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New figures reveal the worst ever waiting times in A | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Record numbers waited more than four hours in December. | :00:07. | :00:13. | |
Figures leaked to the BBC show January was even worse. | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
It's not acceptable and it's not what we want. | :00:18. | :00:19. | |
We have planned more this winter than ever before and that planning | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
Most hospitals have managed to cope but, some places | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
We'll be looking at the difficulties in A here and how they do things | :00:27. | :00:33. | |
The government denies abandoning the vulnerable after it stops | :00:34. | :00:39. | |
a scheme allowing unaccompanied children into the UK. | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
I don't really want to keep complaining because he might end up | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
going to me, "if you keep complaining, out you go". | :00:48. | :00:49. | |
Claims a new law to stop so-called revenge evictions by private | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
No career bounce for a generation of young men - | :00:53. | :00:59. | |
they're likely to earn less than their dads. | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
And from sprinting in Rio, to learning to walk in rehab. | :01:04. | :01:05. | |
The team GB athlete injured in a road accident, determined | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
And coming up in the sport, on BBC News: | :01:09. | :01:17. | |
Why its looking like good news for Wales ahead of their Six Nations | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
clash against England on Saturday, with North and Biggar | :01:21. | :01:22. | |
Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. | :01:23. | :01:47. | |
Record numbers of patients waited for more than four hours in accident | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
and emergency departments in England in December - that's according | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
Only 86% met the NHS target of being seen in four hours or less. | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
And figures leaked to the BBC suggest it was even worse | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
in January, just 82%, the worst-performing month for A | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
The BMA says the prime minister can no longer bury her head in the sand | :02:08. | :02:14. | |
about the increasing pressure on the NHS. | :02:15. | :02:16. | |
The government says the vast majority of patients are seen | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
This report from our Health Editor Hugh Pym. | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
Scenes like this on BBC News this week have highlighted the immense | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
strains being felt right across the NHS. | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
Here at Royal Blackburn Hospital, rated as good by inspectors, | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
some patients waited up to 13 hours in A | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
The latest official figures confirmed it was the worst for waits | :02:39. | :02:45. | |
Today at Hillingdon Hospital in west London, things were a bit calmer, | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
but managers confirm that they have been stretched to the limit. | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
It's been fairly relentless in terms of early December through January. | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
I'm confident that the safety of our patients is being maintained | :02:59. | :03:00. | |
at a high quality, but it's really not a great patient experience | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
for many of our patients using our services and that is what the staff | :03:05. | :03:12. | |
In December in England, 6.2% of patients were treated | :03:13. | :03:19. | |
or assessed in A within 24 hours, the lowest since | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
That was below Scotland, where 92.6% of patients were dealt | :03:23. | :03:29. | |
In Wales, the figure was 81% and the percentage | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
in Northern Ireland was just under 70%, all below the 95% benchmark. | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
In England, the number of patients stuck on trolleys or chairs for more | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
than four hours before a bed could be found was nearly 61,800, | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
It has been a steep climb this year but the thing that has changed | :03:46. | :03:55. | |
the most has been not the 2% or 3% increase in demand but it is the 40% | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
increase in delays moving patients, helping them to get back | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
to their homes and back into the community. | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
Many hospitals like this one are running at 95% capacity. | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
That means they are nearly full, so with more emergency cases coming | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
in, and difficulties discharging some patients back into | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
the community, some of those needing surgery are having to wait longer. | :04:17. | :04:24. | |
Even cancer patients like Martin are affected by delays. | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
Until this year, that has been very rare as hospitals prioritise cancer | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
treatment even during the busiest weeks of winter. | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
His operation was cancelled minutes before it was due to take place. | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
