Episode 7 Countryside 999

Rural Britain has some of the most challenging environments in the world.

In Scotland the mountains, lochs and coastline encourage tourists

and locals to get out into the wilds.

But with that comes danger.

Keep your arms by your side!

The emergency services north of the border have to deal with

extreme challenges every day.

Nobody in their right mind should have attempted to drive through this.

From severe weather and treacherous terrain...

-Is the pain getting worse, do you think?

-Yes.

..to covering huge distances on rural roads with time against them.

They work around the clock,

battling against some of the most difficult situations.

We'll be right at the heart of the action.

Side by side with Air Rescue saving lives.

On the road with paramedics caring for the hurt and injured

and following the police fighting crime,

as the emergency services work together to pick up, patch up

and protect the public in rural communities.

This is Countryside 999.

Coming up,

the Royal Navy helicopter crew race to rescue an injured lumberjack.

Are you with the casualty?

Police investigate a farmhouse ripped apart by metal thieves.

You see where they've cut the copper pipes from the cupboard there.

And in A & E, a sheep farmer has had a nasty quad-bike accident.

Up we come.

Despite the UK's ever-growing population

and our cities bursting at the seams, agriculture,

forest and woodland still cover 86% of the nation.

Many of our rural hubs are spread over vast distances,

adding to the challenge faced by the emergency services

On Scotland's south-west coast, HMS Gannet in Prestwick is home to the Royal Navy Search and Rescue Unit.

They play a vital role in reaching

and treating people in far-flung locations.

It's 11am

and reports are coming in of an injured forestry worker trapped in remote woodland.

9-5-2, 7-2-4, North, just north of Arran.

So we've got a 24-year-old male, who has been felling trees just on the mainland there.

So there's Bute, there's the mainland.

Basically he's got, he's got a tree on his leg,

he's got a broken leg and ankle.

With 21 years' service,

Observer Phil Gamble is on today's team.

ETA at half-past.

Rescue protocol gives the crew just 15 minutes to scramble

the Sea King mark five helicopter, but well-honed practice ensures that

pilot Lloydy Shanahan and the team are up in the air in no time at all.

Brakes are off, all good inside. Power check? Yes, please.

The team is bound 45 miles north,

to remote woodland on the Cowal Peninsula in the west Highlands.

Scottish woodland provides work for over 20,000 people,

but forestry can be a dangerous business.

We're heading up the mainland to the north and just,

just on this map as it changes over to the next one, is a little brook,

and hopefully a landing site in the woods.

So you mentioned as I was leaving the building that an ambulance

was en route, obviously they haven't got ambulance access.

The injured forestry worker is with his colleague,

at least a mile away from the nearest road,

so a helicopter rescue is the only option.

There's an ambulance on the way but we'll be there,

well, just about the same time.

Accessibility is going to be directly rough so we're going to go

and take a look and see if we can get in, either by landing or

possibly by winching our guy down to secure the casualty.

Phil's been given a mobile number for the casualty's colleague.

Now he can get vital information on their location

and the severity of the injury.

Hello, hi, this is Philip Gamble on the

Search and Rescue helicopter coming to you, can you hear me OK?

Are you with the casualty?

Is the tree still on him?

Nah, he's hung up.

They've lost the mobile phone signal,

so they still have no idea how deep in the forest the casualty is.

Or how difficult it will be to reach him.

We've got scant information about the landing site itself, so

one of the bits of info is there is a clearing that they think that we can fit in.

Now, obviously these guys aren't sure of the size of a Sea King.

If we can land there straightaway, then great, that will be

the quickest way to get our boys in the back out to the casualty.

Within 30 minutes, they've reached the forest.

The team spot a man moving on the edge of the tree line.

But as they draw closer it's clear landing is not an option.

Tree stumps and boggy ground make it too risky to land the 10-tonne,

17-metre long aircraft.

Even if we have to go into a 15-foot hover,

get the winch down, that's probably the best way to do it.

