24/07/2014 Spotlight

That's all from the team here in Glasgow.

You Good evening. A 17`year`old from

Somerset says he fears for his life if he doesn't get the

psychiatric help he needs. Joe Dodd and his family

have been pushing for speci`list inpatient care after a suichde

attempt and dangerous behavhour but they say the local NHS

refuses to give it. The way that a living. I have got

scars all over my legs and scar is there. Covered in scars, Jod Dodd is

a very disturbed teenager who tried to kill himself in February. I see

and hear things, I do not rdally get help for that. What sort of things?

I see the bad people that htrt me when I was young, and I hear people

telling me to die. He was sdctioned under the Mental Health Act, his

mother says he was sent back to her a month later with no support. Jane

says she was not surprised when he ended up on the roof of a hhgh

building two months ago. I was sent down here by Joe's friends. I phoned

him on the roof of that building there, he was cutting his arms

again. I telephoned the polhce and the ambulance and they came and

detained him under the Ment`l Health Act. His conditions include PTSD,

something which he stems whdn he was taken into care when he was 12 years

old because of his challenghng behaviour. It started in Max 20 2

when he disclosed about havhng trauma at the care home. Jod needs

psychiatric help, and saying that he has not got a treatable mental

health illness, I believe that PTSD is treatable, and if he does not get

help for it then he has not got the future. A letter from anothdr

psychiatrist says that if Joe is not able to be managed in the community,

he should be considered for an assessment from a specialist

psychiatric adolescent hosphtal as an inpatient. Another letter from a

child psychiatrist who cared for him warns that it is highly unlhkely Joe

will recover in the setting of the family home. I am either gohng to go

to far and kill myself or end up hurting someone. I do not know what

I am doing. In a statement, the Child and

Adolescent Mental Health Service, responsible for Joe's care,

says while they can't comment on the case, it is sometimes not in

the patient's best interests to be admitted as an inpatient,

and they can be supported with a package of treatment

in the community. Detectives investigating

the death of a man in Cornw`ll say a BBC Crimewatch appeal

hasn't led to a breakthrough, in spite of 20 calls

to the programme. Alan Jeal, seen here on CCTV on the

day he died, was found with multiple injuries and a sock in his louth

on Perranporth beach in February. Detectives were hoping

for information about what happened to the 64`year`old the night

before his body was found. Vulnerable people living in

sheltered housing fear they'll lose support from wardens becausd of

cutbacks by Devon County Cotncil. The wardens help people livd

independently in their own homes. But it's costing the authorhty

?4 million a year, a sum it says should be the

responsibility of housing providers. David has mental health problems. He

recently moved into this shdltered housing scheme to get more support.

It alarmed me completely th`t I have just moved into the propertx, and

that is going to be removed. Funding cuts mean his support worker and

others like may not have a job after March. The most important thing

enabling them to stay in thdir own homes and be as independent as

possible. We help with things like correspondence, bills, financial

things like that, and also social inclusion. Helping them join clubs,

go to church, things like that. Across Devon, the County Cotncil

pays up to ?4 million a year towards these services, even though it is

actually the landlords' responsibility. Government funding

cuts mean they cannot continue to pay for the services. Counchllors

want to focus the money on directly supporting people with elighble

social care needs instead. Ht only cost ?500 a year per person in this

property, and if we end up going into care, you are looking `t ? 00 a

week. The company that runs the scheme is considering consulting

with tenants to see what services with tenants to see what services

they can provide when the County Council funding runs out next March.

The alarm services they havd which provides 24`hour cover will remain.

But the other support services that we will cease to have funding for,

we need to engage with residents to find out what bits are the real

priorities so we can remodel the service to try and meet those

priority areas. For residents like David, it remains a difficult time.

A group of night shift workdrs at a Plymouth supermarket

have hit the jackpot on the National Lottery.

The syndicate at a branch of Tesco won more than ?3 million.

So will they carry on stacking shelves

Scott Bingham has been to find out more.

The odds certainly stacked tp for this bunch of bubbly superm`rket

workers from Plymouth. The 05 strong syndicate, which also includes three

men and three other women who decided not to go public, check out

with a jackpot of just under ?3 7 million. It was especially dmotional

for the syndicate leader, who lost her husband David to cancer earlier

this year. My first thought was of my husband, and that he is not here

with me to enjoy it. But he has done this for me. He had a littld word

with the Lord above and said, let's do something. He is shining down on

me. He is watching over me. What could they buy with their share of

just over ?250,000 each? We reckon they could get themselves 100,0 0

Pastis, almost 50,000 cream teas, or maybe just under 40,000 fish and

chip suppers. And if you ard a football fan, it could buy back

Plymouth Argyle's captain. How will they spend it? It is my husband s

house, so I want to pay my lortgage. What about you guys? I want to buy a

car, but as for the rest of it, I don't know. By a bungalow for my

mum. Most of the group have that `` woad to stack shelves in thd

supermarket still. We laugh all the time, it is nice to enjoy pdople's

company like that. And we love each other. The next time you're late

night shopping, the smiles lay not be because they just love their jobs

so much. Congratulations to them. Th`t is the

way the news looks this Thursday morning. Time for me to say goodbye

and handover to the weather forecast.

Good evening. After today's hot weather, another warm nights to

come. Subtle changes in the weather pattern for tomorrow, more cloud

around, still going to feel very hot. The risk of an odd isolated

shower, but they are very isolated. Another fine day for most of us

High temperatures, perhaps lore cloud than we have seen tod`y. Some

of that quote is creeping towards us overnight, one or two showers across

Wiltshire and Gloucestershire. Some of those will come towards ts,

potentially fresh errors turning up in the small hours of the morning.

`` fresh showers. Overnight temperatures, 17, 18 degrees, warm

start tomorrow. More sunshine again for most of us, the chance of a few

showers developing, some of them moving through Cornwall in the

morning, it is fine and dry for a lot of us. Towards the afternoon, a

few more showers towards parts of Somerset and Dorset. Top telperature

of 28 degrees. By Friday th`t cloud has gone, another fine day, just the

chance of an isolated shower developing. For most of us, sunshine

all the way, a little cooler into the weekend, still a lot of fine and

dry weather. The United Kingdom forecast in a second, good night

from us. I leave you of some showers and `t Wilton cooler

from the north. The national picture comes from Philip Avdry.

Unusually, I can say good morning. Wednesday has been noticeable for a

number of reasons. From a meteorological point