He has now had the surgery and he says it was a | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
Very anxious to go through all that again, | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
Your mind is going overtime, it really is. | :04:48. | :04:58. | |
December's A performance figures in England were poor but NHS | :04:59. | :05:05. | |
documents leaked to the BBC suggest they were even worse in January. | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
It's clear that hospital staff are working at full stretch. | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
Winter is far from over and the intense pressure seems | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
Let's talk to our health correspondent Dominic Hughes | :05:17. | :05:25. | |
We've been running stories all week about the strain on the NHS | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
and the difficulties for patients and staff, is there any light | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
at the end of the tunnel, any sign things will improve? | :05:34. | :05:42. | |
That's right. At the Rochdale infirmary they have set up an urgent | :05:43. | :05:49. | |
care centre to offer the people of Rochdale an alternative to going to | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
A, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The work they do in the | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
community is to avoid unnecessary admissions. But that is far from | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
true across the country. We have been hearing, as we head towards | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
summer and spring, are we likely to see any relief in the pressures on | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
A, not if last summer is anything to go by. Those pressures seem to be | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
existing 12 months a year across the health and social care system. We | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
have had a growing number of calls from the Doctor's union and the | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
Royal colleges of medicine, from the Local Government Association, for | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
extra funds to try and address the growing difficulties that are being | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
experienced across the health and care sector. But there is little | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
sign ministers in England, at least, are being swayed by those growing | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
difficulties. Back to you. Dominic, thank you. | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
An independent report has concluded unsafe construction at schools | :06:53. | :06:54. | |
in Edinburgh was the fault of the council and the | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
It says it was just luck that no one was killed when a wall at one | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
primary school collapsed just over a year ago. | :07:02. | :07:03. | |
It was one of 17 schools which were then closed after safety | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
concerns and over 8000 pupils were affected. | :07:07. | :07:08. | |
Spread across an entire city, 17 schools closed for months, | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
Nine tonnes of masonry blown to the ground at Oxgangs Primary, | :07:12. | :07:21. | |
a question of timing and luck that no one was killed. | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
The bad memory is fading for the Mackle family, | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
It's a lot quieter in the playground than it used to be. | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
You have faith that people who are building public | :07:39. | :07:40. | |
buildings are doing it to an acceptable standard. | :07:41. | :07:42. | |
You know, when I'm asked the question, is this building safe. | :07:43. | :07:50. | |
Explaining why thousands of pupils were disrupted for months has been | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
Its conclusions, safety failings weren't the result of how | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
the buildings were financed, but instead, poor | :08:01. | :08:02. | |
Crucial materials were poorly-fitted or missing, | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
and the problems were much wider than one rogue bricklayer. | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
It was also a failure of inspection and oversight. | :08:13. | :08:14. | |
When this school was being built, one of the architects raised | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
concerns with the contractor about the way the walls | :08:19. | :08:20. | |
He told the enquiry those concerns were ignored, | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
and they were powerless to do anything about it. | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
The fact that there were different contractors, | :08:29. | :08:30. | |
different subcontractors, and the same faults turned up | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
in the schools and in other schools in Scotland, | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
where we found five walls collapse in the last four years. | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
It says that this is something which isn't just here | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
Inspections of all types of public building are underway | :08:44. | :08:51. | |
The question posed, should others be doing the same? | :08:52. | :08:59. | |
The government has insisted it's not abandoning vulnerable refugees, | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
despite a decision to wind up a scheme allowing unaccompanied | :09:05. | :09:06. | |
350 young people, mostly from Syria, have been offered sanctuary | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
The Home Secretary Amber Rudd said the programme risked | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