Finding a safer place to land would delay rescuing the injured lumberjack.

They don't know where he is in the forest, so there may be no option

but to hover and winch someone down to search for him on foot.

From agricultural accidents to crimes committed in isolated countryside,

the emergency services have many extra challenges in our rural areas.

The Landward Police Unit in Dumfries covers countryside communities

in an area larger than Merseyside.

Two of the team's nine officers, PCs Ross Dickson and Stewart Rae,

are heading five miles away to an incident at the heart of rural crime.

We're currently going to a potential house break-in.

The house is vacant just now and there's a theft of copper piping.

Metal theft is the UK's fastest-growing crime.

It costs the economy £220 million every year.

And don't think the countryside escapes metal thieves.

They travel far and wide to get their hands on this valuable commodity.

We get a lot of people travelling round in the rural parts

of the area just looking for scrap metal.

With the value of scrap metal at an all-time high, on top

of the current financial climate, metal theft is a problem nationwide.

It's a very common crime in this area,

we get a lot of scrap metal thefts.

It's not as common, house break-ins to get into the house,

and then steal the copper piping from within,

but it does happen and it's getting more and more regular.

A woman keeping an eye on an empty farmhouse that's up for sale

called police after discovering it had been burgled overnight.

The farmhouse is seriously off the beaten track.

Over 200 metres down a rough road, on a 9-acre plot.

We are quite far off the main road now,

no other buildings around, so if this house is vacant,

nobody's really going to notice or see anyone coming up here.

Remote, empty buildings are especially vulnerable to thieves.

It's obviously getting used and stuff.

But this is no ordinary break-in.

To get hold of the copper piping, the thieves have literally ripped

apart this isolated building.

You can see they've been here for quite some time.

Pulled up floorboards, radiators as well.

They've even taken the toilet off and everything.

There's a footprint there in the cistern.

Round here's where they've taken, you can see

where they've cut the copper pipes from the cupboard there.

They've stripped out the whole cupboard of the copper pipes, you can see where it's been cut.

Priced at around £5,000 a tonne,

copper has doubled in value over the last few years

They've been here for a while. It's obviously taken some time,

cos you can see they've bent up all the carpet.

In Dumfries and Galloway, metal theft accounts for at least three call outs a month.

The officers must now start piecing together the evidence that

might lead them to the perpetrators of this costly crime.

Potential for fingerprints off the toilet and cistern

and all that stuff.

Just getting our scenes of crime officer out to

come and take photographs of everything that's here.

Footprints, there's a database where we can send off these prints

and they can come back with the exact make of shoe.

It gives us something

to look at if we get somebody in with the same shoes.

But it's not just finger

and footprints than can help catch a thief.

Stewart's found more clues.

We'll obviously get imprints of these marks.

Scenes of crime can match them with screwdrivers or jimmy bars.

So far there's no sign of how the burglar got in,

only how they got out.

They've forced the door although there's no marks,

jimmy marks or screwdrivers.

So, we're just trying to see if it's just been brute force.

This is snapped...

See that from this side?

It would suggest they've got in somewhere else and they've came out this way.

There's two dents underneath the window here,

so don't know if they've forced the window open and jumped in through

the window that way, and they've had to break out, through the back door,

with the damage to the back door, it looks like that.

Collecting evidence is essential, but with no obvious suspects

what Ross and Stewart really need are witnesses.

When a local farmer turns up, he might have some clues.

Back in remote woodland in the west of Scotland,

the Royal Navy Search and Rescue Team are trying to reach

a lumberjack who's trapped under a tree.

They've spotted his colleagues, but don't know how far into the forest the casualty is.

The terrain's too uneven and boggy to land the 10-tonne helicopter,

so the only choice is to lower winchman Lee Haggerty down to find him.

-Lower the winch.

-Just mind those logs.

Coming down with ten feet to the ground.

Five feet to the ground. On the ground.

Disconnected. Raise the winch, raise the winch.

