31/07/2014 Spotlight

Needlessly putting lives at risk. Criticism of the region's hospitals

after mistakes over penicillin. Good evening; the drug was given to more

than 70 patients even though they were allergic to it. The figures

have alarmed campaigners. The paraplegic teenager who's

Drama at the cold roast aired day. A plane crashes, but the pilot gets

away uninjured. The paraplegic teenager who's

sailing around the South West, There's criticism of the region's

hospitals tonight for needlessly Spotlight can reveal that penicillin

has been given to more than seventy people even

though they were allergic to it and that fact was recorded

on some of the patients' notes. The mistakes have been condemned

by the the Patients Association which says

the consequences can be fatal and Around one in 15 people has

an allergic reaction to Usually, it is mild`to`moderate, a,

fixing skin rashes, coughing and wheezing, and can be

treated with antihistamines. In rare cases,

between one and five people out of ten thousands, and antibiotic can

cause a severe or life threatening In response to freedom

of information requests, Beresford confirmed that there were

23 incidents last year when a patient with an allergy to

penicillin was given it. The Royal Cornwall Hospital says

that 32 patients were recorded At North Devon District Hospital,

six patients with documented allergy to penicillin were given it,

plus one with recorded sensitivity. The Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital

had 12 cases, one of those patients was wearing a red band on their

wrist, and six had the allergy Torbay Hospital said

its figures were so low it could not release them because it might

identify the patients. The family of one man who said he

did suffer a severe reaction have 80`year`old John Dowding died

at Derriford Hospital in 2012 after being given penicillin

despite being allergic to it. An inquest in May found that drug

error should not have been made, but His daughter thinks progress is

being made with the release I am a little bit disappointed that

it is so high, however, I am encouraged that at least they are

reporting all these incidents, and I am aware that the hospitals that are

performing the best are the ones Derriford Hospital says it

takes the risks associated with allergic

reactions very seriously, and it is reporting rate says it is showing

a strong patient safety culture. New figures obtained by Spotlight

show the true scale of homelessness They reveal that

around 500 people in The figure for Devon is 162,

in Cornwall it?s 69, in Somerset Campaigners say the economic

downturn has made matters worse. In one part of Somerset campaigners

are appealing for more people to offer their beds

to those who have nowhere to go. A makeshift bedroom in the centre

of Yeovil, and hundreds Calling

on homeowners to help the homeless. As well as having a spare room,

you would have to pass a vetting system Tom be able to take

someone in for up to seven nights in one go, and cook your test

at least one meal a day. Julie has helped 13

of these youngsters in Yeovilton over the past few years,

including Aaron Gilford. When you open your front door, you

are not really sure what you are going to see, and some of them are

very closed off, and very anxious. Once they have had a hot meal

and a shower, and they have had a good night's sleep, because some

of them have been sofa surfing for some time, the next morning,

they are a different person. Hosts get expenses to cover

the cooking costs, and if there is At this centre,

they are seeing a rise Officials blaming an economic

downturn for family break`ups. Our first point is always to see

whether they can work with families, work with young people to get them

to return home. But the reality is that

for some young people, it is not Jess is staying at an emergency

crash pad in the foyer. There are only two such beds there,

which is white the charity wants a dozen families to help with rooms

in future. Jess regards the room

as a bridge to somewhere better. have all the support here to cope,

so... The charity helps

youngsters to find work, as well, saying that unemployment is adding

to youngsters' problems. 16 to 24`year`olds remain

worst hit by the recession. A vintage aircraft has crashed on

the runway at RAF cold roast. As we heard earlier a pilot had

a lucky escape today at RNAS Culdrose, when his aircraft appeared

to lose power and crash landed. The pilot of the Sea Fury

escaped without serious injury. We would call this a crash landing

rather than emergency landing. You can see the fire engines. You can

see the plane from our NAS Yeovilton. Smoke came from the

aircraft. It was the penultimate aircraft display at five o'clock

this afternoon, and very quickly, the aircraft came down. Freelance

photographers took pictures of this, which we have now. We can run that

sequence of stills. You can see the engine smoking badly. But its

undercarriage does not come down correctly. The undercarriage

collapses, and it spins onto the grass, and the pilot, he got out and

walked away. The photographer Toby what he saw. A lot of smoke started

coming out, on the starboard side, and he seemed to have lost power.

There was a lot of smoke. He went straight across the crowd area. So

far, there has been no formal communication from the MOD or from

the Royal Navy. We will bring you their communication later. But the

important thing to say is that no one was injured in this. In

formally, naval pilots that were around this afternoon, they said

that if you were to crash, that was the textbook way of doing it.

Gliding into water. Meet Natasha, she was born with cerebral palsy.

There is no stopping this 17`year`old, thanks to this special

mechanism. It operates via a tube that she has in her mouth. At

present, she is in steering mode, and if Natasha was too sick, she

would go to starboard, and if she was to pass we would go to port.