encouraging people traffickers, and that it would be | :09:16. | :09:17. | |
Here's our Home Affairs Correspondent Daniel Sandford. | :09:18. | :09:29. | |
Stranded at a hospital in Athens, this man is an Afghan refugee, 17 | :09:30. | :09:38. | |
years old. Without any other family, he wants to come to Britain and was | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
being helped by the charity, Safe Passage. But now the government says | :09:43. | :09:53. | |
the charity will only take 150 more. It is really hard for me to achieve | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
my aims, to achieve my goals. Because here, there isn't a perfect | :09:58. | :10:05. | |
school or perfect college for the refugees. 200 boys and girls were | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
brought to England... It was the transport of the 1930s but saved | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
thousands of Jewish children from the Nazis, that inspired the | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
government to take in more of the day's child refugees from Europe. I | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
am a refugee and I came to England at the age of six. Among those saved | :10:25. | :10:31. | |
in the 30s was Lord dubs, who pushed to get the law amended. Today he | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
told me the government had broken its promises. When something calls | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
for humanitarian action, and when, as I believe, the majority of people | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
support the humanitarian action, the government have behaved shamefully | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
by saying we don't want any more. It is disappointing and I don't think | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
they should have done it. Those who want to help more child refugees, | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
including the Archbishop of Canterbury, said the government was | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
going back on commitments it made last year. But ministers say, | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
there's no point in inviting thousands of children here, if the | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
local councils, who will have to look after them, cannot cope. These | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
are children who need looking after over a period. When we access them, | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
it is not job done, it is making sure we work with local authorities, | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
that we have the right safeguarding in place and that is why we engage | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
with the local authorities. But the Home Secretary was warned that if | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
the refugee children are not helped now, they will try to make their own | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
way to Britain. They are heading back to Calais, back to Dunkirk, | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
back to the danger and in the arms of the people traffickers and the | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
smugglers, the exploitation, abuse and prostitution rings and back into | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
the modern slavery that this Parliament and this government has | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
pledged to end. There are tens of thousands of refugee children in | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
limbo in Europe, but the government prefers its other schemes for | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
settling vulnerable refugees from the camps nearest to Syria. | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
Four men convicted of sexually abusing young teenage girls | :12:10. | :12:12. | |
in Rochdale are facing deportation to Pakistan. | :12:13. | :12:14. | |
The men, who were part of a child grooming ring in the town, | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
An immigration tribunal upheld the government's decision to strip | :12:19. | :12:21. | |
But the four men can still appeal against the decision. | :12:22. | :12:28. | |
Private tenants in England are being unfairly evicted | :12:29. | :12:30. | |
from their homes and now some leading MPs are also claiming | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
a new law to protect them isn't working. | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
The law was introduced to stop so-called revenge evictions, | :12:38. | :12:39. | |
people being thrown out because they'd complained about | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
In response to a Freedom of Information request to hundreds | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
55% said they had stopped no such evictions. | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
26% recorded no figures on the problem. | :12:53. | :12:54. | |
Radio 1's Newsbeat reporter Dan Whitworth has more details. | :12:55. | :13:08. | |
Damp, mould, faulty electrics and broken windows and boilers that | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
don't get fixed when it's cold. They are classed as category one hazards, | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
in other words, they are so bad, they pose a risk to health. They are | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
things that Leeds City Council housing inspectors that are all too | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
familiar with. This is private rented accommodation? People paying | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
to rents, making complaints and nothing happening and they could be | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
under revenge eviction is? That is why they are not coming forward to | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
make a complaint. He is talking about people like 27-year-old lives. | :13:43. | :13:50. | |