Once we get into the 10, 15-foot hover,

you can see that there's nowhere you can land on, just tree stumps, you've

got fallen logs, it's undulating ground, it's not worth risking

the aircraft when it takes two minutes extra just to winch down.

-Right, you, is it?

-Aye.

Oh, right, I thought it was someone stuck under a tree.

When we got there, there was two guys, there was a guy

out in the open area and a guy in the tree line.

I thought he was just indicating the casualty was inside the tree line.

It turns out the casualty was actually that guy.

Which is quite a shock and told him to get down as soon as possible.

Unbelievably, 24-year-old Brent has managed to get

out from under the tree

and drag himself 30 feet to the edge of the forest

Considering a hefty 80-foot tree has crushed his leg,

Brent's remarkably calm.

Winchman Lee's trained to ambulance technician level

so will do what he can to treat him, until they get to hospital.

The first thing he needs to do is cut open Brent's trousers,

but thinking how much they cost, Brent's not keen.

Just leave them, mate, I'll get a splint on you.

Knee cap's slightly off to the left, you can see.

-Pain score, what is that?

-That's a seven or eight, that.

He's badly injured, so the transfer to the helicopter could be painful.

-Sure you don't want any pain relief?

-No, I'm fine just now.

Going to be moving you, you might be in a bit of pain, just let me know and I've got some of this.

We offered him analgesia but he said he was fine.

But yeah, he was a pretty tough guy, big lumberjack,

to be expected really.

Brent's been a lumberjack all his working life.

Astonishingly, he's showing no signs of pain in what Lee believes

to be a broken tibia, in his lower leg.

So the tree sprang out when you was cutting it...

Sprang against me and trapped me against...

Cutting this one with a chainsaw, it sprung this way.

Bent him at the ankle, whacked him on the knee and knocked him flat.

Brent needs hospital treatment. But there's a problem.

They need to get him clear of the trees so they can winch him

on to the aircraft.

First, they must secure his leg.

Just placing a vac splint on him to immobilize his leg so it doesn't move in our transit.

Basically there's loads of little tiny balls in here, and then

you suck the air out, creates a vacuum obviously, then immobilizes.

-That OK?

-Fine, aye.

-Compressing the bottom of your leg as well, can you feel it?

Yeah, yeah, I can feel it.

Thankfully, Brent's workmates are on hand to help perform

a lumberjack lift.

Get that arm over your shoulder, and you cross arms at the bottom.

But being moved closer to the helicopter without pain relief could be absolute agony.

Right, one, two, three.

They might need a change of plan.

-I'm going to slip, going to slip, going to slip.

-You'll be all right.

Later, the Navy Search and Rescue Team attempt to recover the injured lumberjack.

And continue down 20 feet, slowly.

And the police are on the hunt for more thieves targeting

farms for valuable equipment.

I realise the chances of seeing it again are pretty slim.

But first, it's over to A & E where a young farmer has had a serious accident.

Something hit me in the face...

Like the police in this rural region of Scotland,

the staff at Dumfries Royal Infirmary look after

148,000 people

dotted throughout an area roughly the size of Devon.

It's just after six in the evening

and Dr Niall Campbell is working the night shift in A & E.

He's been a consultant here for over two years

so has seen his fair share of countryside incidents.

The trauma that we see is somewhat different to a city centre.

We see road traffic accidents, mountain biking accidents,

farming and forestry injuries.

With the rural road network, we will often get people who have

been involved in much higher speed collisions than would have

happened in city congestion.

Agriculture provides more than half of our food needs and in this

part of the UK, farming and forestry are the main sources of income.

Agricultural accidents are common

and today a young sheep farmer's suffered a bad one in the field.

I've been asked by one of the junior doctors to have a

look at a gentleman who's been in a quad biking accident on a farm

where I believe something's been thrown up and hit him in the face.

Like many farmers,

32-year-old David needs a quad bike to get around his farm.

Whilst checking on his sheep at dusk,

an object flew out of nowhere, giving him a nasty injury.

