16/11/2017 Timeline

Tonight, we are out on

the road with ambulance crews,

as latest figures reveal the scale

of attacks and abuse

they face every day.

And the Scottish adventurer trying

to become the first person

to cross the Gobi desert,

alone and in winter.

Hello and welcome to Timeline,

where we're also asking

whether the cookbook is dead.

Delia Smith says so,

thanks to recipes being

so readily available online.

And we speak to two

of the stars of ICW -

that's Scotland's growing wrestling

franchise - as they get

ready for a smackdown

at the Glasgow's Hydro.

CROWD SINGS

More from them later.

They're tasked with saving

lives in an emergency,

so why would anybody attack

or abuse our ambulance workers

while they're doing their jobs?

But sadly, it does

happen, all too often.

Figures given to Timeline show

that there were almost 300 reported

assaults last year across Scotland.

We've been out with

an ambulance crew to find out

what they're up against.

SIRENS.

I could tell you a story about

physical abuse. Anything that has

alcohol or drugs with it tends to

add fuel to the fire.

I haven't

instances where you're in the city

centre on a Friday or Saturday night

-- have had instances where you have

members of the public who are coming

on the run broadening into the

vehicle to take pictures of the

patient, which can be quite

intrusive.

They will lash out, be

verbally abusive, kick out.

Especially when you're trying to

help them. Sometimes, people don't

know what they're doing, some people

do know what what they are doing.

Going to Glasgow Royal for an amber

now, Robbie. This patient is going

from the cornea care unit at Glasgow

Royal infirmary -- quarry near care

unit for what we call a PCI, which

basically means they have had a

heart attack. I think it's important

to understand that the ambulance

service is primarily a health care

provider and we're there to look

people'shealth. Are you OK, they're?

We are not there to reprimand people

for taking alcohol, too much alcohol

or taking drugs, etc. We are just

there purely to help. Yes, we are

currently going to an RTC, appears

to have been phoned in by the

police. We know there was two

vehicles involved. Possibility of a

female casualties who is reported to

be pregnant. Robbie, we have been

stood down from it. We have been

stood down from the job. The

patience or persons involved had

decided they have not been requiring

assessment or treatment and it's

probably been cancelled by the

police. It's our job to risk assess

any situation we go into. And we can

call on the pleas for assistance if

required.

Sometimes, we have to

block the road. It's an emergency

call. Just a wee bump. We've got to

get to the person quickly, so we

have to block the road, no other

alternatives. But you do get a lot

of direct motorists who want past

immediately, they got an urgent

appointment to get it, they have

dropped it off at school, but a lot

of reasons people are not happy and

you can get a lot of abuse from

them.

We hope to make people happier

and healthier. Every day. Even if

it's things like people who have

acute falls, just helping them into

a chair and making them more

comfortable, making a cup of tea, if

they are happy to remain at home and

fit to remain at home, that's a job

well done for me. Ultimately, we

need to save lives if required. That

is the aim of the game.

Mark and Robbie allowed us

to shadow their shift in Glasgow.

but what's the picture

like across the country?

Well, there were 273 assaults

on ambulance crews last year,

158 of them were physical.

That included 19 in Edinburgh,

five in Aberdeen and 41 in Glasgow.

Over the past five years, figures

have remained relatively steady,

but the number of attacks in some

areas has gone up, with physical

assaults quadrupling in Hamilton.

Joining us now is Jamie McNamee,

who is national convenor

for Unite the union

and also a paramedic.

Thanks for coming in. What is your

own experience?

My own experience is

that I know friends and colleagues

who have been subject to both

physical and sexual assaults whilst

on duty. And I think it is fair to

say that the figures being reported

by the tab of the iceberg, because I

think the relevant point there is

reported. Violence, aggression,

abuse within the public services, in

particular the ambulance service and

the fire service, is very much

underreported as it is given as

business as usual.

Who does this

kind of thing?

I don't think there

is particular demographic, number of

factors come into play. You could

point the finger at alcohol, legal

highs, drugs. But sometimes, they

are just some nasty individuals in

the system that we have the

misfortune to encounter on a

day-to-day basis.