Lights not working? The whole wall is full of damp. This whole area is | :13:51. | :14:00. | |
damp. It is the whole wall. When I came here, I didn't want to move in, | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
because I saw the state of the front door. I don't want to keep on | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
complaining, because he might say to me, out you go. What are you worried | :14:10. | :14:16. | |
about? Being on the street. You are worried about being on the street? | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
Yes, I have been on the streets and it is not nice. I am going to start | :14:22. | :14:28. | |
crying... Sorry. He is horrible. Sorry. It's all right. So that is | :14:29. | :14:37. | |
obviously why you don't want to complain too much, because that is | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
the only option to you? Government figures suggest around 1 million | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
Private rented properties in England, don't meet its own decent | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
homes standard. This is the kitchen. What is that? MPs who help hold the | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
government to account, same rogue landlords are avoiding their | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
responsibilities. Is this law working? Clearly not. I cannot | :15:03. | :15:05. | |
believe there are that number of authorities where no one has been | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
the subject to a revenge eviction. The government says revenge | :15:11. | :15:13. | |
evictions are red, and thanks to its new law, councils have all the | :15:14. | :15:15. | |
powers they need to stop them. Record numbers of patients | :15:16. | :15:22. | |
waited more than four hours in A Coming up, I am alive at FA | :15:23. | :15:36. | |
headquarters at Wembley as more pressure is applied to the National | :15:37. | :15:37. | |
sports governing body, a year to go until the winter | :15:38. | :15:49. | |
Olympics starts in North Korea, we bore me the stars that hope to make | :15:50. | :15:52. | |
it a best ever Winter games for Team GB. | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
More now on the pressures on the NHS, and the possible | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
long term solutions to its seemingly | :16:02. | :16:02. | |
There have been many calls this week for the government to give it more | :16:03. | :16:09. | |
money and match the funding in some other European countries. | :16:10. | :16:11. | |
Branwen Jeffreys has been to Germany where spending on health | :16:12. | :16:14. | |
is the highest in Europe, to look at the strengths | :16:15. | :16:17. | |
Doctors on the walk round, they never worry | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
Germany has almost three times as many as the UK. | :16:25. | :16:32. | |
One day after the operation, I can walk... | :16:33. | :16:34. | |
For George, that means almost no waiting. | :16:35. | :16:37. | |
In England, patients wait several months. | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
For George, it's been just a few weeks since the decision was made. | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
The doctor said to me, I have to decide when I want | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
Normally, it takes three or four weeks | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
All of this paid for by health insurance, | :16:55. | :17:09. | |
14% of George's salary, split between him and his employer. | :17:10. | :17:11. | |
Germany's health system is convenient but expensive. | :17:12. | :17:21. | |
And that worries doctors, so in order to save money | :17:22. | :17:23. | |
in the long term, they are putting more effort now and more time | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
with patients into convincing them to stay healthy. | :17:27. | :17:29. | |
It's a lot of time to convince him, to try another way, but it would be | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
better to lose ten kilograms of weight to solve the problem | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
with his diabetes and hypothalamus instead of taking pills. | :17:38. | :17:40. | |
You have the time now under this system? Yeah. | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
Doctors here in the Black Forest have been given a financial | :17:45. | :17:47. | |
incentive to make patients healthier overall by joining up care. | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
Many parts of the NHS are trying to do the same. | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
Here, there are cheaper gym sessions, cooking lessons, | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
a music group, it's subsidised by health insurance | :18:02. | :18:03. | |
As a result, they're spending 6% less on looking after patients. | :18:04. | :18:10. | |
So I asked the health manager running it all, | :18:11. | :18:12. | |
why isn't the rest of Germany worried about cost? | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
Yeah, the economy runs so well in Germany, so the social health | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
institutions and insurance firms have no problems. | :18:22. | :18:24. | |
But everybody knows it's just a question of time. | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
It may result in five years, or it may result in 8-10 years, | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
The rolling countryside of Thuringia, hundreds of miles | :18:37. | :18:43. | |
north-east of the Black Forest, villages where there are more | :18:44. | :18:46. | |
There is more money in the German system, but that doesn't mean | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
Here in what they call Germany's Green Heart, | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
they have a terrible shortage of GPs, and it's because of that | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
that they're finally to begin to really change the way they work. | :19:03. | :19:09. | |