He's since been given morphine to help ease the pain

Can you tell me what happened today?

Do you know what it was?

Did it knock you off the bike?

No.

You stopped the bike then and didn't lose control of it.

Did the visor get smashed?

You don't know.

Despite the blow to his head,

David managed to drive his quad bike back to the farm.

If he'd been stuck in the field at night,

it could have been a very different story.

-I just wanted to clarify, you were brought here I think by one of your family, is that right?

-Yes.

It then took David's wife almost an hour to drive them 20 miles

from their farm near Lockerbie in rush hour

But the bumpy journey back over farmland to get help

could have made his injuries even worse.

Can I just ask, where are you feeling sore? Obviously your face.

Is it just the face?

Generally the whole of the head or any neck or back pain at all?

Although David's pain is mainly in his head, Dr Campbell needs

to make sure he doesn't have a more serious injury in his neck.

How does that feel?

Good. That's a good sign.

I'm just going to press,

let me know if there's anywhere that's particularly sore.

Is that OK round here?

It's not the first time David's been to hospital

because of his quad bike.

With a nasty head injury like this,

concussion, a minor brain injury, is common.

Niall must check for symptoms like nausea,

dizziness and vision problems

Open your eyes really wide, really, really wide.

Keep your head still, and follow my finger, just watch my finger,

and come all the way across.

Tell me if you see double. You might...

And up we come. And down.

We need to have a look at those wounds and get them sorted out.

I want to see if underneath, that the face has not been injured.

Can I just feel inside the mouth as well?

Let me know if this is sore.

Don't bite me, just a raise a hand.

OK on that side?

David's sent to have X-rays of the bones in his face to

check for any breaks.

Quad bike accidents are not uncommon,

certainly I've seen a few since starting here.

He has been wearing a protective helmet

and it does seem to be isolated to the face,

he's not got any neck or back pain, so I think we'll focus in on that.

The X-rays have come back with no sign of fractures.

The quad bike's visor protected David from more serious damage.

He's now been cleaned up and his wounds sutured together.

So I think you've been stitched up. How are you feeling?

Still a bit rotten?

I wouldn't be, I'm not surprised, that, you know,

the most common, the most common simple symptoms after any

kind of head injury are mild headache and dizziness.

You're nice and alert, I'm not noticing anything too untoward,

but the fact you're still feeling a bit rotten,

still have some headache, I'd prefer that we watched you

overnight to make sure that settles down.

And it gives us two advantages, it makes us, if things are not settling down,

we can think about whether we need to do any extra tests.

-We can make sure the eye's doing OK in the morning as well.

-Yes.

David will be kept in and monitored overnight.

But later, we'll see another young lad who's also had to make the 12-mile journey from Lockerbie.

-Are you able to move your arm at all?

-Nah.

At another farm incident, PCs Ross Dickson and Stewart Rae

have been investigating a break-in at an empty, isolated farmhouse.

The property's been ripped apart by thieves,

who have stolen all its copper piping.

A common countryside crime.

We'll go round the neighbouring farms and see

if they've seen anything suspicious.

Put out a media release

and we'll go round scrap metal dealers as well, see if

anyone's been in with copper piping and see what we can do from there.

Ross knows from his four years on the rural beat that cases like

these can be incredibly difficult to solve, especially without witnesses.

The woman who discovered it this morning said that it was all OK yesterday,

so it suggests that it's obviously happened overnight.

What we need to do is try and get the timescales narrowed down a wee bit more.

This is obviously a used farmyard, I would suggest that a farmer

would have been here mid evening last night,

so we can try and narrow the timescales down a wee bit more.

Ross is in luck when a local farmer turns up.

-When was the last time you were here, last night?

-Yesterday afternoon.

-Yesterday afternoon.

-One, half one-ish?

-Half one, OK. Had anyone coming up lately?

Well, there was people up here yesterday, but this house...

-For sale.

-Aye. And they were having a look round.

Right, OK. No problem.

Take it there was an estate agent with them, showing them around and stuff like that?