This includes

patients?

Absolutely. And it's not

contained to front-line paramedics

and technicians. We have support

services, hard-working individuals

within our control centres who are

abused on a daily basis on the

telephone.

What kind of long-term

effects does this have on your

staff?

I don't think it's just an

new style. I think they worry for me

is that people of a younger

generation may not experience they

care that I have been able to

experience because it's the water on

the Rock, visited? It's the

continual erosion. We have the

capacity within the Scottish

Ambulance Service, we are seen as a

default service for many of the

members of the public, whether it's

perhaps a reduction in mental health

care, the ambulance service is seen

as a default provider for that. And

the workload is just gone through

the roof. We don't have the

resources to cope.

I think you had

at one point 4 million calls last

year and half of them resulted in A

& E responses, several hundred

incidences of abuse and violence

being reported. What needs to be

done to reduce that?

I think we have

to increase the public awareness

that we are trained by the public

for the public, we are here as

public servants, we are not the

enemy. We are here to give you a

quality health care provision and

help improve your outcomes,

hopefully for you get to the

hospital but I've have you delivered

safely to a hospital environment

where you should improve to the

point of being discharged, fit and

well.

Is there a cultural thing, as

well? We heard there, there are a

lot of members of the public

complaining that an ambulance was

blocking their way to school, that

people should appreciate how

important it is Kuzmenko

I think

it's understandable that people can

feel certain anxieties, but I think

they would have to accept that an

ambulance is blocking the road, it

is because they are there to deal

with a high acuity emergency call

that could be a cardiac arrest, or a

vital -- we are vital seconds lost

could be a determining factor in

whether the patients arise are not.

Thanks very much for coming in and

sharing your experiences.

They do

very much. -- thank you very much.

If you have a story to share

or anything you'd like us

to follow up, then get in touch.

He's one of just 16 people ever,

and the only Scot, to climb

the highest mountain on each

of the seven continents and walk

to the North and South Poles.

Now, Newall Hunter has set off

on his latest challenge -

becoming the first person to walk

alone across Asia's Gobi

Desert during winter.

He spoke to us via webcam

from Mongolia earlier this week.

We don't think anybody has done this

in winter before. It's Scots at him

parry meaning the way on this, it's

Scots that had done the solo and

team challenges in the summer. --

pioneering the way. We are looking

at 1750 miles of desert with water,

which is very sparse. It's similar

temperatures to Antarctica, but in

Antarctica, you have snow, cover the

whole way across, you can go on a

sledge and carry a minimum and of

fuel. In the there is not much snow.

Which means you have to carry the

water and you just physically can't

carry that amount of water. So I

really need water every 3-4 days and

there are some sections that it's

really pushing that. We were trying

to find technical ways to solve this

problem, to find water, to get

water, and none of them work coming

up with any real answers, none of

them would work. The solution was to

go out and recce the desert, I have

cycled it already and worked with

local nomads, they know where all

the water is. I carry the food all

the way with me, it's all

freeze-dried. I will be burning

about 10-11,000 calories every day.

I will be taking Shepherd 's magpie,

chilli con carne, spaghetti

Bolognese, all the standards. They

are very high calorie, high-fat,

deliberately, to give me the highest

calories per weight that I can get

away with. I originally was an

engineer in air traffic control, so

managing risk is my business. There

are expeditions that I had decided

not to go on. Some people say the

wolves really are not a problem in

the area I'm going through, that

they had been hunted and persecuted

over the years and are so shy and

sparse that there is nothing to

worry about. And the other half,

that, yes, wolves are problem and

more so this year because there was

a bad summary and food is in short

supply. -- bad summer. I expect this

to take between 65 and 75 days. I

will take many copies of desert

island discs with me, rather than

music. Just having somebody talking

in your year is a lot better when

you're on your own than music

playing all day. But I am under no

illusions, this one could be

difficult and if I have to I will be

taking advice and help from the

local nomads in the desert, who

lives out there. And have done for

centuries. So if I get into trouble,

I will be going to them to see if I

can get some help.

