday, showery rain in the West, similar to amateurs and temperatures

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in single figures going into the weekend. The odd shower but some

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bright spells. The summary for before turning unsettled. Good You

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know what, in

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