Plymouth is the halfway mark in her challenge to sail the entire

south`west coast. The hot weather has made it harder. It is hot, but

Natasha is suffering. It can get pretty hot. I have had to stipulate

that the helmet has come off so we can browser down. She does not like

the autopilot! She thinks it is cheating. She would prefer to be in

control. Phil knows who is boss on board. But he is there to supervise.

The yacht has been specially adapted The yacht has been specially adapted

to create an air lock should it cap size, and there is a safety boat. It

is amazing. It often brings a tear to my eye, with a smile on her face.

She just loves it. She is hoping that passion will inspire others

with disabilities to get out onto the water. She is trying to raise

?15,000 for the RNLI and two other charities. She is an inspiration to

ceremony other people. What she is doing is extraordinary. The fact she

is going out there is testament to who she is. There is no hiding her

parents pride. Even if it is laced with trepidation. It is terrifying!

How are you feeling about it? Cool! It is cool!

Firefighters in the south west will be involved in a further eight

days of strike action in a dispute with the Government over pensions.

The Fire Brigades Union is unhappy that its members face the prospect

of dismissal if they can't maintain fitness levels up to the age of 60.

They're also unhappy at the cut in pension that happens

Prison officers say they have no confidence in the leadership

Staff at Channings Wood ` near Newton Abbot ` took a vote

on the issue after what they claim has been an increase in assaults.

The Ministry of Justice says Channings Wood is

a "safe and decent" prison with "low levels of violence."

Major roadworks are planned on the A38 that will last a year.

It's to replace a bridge that has concrete cancer.

The work is due to start in the Spring and will involve contraflows

and narrow lanes between Marsh Mills and Deep Lane in Plymouth.

Lifeguards have released this footage of a young girl being

rescued, to highlight the danger of rip currents.

She got into difficulty at Chapel Porth near St Agnes yesterday.

She's the ninth person to be saved on the beach in recent days.

Storms have created offshore sandbanks which allow strong

It's been another successful day at the Commonwealth Games

for Devon's lawn bowlers, with at least two silver medals guaranteed.

In the pool, Plymouth divers Tonia Couch and Sarah Barrow have

been back in action in the Preliminary round of the individual

event alongside England's youngest team member, Victoria Vincent.

The first dive in a major games for Victoria Vincent. What a massive

opening dive from VV! For VV, as she is known, it was a good chance to

dive without pressure. Victoria won the British title in June, and was

included in the games following an appeal. She did more than hold her

own. Nice dive from Sarah. Tonia Couch has defensive her chances of

another medal after finishing with another good diet. The good times

keep on rolling for Natalie Moore. She has booked a place in

tomorrow's final, meaning she has another silver. Her fiance is

looking to get a hand on a medal of his own. He's an action right now

against India. There will be another medal for the family. Sophie is part

of the women's team. We play of the women's team. We play

altogether. We play well as unit, and so we have to play the best

bowls we can, and hope we do it. Whatever happens, she is guaranteed

to walk away with at least a silver, and maybe a gold. It looks like she

may make it a gold medal, because she is leading by 20 points to one.

Well, one of the areas where Team England have excelled in

Plymouth's John Rudd has played a major part in that success

He's just got back from Glasgow and joined us earlier today.

John, first of all, many congratulations on a fantastic

performance by the team, but let's talk a bit about Ben first of all.

Certainly getting up to his name for his region.

What did you make of his performance?

We knew he was one of the fastest swimmers going into the competition,

but these art events where the margins are so small, you never know

So to come back with two individual gold medals, and...

Breaking the British record in both and the game trickled in by,

He comes across as a mild mannered young man.

I don't think there was anyone more surprised than him when he

His natural persona is to be quiet and very unassuming.

How have you worked with him to get him up to this level?

What is the training set schedule running up

Even for an event that lasts 21 or 20 seconds.

He swims nine times a week, he is in the gym a novel lot,

he spent a lot of time with the physiotherapist, running him

around and trying to make him better in terms of his muscular structure.

He has to eat rest a lot, and he has teak consume a lot of food.

But he is also doing a degree at University at the same time.

So his life is pretty hectic, and he has a lot to fit in.

You work with Ben on a weekly basis, but as coach of team England, you

So how different is it working with some of those swimmers

for a very short time as opposed on a weekly basis?

It was definitely a challenge, because we did not have a lot

of time to create what we wanted, which was an identity for England.

We said right from the outset, we thought Scottish people found it

quite easy to feel Scottish, and Welsh people had it easy to

feel Welsh, but in this people tend to feel British.

We wanted to create something that was an English identity.

We have a seven`day preparation camp, at the aquatic centre in the

Olympic pool, and we tried to create an identity, to deal part of a team.

I conducted one`to`ones with each athlete,

By the end of that, we have struck a bond, all of us.