Don't fancy that,

do you?

Absolutely not!

Well, we can confirm that Newall set

off on his journey a few hours ago,

a few hours later than planned.

All OK so far, and you can

track his journey on his website.

They made her rich, and have

helped inspire millions -

but now Delia Smith,

no less, says the cookbook is dead.

They still fly off the shelves,

but Delia says they're pointless

now that we can find

so many recipes online.

So is she right?

Here now is Vanessa Daley,

who's head chef at The Cook School

Scotland, and last year's

Professional MasterChef

winner Gary MacLean.

Wellcome, both. Gary, are you with

Delia? , not at all. I hope she's

not right, I have a book coming out!

I think the cookbook is you to stay.

Sales out. Market books sold last

year than since 2010.

What you

think, Vanessa?

I agree with Wood a

little bit. I think, for Delia, it

is right. I would say Gary is right,

cookbook sales are up, however, more

people do go online now. Social

media is a big thing, in Strabane,

you can get videos. It's more or

less -- more of a stocking filler,

at this time of year, sales are up.

What you both regard as essential

cookbook material to having your

cupboard?

There are a lot of

different things, as the necessary,

you can get a book that has lots of

pretty pictures, almost like a

Coffey table book. But cookbook is

more than a mess this, it is a

thing, living, breathing. People

don't want to cook off of a computer

screen.

What you get pages 30 with

it., that is all part of the

experience! Do

use their phones to

check a rest day, but if people

trust what they get on the internet?

I don't know. I think they trust a

book.

What would you say is

essential?

The book that inspires me

at the minute is 11 Madison, Park, a

New York restaurant, and the food is

spectacular, absolutely spectacular.

The main book that inspired me as a

young chef was a book called great

British chess and it was, each of

these of the great and the good of

the time had their own chapter, I

reckon I nicked every single recipe

from it is at the time!

Vanessa,

what about you?

I don't have a particular book that

I like, I like Mexican and Asian

style cooking so I get recipes from

that and I used to love Thomasina

Miers when she won Masterchef, I

found her quite inspiring. I get a

lot of recipe ideas from her but I'm

the same as everyone, I go online

and watch videos.

What about Delia?

Is she still relevant?

Yeah, I teach

for a living so we see a lot of

people every day and a lot of them

will say about Delia. And I would

say it is a generational thing but I

have heard that her recipes are

foolproof and I have used them

before and they do work. But Delia

is probably used to selling lots and

lots of cookbooks and I bet her

sales have dropped due to other

chefs.

You say it is a generational

thing. Is that the point that this

is maybe the last generation that

will be buying and using cookbooks

and the next generation will be

looking online, Instagram and the

rest?

I don't think so, I think the

cookbook is here to stay, it's more

than a recipe, it is a thing with

pictures, lots of the books at the

stories of the chefs and all of that

and people buy into that. It is

definitely here to stay.

I'd met I

like using a cookbook for a recipe,

but lots of Jamie Oliver in my

cupboard at home.

It is a

personality thing as well.

It is so

straightforward, a bunch of this and

a pinch of that.

Food changes the

whole time and people's perception

of it. A clever writer will come up

with what is happening next and what

people want to buy. I think people

want a cookbook that is actually

usable, that the recipes work, that

you can use everyday.

Of all the

cookbooks that you have got at home,

how many do you actually use?

I

probably use them or at work than at

home, if truth be told, where I can

get time and get a book alert --

book open and lose yourself or half

an hour or so.

I've got to ask you

because it is year flinty won the

professional Masterchef, are you

watching it?

I am and it's

brilliant.

It must be weird.

I don't

know if that's the right word but

the whole thing is pretty weird, to

be honest, but it's great to watch

it and have an understanding of how

it is made and you really feel for

the guys that are struggling.

Yeah,

the poor guy from Scotland, Richard,

went last night.

I know but you know

what? Anyone who can go on to that

show deserves credit because --

madonnas of how well they do.

You

are next, Vanessa.

I'm not doing it!

Thank you for joining us.

OK, still to come.