Many doctors still work alone in Germany, but here, | :19:10. | :19:11. | |
Doctors simply can't meet all the needs of their ageing patients. | :19:12. | :19:24. | |
We don't have relatives, and the doctors have to make home | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
visits, and there is often not enough time in the do that. | :19:28. | :19:34. | |
That's why we were able a few years ago to make home visits. | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
A visit from the nurse keeps these older patients well. | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
Germany's population is one of the fastest ageing in the world. | :19:43. | :19:48. | |
They have the money now to make the changes needed in the future. | :19:49. | :19:51. | |
Branwen Jeffreys, BBC News, Thuringia. | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
There's more pressure on the Football Association tonight | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
They've passed a motion of no confidence in its leadership | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
and have called on parliament to step in and reform | :20:04. | :20:05. | |
Our Sports Editor Dan Roan is at Wembley for us. | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
Now we've had this vote at Westminster, what happens now? | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
Today's debate may have been attended by fewer MPs than are | :20:17. | :20:24. | |
needed for a full-scale match, but it represents a ramping up of | :20:25. | :20:27. | |
pressure on the National sports governing body. It comes after years | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
of frustration from the critics for what is a slow pace of process, when | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
it comes to governance reforms, many are upset by the lack of diversity | :20:36. | :20:42. | |
and independence. They are worried about a perceived dominance by the | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
Premier League, its wealth and power, following various footballing | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
failings by the England team, but off field scandals and mishaps as | :20:51. | :20:58. | |
well. The past represents the beginning of a lobbying process | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
which could lead in footballing terms to the nuclear option, actual | :21:02. | :21:03. | |
legislation, forcing the FA to act. We believe now that | :21:04. | :21:05. | |
legislation is the only way That was the recommendation | :21:06. | :21:07. | |
of the last three chairman of the FA to the Select Committee | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
to save the FA Cup reform itself, the turkeys won't vote | :21:13. | :21:15. | |
for Christmas, there has to be external pressure and external | :21:16. | :21:18. | |
action on legislation to achieve it. The government says it is prepared | :21:19. | :21:28. | |
to legislate if its tactic of threatening funding cuts to the FA, | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
if they don't reform by the end of March, doesn't work. The FHM and | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
Greg Clarke says he will step down if he fails to convince government | :21:38. | :21:40. | |
and his own councillors to change. It doesn't have any clout, today's | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
vote, but it does represent another attack on the FA. | :21:47. | :21:49. | |
If you're a man, and you were born after 1980, | :21:50. | :21:52. | |
you'll be lucky to earn as much as your dad. | :21:53. | :21:54. | |
That's according to new research that suggests so-called | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
'Millennial men' will earn a total of ?12,500 less than | :21:59. | :22:00. | |
their fathers by the time they reached 30. | :22:01. | :22:02. | |
Women, by contrast, have moved into higher paying roles. | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
Our correspondent Duncan Kennedy has the details. | :22:06. | :22:12. | |
Question, how do you put a spring into the step of a generation that | :22:13. | :22:19. | |
supposedly has it all? Except the jobs and wages enjoyed by their | :22:20. | :22:26. | |
parents. These are the so-called millennial 's, born between 1981 and | :22:27. | :22:34. | |
2000, whose ups have apparently outnumbered the Downs. Four young | :22:35. | :22:37. | |
men especially, the truth is, they are the first to fall behind the | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
previous generation. Take match, he is 24, and 19-year-old Ben. They | :22:44. | :22:49. | |
have found rewarding jobs with Oxygen, but admit they can't match | :22:50. | :22:52. | |
their parents. My dad managed to get himself a well | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
earned job, and he has been in it his whole life, whereas I have had | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
to go through 4-5 job is to get a job that I am happy with. | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
I think it is something that needs to be looked into. It is harder for | :23:06. | :23:11. | |
us if we want to aspire to and be as successful as our parents, it sets | :23:12. | :23:13. | |
us off on a slow start. To give you an idea of how tough it | :23:14. | :23:19. | |
is, take a look at this. There has been a 40% decrease in young men | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
working in manufacturing, 45% rise in the number of young men working | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
in low paid jobs like retail. Overall, they have learned something | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
like ?12,000 less from the generation that came before them. It | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
is the disappearance of high skill, high paid jobs of the past that have | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
driven these changes. The report today says women have bucked the | :23:45. | :23:47. | |
trend, moving into better jobs. But what about the parents of millennial | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