Not sure who exactly. There was two cars.

Two men and a woman.

Stewart wants to check if yesterday's viewing by two men and

a woman was genuine, but it's Sunday and the estate agents aren't open.

It could be completely innocent, but either way,

identifying the threesome could help their investigation.

The amount of piping of the copper they've taken will be worth

possibly £1,000 worth of copper, but the actual

value for redoing the house with the piping is much more than that.

With limited evidence and no solid leads,

catching these thieves is going to be very difficult.

We had scenes of crime out to check for fingerprints,

but unfortunately, there's no fingerprints anywhere.

It's in the middle of nowhere, rural area, they're not wearing any,

they're wearing gloves, they're not leaving anything behind for us

to go on, it gets very, very difficult.

However, we still investigate it as thoroughly as we can.

Crimes like these, in remote, rural locations, can be hard to solve.

Prevention is often the only cure, especially in the case of another farmer we'll see later,

who left valuable equipment out in plain view.

I noticed you're not securing the door.

A detached farmhouse, 200 metres from a road,

is nothing compared to the remoteness of isolated woodland.

Lumberjack Brent has been seriously injured at least

a mile from the nearest track.

Helicopter rescue is his best option.

Winchman Lee Haggerty from the Navy's Search And Rescue team is preparing to lift him.

-Are you sure you don't want pain relief?

-I'm fine just now.

We're going to be moving you, you might be in a bit of pain but let me know and I've got something.

Lee's stabilised Brent's leg with a vacuum splint ready to move him.

Now he arranges for the winch kit to be lowered.

Just getting some equipment sent down from the aircraft so we can get Brent safely recovered

The downdraft from the helicopter's nine metre rotor blades will

make the transfer across very rough terrain even more difficult.

Lee needs all the help he can get.

Get that arm over your shoulder and you get the other side,

and you cross arms at the bottom.

-One, two, three. Good. You happy?

-Aye.

Watch your feet, guys.

Despite now describing his pain level as an agonizing eight out of ten,

tough guy Brent has refused pain relief.

But he may soon regret that choice.

Are you happy, you two?

-I'm going to slip, going to slip.

-You're all right.

-I can feel you slipping.

-Do like the old...underneath together.

Ready, go!

I'm sinking.

The environment's horrendous, when you're on the ground,

it's undulating, you've got tree stumps everywhere, there's

a small stream which we had to extract him across,

and being only three guys there, he was a pretty big lad as well, it was pretty difficult.

The guys on the ground are struggling to carry

Brent between them, without causing him even more pain.

Observer Phil must guide the helicopter in as close to the trees as he dare.

Right only, 25 yards and continue down 20 feet slowly.

Every member of the crew uses focused effort to pull off this dangerous manoeuvre.

They must steer clear of the tree tops, flying just a 130 feet above the ground.

Seven yards, five yards, forward right, now back two. Four yards.

Just over the trees.

-Easy, easy, steady there, good position.

-Forward and left,

have to risk where we are now, OK.

Just got one tree on the nose at about 20 yards.

It was a horrendous position to winch, not only getting the winch in but extracting the casualty,

we'd gone through the tree line,

and it's too dangerous really, when we had another option of the highline, which basically allows

the aircraft to be away on an angle and then we can slowly take him out

to a safer area, before bringing him back up to the aircraft.

Brent is put in a cradle attached to a weighted line, or highline

so he's as stable as possible, whilst the aircraft

is in a tilted position to keep them clear of the trees.

Highline's not failed. 40 foot to the aircraft.

Easy and steady there. Continue left only ten yards slowly.

OK, raise the winch, just level with the door, OK,

and standby, you take winch control.

Right, lower the winch, lower the winch, stop the winch.

Now Brent's safe, the crew head for Glasgow.

Kinloss 1-7-7,

A-firm, are happy with Glasgow Southern General, over.

Lee hooks Brent up to monitor his heart rate.

A bit of weather on the moor and Southern General,

we're going to come straight along the Clyde anyway.