Ladies and gentlemen, coming Tuuli

Petaja from the SSE Hydro in

Glasgow, Scotland. -- coming to you

live.

We talk

to this guy, Joe Coffey,

and one of Scotland's top women

wrestlers ahead of their big bouts

in Glasgow this weekend.

You get it all, here!

It's one of the big days

of the year in determining how

the nation's finances are divvied

up, and how much you are taxed.

So what's in store

for next week's Budget?

We sent James Devoy to find out

what you want the money spent on.

Its budget time once again, that

time of the year when we all get

really up in arms about it and then

we'll kind of quietened down because

there's nothing we can do about it

but this one is crucial for the

Conservative Party. Theresa May's

wayward ship may be straightened,

you never know, there's a chance she

could suddenly stand tall as the

bold leadership promised to be in

the last election.

Strong and stable

leadership in this country.

To have

the strong and stable leadership.

There's a chance, but it does not

mean she is going to do it. Do you

want to talk about the budget?

Austerity? Or not?

Can I ask a silly

question but among

what is

austerity? It is the Tories policy

spending less to reduce the deficit

because that went pretty badly. For

against austerity? For it. There

should be more? Where should we be

spending the admittedly limited

money?

NHS.

People have worked all

their lives for getting a pension or

£100 a week.

What do you think

about... Sorry! What do you think

about austerity?

If you had been in

play -- Ian Paisley years ago, you'd

have seen a big difference, this

place was absolute repacked on a

Saturday, you could come in in the

morning and sent the whole day and

since they have pedestrianised it...

Nothing.

Should we give more money

to young people?

We could have a

skate park for Paisley.

This is one

of the most important but it's the

Tory government has had since it

came to power and it is certainly

Theresa May's most important but

almost no one knows who our -- and

her chancellors, not George Osborne

or Gordon Brand, I mean, I barely

know who he is and I'm holding a

picture of him so I'm going to ask

other people if they know who the

years. Do you happen to know who

this gentleman is? He's got a blue

tie on, is it a tent?

No idea.

I've

seen him on that Ali but I don't

know.

Rough guess? Rhodes something

to do the Tories? Paducah.

I can't

in his name.

Guy is?

Ether

treasurer, is he not?

Do you know

who this is? Anyone? Do you know who

this guy is? Have you ever seen him?

You could almost taste the

excitement in Paisley about the

budget. We have seen it, the look on

their little faces on Wednesday,

it's going to be a picture and I for

one can't wait. I totally can't

wait. None of this is true. It's

just a budget.

That is what you were saying to me

the other day about the budget!

That is me fully briefed for next

week. Let's move on to something

completely different.

Big Daddy, Giant Haystacks,

Hulk Hogan - all big wrestling

stars from the past.

The sport has had many different

franchises over the years,

but now there's a Scottish one,

and it's rapidly

growing in popularity.

It's called Insane

Championship Wrestling,

and its stars are set to clash

at the Hydro this weekend.

Two of them are here -

women's champion Kay Lee Ray,

and men's champion, Joe Coffey.

Welcome to you both. Joe, what is

insane about Insane Championship

Wrestling.

First of all, how are you

doing anyway? The thing that is

insane is you're bringing up the

past, like giant haystacks and Big

Daddy. I'm sorry.

You don't admire

them? Rechberger you're talking to

the year and now and the future

operational resin but what is insane

is the atmosphere that will be

happening at the Hydro and the

spectacle of a professional

wrestling match that I will be

putting on. What makes it different

from other types of wrestling for

those who don't know?

For us, it is

not just the wrestling but the

performers. We know what is on the

line, we always step up our game and

if that means we are slightly

insane, then yes, we are insane.

You

have to be slightly insane to step

through the ropes.

Tell me about the

character, you can see now.

I don't

know what you mean about character,

don't try and judge me but I in iron

king, there is no one better in the

world of professional wrestling than

the iron King, I'm the best, to be

the best, better than the rest. -- I

am the iron King. This is how it

feels to be champion. This is a bona

fides world heavyweight title. The

ICW world heavyweight title and it

is living around my waist.

And you

have done as well.

