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And now the news for the East Midlands. I'm Jo Healey. First | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
tonight, more signs the NHS is under huge pressure from the region's | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
ageing population. The number of over`70s going to casualty by | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
ambulance in the last three years went up by 28%, to more than | :00:28. | :00:34. | |
120,000. The number of over`90s rose by 56%. Here's our health | :00:35. | :00:49. | |
correspondent, Rob Sissons. More of us, like Walter, are living longer. | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
He is 92, a retired miner who suffers chronic breathing problems. | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
It has been an anxious week for his family. He was rushed to hospital | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
with a bad chest infection. When I came here, I was on a point of | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
hitting the buffers, you might say, collapsing in a bad way. I am better | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
now, but what I have got is what will be a | :01:11. | :01:21. | |
lasting problem. At Nottingham's medical centre, the number of | :01:22. | :01:23. | |
patients being brought in by ambulance aged over 70 has gone up | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
by a third in three years. The unit was not designed for this number. | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
The head of the department says more investment in social care is needed. | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
We have less community beds available, so we 0 | :01:37. | :01:37. | |
We have less community beds available, so we have to discharge a | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
patient if we think we can discharge that person, but community bed | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
availability is less than it needs to be, so we find it harder to | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
discharge that patient and carry on the care package. In the control | :01:48. | :01:56. | |
room at East Midlands Ambulance Service, they handle more calls each | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
year involving the frail and elderly. Many can be time`consuming | :02:00. | :02:08. | |
and complex to sort out. They require patience and careful | :02:09. | :02:10. | |
handling by paramedic staff, sometimes using specialist | :02:11. | :02:12. | |
equipment, which many ambulances now carry with them. Preventing more | :02:13. | :02:19. | |
elderly people going into accident and emergency is one of the biggest | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
challenges as an ageing population is expected to get larger. | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
Next, there's hope for people looking for work in the building | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
industry, with predictions of up to 10,000 new jobs in the region's | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
construction sector in the next five years. Experts point to a rise in | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
the number of private homes now being built. Building a stronger | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
economy. That is the hope and the forecast from the construction | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
industry training board. Building work last year was worth around ?7 | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
billion to the East Midlands economy and the board believes that will | :02:55. | :03:05. | |
grow. It says its research shows the construction of private homes here | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
will go up by 4% a year between now and 2018, and work on public sector | :03:10. | :03:16. | |
housing by 1.5%. That should mean more jobs. We are talking about just | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
under 10,000 jobs, sustainable opportunities over the next four to | :03:22. | :03:28. | |
five years. That is hugely encouraging for the sector and our | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
local employers. It will offer opportunities, employment, skills to | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
the local community and the region as a whole. Plans on paper from | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
developers are more often being turned into successful schemes on | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
the ground. The sites we are standing at today are not short`term | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
projects. They are going well onto 2017. This is sustained employment | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
for the operatives, staff and local people we engage with. But business | :03:50. | :03:56. | |
leaders say keeping hold of these long`term projects won't be enough | :03:57. | :04:03. | |
itself. `` by itself. In terms of construction itself, that is not | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
sustainable. It has to be a much broader based recovery in all | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
sectors, especially sectors like ourselves, high`value manufacturers | :04:11. | :04:12. | |
and exporters to generate the wealth that leads to house building. | :04:13. | :04:22. | |
A housing association has apologised to a 67`year`old pensioner from | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
Derbyshire who has been living with a flooded kitchen for a fortnight. A | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
pipe above John Fowkes' flat in Ripley leaked, putting his kitchen | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
out of action. He's had to empty buckets of water every two hours and | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
cook on his lounge floor. Today, work to mend it began, and | :04:41. | :04:42. | |
Metropolitan, the housing association responsible, said all | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
repairs will be completed in the next week. John is a vulnerable | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
adult and the last thing he needs is this level of anxiety. This is | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
supposed to be a safe environment for him. He has been left in this | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
state for 15 days. In sport, The Queen's Baton Relay is | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
to visit the East Midlands on its way to Glasgow for the Commonwealth | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
Games. It will visit Leicester on June 10th as part of a two`week tour | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
of England. Local people will be chosen to be baton bearers. And the | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
city centre will give locals and visitors a chance to try out some of | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
the sports that will be on show at the Games. Earlier, I got reaction | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
from councillor Piara Singh Clair, the assistant city mayor for | :05:28. | :05:36. | |
Leicester. I am really excited. Really delighted that Leicester has | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
been chosen to host the Queen's Batten relay for the Commonwealth | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
Games, which are due to be hosted in Glasgow this July. What will it mean | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
for the city? I think it means a lot. We have a lot of experience in | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
hand to deliver those big events, and it will offer us a chance to | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
lend our support behind the England team. Do you think it will be as big | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
a success as the torch relay, which was phenomenal? Of course it will | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
be, and we have lined up the programme that will be shortly | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
announced. It will be a great success in the city centre and in | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
different parts of the community. Thank you very much for joining us. | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
Let's see what the weather's up to now. | :06:27. | :06:28. | |
Let's see what the weather's up to We have had a mild winter so far but | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
tomorrow it will feel a little colder. It won't be blue skies and | :06:33. | :06:39. | |
sunshine, instead we keep hold off the cloud and we can expect a | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
scattering of showers. It's a cloudy story out there at the moment, we | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
will have showers tonight turning wintry across higher ground | :06:49. | :06:50. | |
especially into North Nottinghamshire and the Peak | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
District. We have a risk of rice on untreated services, where the | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
temperatures will be falling below freezing, but for the rest of us | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
looks like a frost free night. It's chilly start to Thursday, rain | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
pushing its way in, light and patchy throughout the day the little wintry | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
in higher ground, feeling cold with that easterly wind and looking at | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
highs of five degrees tomorrow and then wet and windy on Friday. | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
Newsnight's starting over on BBC Two now. We're back with more in the | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
morning, starting just before 6:30am, but from all of us here on | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
the late team, have a very good night. | :07:30. | :07:38. | |
Hello. The next dose of wet and windy weather is due to arrive on | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
Friday from the Atlantic. Today we have had an easterly wind bringing | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
the chill as the threat of icy patches comes to the north where the | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
cloud breaks. More cloud further south. Maybe some sleet and snow in | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
parts of East Wales as we engage the cold air. Temperatures in the | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
south-east are not changing much because the rain keeps going. It | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
will be colder further north, though. Icy patches are possible. | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
More wintry showers in the north-east. Quite a few flood | :08:11. | :08:12. | |
warnings in Tayside. Write to the west of the Pennines. -- brighter. | :08:13. | :08:21. | |
Figure clad -- thicker cloud further south. We see some dampness in parts | :08:22. | :08:28. | |
of the West Country, possibly into East Wales. In the north-west of | :08:29. | :08:36. | |
Wales is the cloud breaks, temperatures will be close to. Not | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
as cold as that in Northern | :08:40. | :08:41. |