It's taken the Royal Navy Search and Rescue Team just 25 minutes,

rather than two hours by road, to safely deliver Brent

to the waiting medical team at Glasgow's Southern General.

Brilliant example of how we train hard, fight easy and

we brought all the skills together there and so it was excellent.

Brave Brent will now be examined

and X-rayed to find out the extent of his injuries.

From a common countryside accident, to a common countryside crime.

Just watch yourselves.

Investigations continue on the isolated farmhouse

raided for its copper piping.

Now, PC Ross Dickson's been called to another farm ten miles away.

This time he's joined by PC of 15 years, Matt Tate.

Just off to another farm where there's been

a theft of a pressure washer valued at about £2,000.

Agricultural theft is a common rural crime,

costing the UK over £50 million a year.

Power tools and machinery are some of the most popular items stolen

from farms, as one farmer, Allan, has just discovered to his cost.

How you getting on? Pressure washer?

I was at the market when my son phoned to say it was missing

and so I mentioned to one or two when I was there actually.

Was it chained up, secured?

No, no. Just sitting there, aye.

No-one round just looking for scrap?

No, I can't think, nobody, nobody springs to mind.

Do you want to show us where it was?

Aye.

And it seems Allan was lucky nothing else was stolen.

I noticed you're not, securing the door.

Well, there is, there is a lock for it,

You've got that driving lawn mower in there, it's an attractive bit of equipment.

Like the empty farmhouse, this farm is away from the main road,

with valuable gear in plain view, when nobody's home,

it becomes an easy target.

It just sits here, actually.

How big is it, it's about what? About three foot wide by...?

Aye, by five feet. Would take two people to lift it.

I realise the chances of seeing it again are slim.

That's it there, look.

They've dragged it down.

Yeah.

Costing two grand and weighing around a hundred kilograms,

a pressure washer is no easy piece of kit to steal.

It would have taken two people and a van to get it away.

Nah, it's a heavy, it is a heavy thing.

I'll get a statement off you, get some details off you and then...

He has stated that they were broken into a few years ago,

and they've made an effort to try and keep the place secure.

It's challenging to try and deal with this.

And, you know, farmers and stuff are keeping valuable equipment out

in plain view that people can come in and just see it and just take it.

It's always best to hide or secure expensive kit to prevent

yourself becoming a victim.

Back at the station, Matt's next step is spreading the word.

I will contact local businesses, any outlets that I think

that could be possibly trying to sell the pressure washer, and

then, we'll put the serial number onto the police national computer.

The police have set up an alert system, Farm Watch,

to help prevent crimes like this.

So on a follow-up visit, Matt takes Farm Watch Officer PC Derek Hughes.

There are around 7,500 farms in Dumfriesshire,

but only 450 are signed up to the Farm Watch Scheme.

Once you sign up to Farm Watch, we take your mobile number and

if we get a suspicious incident, whereby your pressure washer was

stolen, or somebody had seen a van, van going about, we could put

a message out via text message, to every farmer in the area saying,

"we're looking for a white van, registration number, such and such."

Anything that keeps criminals away is worth having a go at.

Finding stolen farm equipment in a region that's 70% agricultural

can be like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Now Allan has joined Farm Watch,

it should help stop an incident like this from happening to him again.

Protecting rural populations is a challenge for all

the emergency services, where huge distances and scattered

communities mean staff are stretched across a huge range of incidents.

In Dumfries, A&E medics deal with a hundred patients a day

Earlier, we saw Dr Niall Campbell treat accident-prone farmer David after a quad bike accident.

Now 21-year-old Andrew has travelled 12 miles from Lockerbie with a nasty shoulder injury

caused in a rather unusual way.

Doctor Ged Garbutt,

who's lived in Dumfries for six months, is taking the case.

Hello, Andrew, I've just come to have a quick look at your shoulder.

-I've heard from my colleagues that you've dislocated it, and it's something you've done before.

-Yeah.