Yes, I'm the ICW

women's champion, and this has been

taken all over the world and on

Sunday, both of us will be putting

these titles on the line in one of

the biggest events in wrestling in

the UK.

It is all about you being

the bad guy, isn't it? It is all

about characters.

Come on.

Let me

show you the pictures, that looks

pretty bad to me. Tell me about your

signature move?

One of the things I

most commonly known for is just flat

up getting dropped on your face will

stop I can demonstrate if you like.

No, thank you! It does not sound

very nice. Is it painful?

I'm a bad

guy, because...

But do you get hurt?

I've spent more than a few times

with the paramedics, I've spent a

lot of time in hospital bed in my

eight years of professional

wrestling but I am the iron man, the

iron king, it does not stop me. It

is merely a formality in this game.

You just have to pick yourself back

up.

You can't afford to be out for

long.

We fight every single weekend,

there is no combat sport in the wild

like this, nothing like it, the

purist form of entertainment.

Use a

entertainment and some people look

at it and they say it is staged so

people don't get hurt and is that

true?

Well, if you think it is

staged, I would invite you to come

along and if you feel like jumping

the barrier, we could have about.

There an invitation!

I completely

agree with Joe. Come to the Hydro

and stepped in with any of us, guy

or girl.

How did you get into this?

Minds a bit of a different story

from the regular wrestler, most

people watch wrestling growing up

but I was not that into it, I had no

brothers to show me, it was when I

met my boyfriend, who is now my

fiance. He got me into it. You know

what? I was just really, really good

at it, and I decided...

You have to

be very good, to be a champion,

don't you?

You do.

What is

interesting about what you do is

that you have wrestling matches with

men sometimes?

Yes, I have been put

in with the men on many occasions

and I feel like in ICW now, maybe

the crowd think I'm a bad guy and

that plays to my advantage. But I

think it is a good thing I can step

in with any wrestler, male or

female, and I am held in the same

regard as them, regardless of

gender.

How big a deal is this now?

What kind of following have you got?

Thousands, it is global now. And the

power of social media and the

Internet, it is now global. I've got

fans stretching from Tokyo to Tampa.

It is now global and the event

itself will be available on ICW's on

demand service, similar to Netflix

or something so the next day, it

will be an for the world to see.

It

started off in a committee will in

Maryhill in 2008.

Yes.

It's got

pretty big since then but what is

your ambition? Is WWE what you are

aiming for?

I feel like I've done

very well representing myself all

over the world, and if WWE were to

offer something to me I would

happily take it and show my skills

on another level as well but right

now I think we are doing a great job

of representing everything that ICW

stands for everywhere.

Have you ever

got injured?

We all picked up

injuries all across the line. It is

a very tough sport and from the

stuff we do, we fall from ten feet

onto our soft-core, Berardo things

to be picked up along the way but I

think it makes us tough the long

run.

Mentally, as well.

When you two

were growing up and starting out,

who did you look at and admire if

not the classic British wrestlers?

Even though I discredit them, they

are part of our history but for me,

my favourite wrestler was Shawn

Michaels and Ric Flair, and guys

like Michael Hoover, who were

champions and carried themselves

champions and I pride myself on

that, that is who I look up to and

who I am looking to emulated today.

Good luck to both of you this

weekend in your respective matches

in Glasgow. Thank you for joining

us.

That's your Timeline for this week.

Thanks for watching.

Shereen will be back

with John Beattie next week

while I'm on budget duties.

But we'll leave you tonight

with a lovely choir,

made up of Ayrshire schoolchildren,

who are preparing to perform

at tomorrow's Children in Need.

Bye for now.

# Somewhere over the

rainbow

Make sure we get the M permit is

your Springwood.

It's been fun

working with Andrew because when we

get it wrong, he does not shout at

us, he just corrects us and we get

to practice to make it right.

Our

school decided to do sign language

because one of the boys has a

disability and we are trying to

teach in sign language as well.

Would you like to learn how to sign?

Seeing 100 young people all signing,

many of them for the first time was

quite an experience.

# Way up high

# There's a land that I heard

of

# Once in a lullaby