We had a great group of coaches working with me as well,

We use the time wisely, and by the time we arrived in Glasgow,

Part of the team was Liam Tancock from Exeter.

He was doing well considering he was coming back

Many people had written them off, and one of the people with

To win two medals in the individual event, and heat swampy medley relay

heat, which meant he also got a gold as part of that relay as well,

That is a hell of an achievement to anybody.

He is good value to have on the team,

He is the old man of the team, and he brings positivity with him.

This has been fantastic success for team England.

Will you hope to have a role in that in 2016?

I would love to be part of convocation is that I'd do not

Hopefully, I will still be looking after Rita

at that stage as well, but I am sure that we will be involved in Rio

I know more competitions beckon, but congratulations

Culdrose, when his aircraft appeared to lose power and crash landed.

The pilot of the Sea Fury escaped without serious injury.

Apart from that incident though it was a day of celebrations,

Even before this afternoon's air show started, the crowd was treated

this mad display. The aircraft's callsign is golf echo... Gee`whiz.

The star of today's show must be this Vulcan bomber. It carried

Britain's nuclear deterrent in the 60s, and the pilot today is the man

who bombed Port Stanley runway in the Falklands. It has big engines

and it is very manoeuvrable. It is a delight to fly. He told me a little

earlier on, just before he set off this flight, that most of that noise

that we are hearing if the air sucked into those for huge engines.

It is an inspiring machine. It is huge. It has an amazing how, and I

think that is what people love to hear. The displays are carefully

coordinated by the team in the control tower. We have a response

worked out minuted by minute. There will be little slippages left and

right, but not by much. The important thing is we keep it calm.

The howl aim of the date is to put on a safe and enjoyable day for the

public. This helicopter is popular for a look around. In the last 24

hours, all of the Culdrose Sea Kings are back home. Now they are

preparing to return for the sea. It will be nice to get on board. It

will be good. It will be good to get back to the grassroots of what we

put in force. Back in the air, and the Culdrose whether state fair for

aircraft to complete their displays. The Canberra shining in the States

afternoon sun. No airshow is complete without what must be

Britain's most famous aircraft of all time.

The noise on television does not do it justice. Some decent weather

there. But things are about to change. Today has been the last

decent date. We are turning the corner as we move through this

evening and overnight. To much more unsettled weather. It does change

substantially. The main area of low pressure of each of the start of the

weekend, but it does move out of the way fairly quickly. Expect an

improvement. I will come to that in just a second. There will be

showers, and the showers will link together to give some more

persistent rain. It will be a little bit cooler, too. The showers have

just been to the north of us. The line of showers will continue to

move up towards Wales. Overnight tonight, some dry weather. Chance of

a shower anywhere, but temperatures not as low as they were last night.

Still the stream of showers close to the North Devon coast. Overnight

tempted will dip down to 14 or 15 degrees, may be lower than that, but

tomorrow will be a completely different start of the day compared

with what we have seen today. This is what we saw at else may be lower

than that, but tomorrow will be a completely different start of the

day compared with what we have seen today. This is what we saw at cosmic

where we had some cloud. Flora and fauna appreciating the weather, and

a lot of the blackberries a lot of the blackberries

appreciating it. A few spits of light rain around, but Culdrose was

lucky to stay dry. Tomorrow, these pictures may well seem a little bit

different. Those are the morning temperatures. Through the day, we

have one strand of showers that drifts along the Bristol Channel

coast. Coming up from the south`west, a line of much more

persistent rain. That is what will give us a bit of wet weather.

Little, if any, rain to come in to Dorset, but we do stay largely dry.

Note the wind is beginning to change direction. It ill become quite

breezy. The temperatures will be breezy. The temperatures will be

quite a bit down for most of us. For most of us, 17 or 18 will be the

maximum. Wet the sunshine holds on for the longest, 20 degrees. Here is

the forecast for the Isles of Scilly. We will find that it is

rather cloudy for much of the day. Not much sunshine, and the rain

becoming heavier. These are the times of high water.

For, the waves are bigger, and they would continue to be bigger, two or

three feet choppy on the north coast. The coastal waters forecast

had those winds. It is going to dominate the weather for the

weekend. This is the middle of the day on Saturday. Quite a deep area

of low pressure. North`westerly making it feel on the cool side. A

little bit brighter in the afternoon. The pressure moves away

from us. Don't expect the sort of cabbages we have been used to over

the last couple of weeks. Much cooler into the weekend. A quick

look at blast over the Commonwealth Games. Pride it will be cloudy,

turning a little bit brighter with showers in the afternoon. Here the

highest tempter of 15 or 16. It will be warmer here, but not by much. 18

or 19 B top temperature, but showers around as women improve as we move

into Sunday. Have a good evening. We will have more on the air crash and

the results from the Commonwealth Games bowls and the women's diving

in the late news on BBC1. In the meantime, have a good night.