men? Should young men be earning more than their parents? | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
In this day and age, you would have thought so, really. Yeah. It is | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
opposed to get better. Everybody expects kids to do better | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
than the previous generation, don't they? | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
Many believe today's young people are over rewarded in life, but it | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
seems millennial can sometimes mean minimal. | :24:16. | :24:22. | |
They're two of Britain's best sprinters - James Ellington, | :24:23. | :24:25. | |
a two-time Olympian - and Nigel Levine, a 400m specialist | :24:26. | :24:27. | |
But last month, they were involved in a road accident, | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
their injuries were described as 'career threatening'. | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
They're now back in the UK, receiving treatment, | :24:38. | :24:39. | |
and one of them, James Ellington, has been speaking | :24:40. | :24:41. | |
James Ellington is one of Britain's's finest sprinters, | :24:42. | :24:48. | |
but today he's learning to walk again. | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
Three weeks ago, Ellington was involved in a head on collision | :24:54. | :24:56. | |
as a passenger on a motorbike during a training camp in Tenerife. | :24:57. | :25:05. | |
When I was on the floor, and there was blood everywhere, | :25:06. | :25:08. | |
I looked at my leg, and my leg was in pieces. | :25:09. | :25:10. | |
I lost six pints of blood, so I was laying there thinking | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
to myself, what the hell is going on? | :25:16. | :25:17. | |
This was the x-ray of his right tibia... | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
Ellington's surgeon described the injury is as career threatening. | :25:23. | :25:25. | |
He suffered an open fracture of his right leg, a broken left | :25:26. | :25:28. | |
ankle and damage to his pelvis, and an eye socket. | :25:29. | :25:35. | |
The crash was so horrific, I don't most people would've | :25:36. | :25:37. | |
When I was laying in a hospital bed in Tenerife, and I see my team-mates | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
come to visit me and stuff, they looked pretty emotional. | :25:43. | :25:44. | |
Because I knew that I was lucky to be alive. | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
2016 was Ellington's best year to date. | :25:50. | :25:52. | |
He competed against the likes of Usain Bolt at the Rio Olympics. | :25:53. | :25:55. | |
Four years earlier, he auctioned himself on eBay | :25:56. | :25:57. | |
just to fund his journey to the London games. | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
Ellington will need all that determination and more if he's | :26:02. | :26:04. | |
to complete what would be incredible return to the track. | :26:05. | :26:07. | |
What is your outlook for your future as a sprinter? | :26:08. | :26:14. | |
Being an athlete and a determined person, I think this | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
is going to be something that I will want to come back from. | :26:19. | :26:21. | |
Imagine that, being on the track after what you have been through. | :26:22. | :26:24. | |
I know, I know, it's crazy. But I believe I can do it. | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
That belief is familiar to Ellington, but success now | :26:29. | :26:31. | |
has a new perspective. David Ornstein, BBC News. | :26:32. | :26:38. | |
Yesterday it was lovely to the west. 11 degrees with sunshine almost | :26:39. | :26:55. | |
feeling like spring. Today, the cold air that has been sitting across the | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
East Coast has seeped west. More cloud and disappointing in west | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
Wales, a high of four through the afternoon. We will keep the cold | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
field tonight, and easterly breeze with the potential to drive in more | :27:10. | :27:16. | |
showers. It will only be a cold one as well with temperatures falling | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
below freezing in more rules spots. Tomorrow, we start with the risk of | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
showers, maybe icy surfaces first thing in the morning. The best | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
brightness in western areas, but you will be lucky if you see that much | :27:30. | :27:34. | |
sunshine, maybe across the Cornish foot, Pembrokeshire with sunshine, | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
but not one, 4-5 at the best. Yet again, across the Norfolk coast, | :27:40. | :27:42. | |
temperatures will struggle around one degree. Add on the wind, not | :27:43. | :27:47. | |
very pleasant. In Northern Ireland, the Lake District and into Scotland, | :27:48. | :27:54. | |
not too bad, sunshine but with showers across the Northern Isles in | :27:55. | :28:02. | |
cabin seem -- Aberdeenshire. -10 in northern Scotland, and towards the | :28:03. | :28:06. | |
night, more enhanced showers of snow. If few centimetres to higher | :28:07. | :28:12. | |
ground, a heavy dusting in lower levels on Saturday morning, don't | :28:13. | :28:16. | |
get too excited, kids, the snow showers turned to rain as we go | :28:17. | :28:20. | |
through the day on Saturday. It will be a cloudy and cold day in | :28:21. | :28:25. | |
north-west Scotland and Northern Ireland. Fancy a change for Sunday? | :28:26. | :28:30. | |
Think again, I'm afraid. Cloud and grey, still disappointingly cold. | :28:31. | :28:31. | |
Don't shoot the messenger. New figures reveal the worst waiting | :28:32. | :28:45. | |
times in ten two departments in England. | :28:46. | :28:46. | |
That's all from the BBC News at Six, so it's goodbye from me. | :28:47. | :28:49. | |
And on BBC One, we now join the BBC's news teams where you are. | :28:50. | :28:50. |