Could you tell me what's, actually happened today?

-So you were just reaching for something?

-Aye.

It's the second time in six months that Andrew has dislocated his shoulder.

How did you dislocate it originally?

-And you fell that time?

-Aye.

Are you able to move your arm at all?

Yeah, well, I'm not going to examine you, I think what we'll do,

first of all is to, get you X-rayed and that'll tell us

whereabouts the shoulder is lying relative to the joint. OK.

We'll get that organised then we'll come back and see you.

Down there, hang a right then hang a left.

It's quite interesting that the mechanism of injury isn't

a fall or anything particularly traumatic.

I mean what he's telling me, he's actually just reached for something and thrown the shoulder out,

and what that implies is that there's a degree of laxity, looseness in the joint.

Shoulder dislocations need immediate medical attention.

Andrew has just two A&E departments in rural Dumfries and Galloway

he can go to, whilst patients in greater London, have 34.

Head on through there.

Stand with your back against that board for me.

That's lovely. Nice and still there.

This is an X-ray of Andrew,

and you can see that the, head of the humerus here isn't

actually sitting in the joint, it should actually be sat on,

on this cup here, but it's actually jumped forward and jumped out.

Our concern now is to, get him analgised,

make sure that he doesn't have any pain, try and make sure that

he's relaxed and then we'll try and pop this bone back into its socket.

Having a dislocated joint can be agony so getting

Andrew as relaxed as possible is key, and that means medication.

A lot of time people think that its brute force that does it,

and it's exactly the opposite. What you want is to get the patient comfortable.

So, we take our time, you need to be patient,

and if the patient is relaxed, it's a much easier procedure

So are you in much pain at the moment?

-A wee bit.

-A wee bit.

All right, well we need to get on top of that and try

and get you very relaxed.

The more relaxed you are, the easier it is to get in.

So I'm going to give you some painkillers to start with, OK.

You're going to probably start feeling a bit woozy.

Just going to give you a little bit more of this.

It's an extremely painful procedure so Ged isn't taking any chances.

Andrew's given gas and air, the sedative Midazolam

and the powerful painkiller Morphine.

They will help block out the pain

and make Andrew feel as relaxed as possible.

Give you some more morphine, OK? Nice big breaths

It looks like the medication's working.

How are you feeling?

Better. Better than before.

Very good, that's what we like.

What I'm going to do is to lie you back, yeah,

keep sucking on that, yeah.

Ged carefully manipulates Andrew's arm,

rotating it until he can feel the joint click back into place

-How you doing?

-OK.

-Yeah? We can stop this now.

I felt it clink in so I'm quite, you know, I'm pretty optimistic that

it'll be in the right place, but we need to get it X-rayed again, OK?

Hi, Andrew we're back again.

There's one final X-ray to check everything's in place,

then Andrew will need monitoring as the drugs wear off.

Post reduction, we can actually see that the humerus is now,

back up, sitting in the appropriate joint on the scapula.

Hi there. You feeling better?

Well your shoulders look the same from here which is good.

Yeah, so it's not down here anymore.

We've had a look at the X-ray and it looks fine, it looks as

though we've got the shoulder back into its joint, but what we'll

have to do now I think is to get you to see the orthopaedic doctors.

It'll be here, at the out-patients clinic.

All right, see you later.

With two dislocations in six months,

Andrew's weak shoulder may need surgery.

Every year in the UK, over ten thousand ops are carried out

to repair damaged shoulders, but for now he's fixed up

and ready to face the 12 mile bus journey back home.

See yous later!

It's been all go for the emergency services in Scotland's rural areas.

Sheep farmer David was kept in hospital for two nights for observation.

His wound is now healed and he's back out on his quad bike again.

Dumfries police are still investigating the

copper piping theft, visiting scrap dealers for any leads.

And lumberjack Brent, spent five days in hospital.

The break had gone down through his knee into his tibia.

He now has bolts holding the weakened bones together.

And you thought it was quiet in the countryside!

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