:00:12. > :00:18.Good evening. First tonight, the families who have just four weeks to
:00:19. > :00:23.find new care home places for their loved ones. Relatives were told last
:00:24. > :00:26.week that the company behind two nursing homes in Northampton has
:00:27. > :00:29.gone into administration. There are now concerns about what will happen
:00:30. > :00:35.to the elderly residents at the cedar`wood and Redruth homes if a
:00:36. > :00:59.buyer can't be found. Stuart Ratcliffe reports. Frances has been
:01:00. > :01:02.cleared for here since 2012, care that she says has been at the
:01:03. > :01:06.highest standard. From day one, I had been made to feel at hole and I
:01:07. > :01:10.have had absolutely fantasthc care. The care that I have had has been,
:01:11. > :01:15.just the slightest thing is that it has done for me, I am helped in
:01:16. > :01:18.every way that I want to be helped. And the news is that it is closing
:01:19. > :01:21.has been greeted with shock and disbelief but only by the other
:01:22. > :01:25.residents but also by their families. She's 80 years of age she
:01:26. > :01:28.knows everybody, they are lhke family and friends, and all of a
:01:29. > :01:32.sudden, you are uprooted and you have to try and settle in somewhere
:01:33. > :01:36.else. When you are older it is not the same. Across town, it is the
:01:37. > :01:39.same situation in the cedar`wood nursing home. This woman is worried
:01:40. > :01:46.about how she will find a ndw home for her husband. The nursing homes
:01:47. > :01:53.are not there for these people to go to because they need nursing 24 7,
:01:54. > :01:55.and it is just not there. The Council 's problems began when the
:01:56. > :01:58.Care Quality Commission raised concerns about the local holes,
:01:59. > :02:01.which meant that no new reshdents could be registered, meaning fewer
:02:02. > :02:04.patients, making the business unviable. Today, the administrators
:02:05. > :02:07.have said that their priority is now to make sure that the needs of the
:02:08. > :02:11.residents are prioritised and handled in the most sensitive and
:02:12. > :02:14.professional manner possibld. There is not great swathes of card home
:02:15. > :02:18.provision is out there, it hs something we are going to h`ve to
:02:19. > :02:22.manage and manage carefully and it will take a period of time to do
:02:23. > :02:39.that in a sensitive manner that we wish to follow. People need a good
:02:40. > :02:57.quality of care. If no buyer for these homes is fine, they whll close
:02:58. > :02:59.within a month. ``is found.. Earlier Ian Turner from the Registered
:03:00. > :03:04.Nursing Home Association cale into the studio. I began by asking him
:03:05. > :03:07.how difficult the situation is for both the families and residdnts It
:03:08. > :03:18.can be very damaging and upsetting to all those concerned and to the
:03:19. > :03:21.relatives, of course. For pdople who are living with in the later stages
:03:22. > :03:29.of dementia, it can be extrdmely dramatic. The long`term memory will
:03:30. > :03:32.still be the that the short`term memory will be almost nonexhstent so
:03:33. > :03:39.they will not remember wherd they actually do live so to move them
:03:40. > :03:45.into a different environment is dramatically them. How much
:03:46. > :03:50.responsibility does the loc`l authority have in finding
:03:51. > :03:53.alternative accommodation? Ly experience is that they bent over
:03:54. > :03:59.backwards to make sure everxone is placed appropriately. That `lso
:04:00. > :04:09.applies to people who are bding privately funded. What advice would
:04:10. > :04:13.you give to relatives and rdsidents? I would say tops of the loc`l
:04:14. > :04:21.authority, talk to the officers and the members and make sure that they
:04:22. > :04:39.Care Quality Commission knows their views. The decapitated body of a
:04:40. > :04:42.swan and three severed swan heads have been discovered by a l`ke in
:04:43. > :04:46.Milton Keynes. The local angling club fears it may be the result of a
:04:47. > :04:49.series of attacks carried ott by someone using a knife. The RSPCA has
:04:50. > :04:57.started an investigation. Ott by someone using a knife. The RSPCA has
:04:58. > :05:00.started an investigation. I was walking around couple of wedks ago,
:05:01. > :05:03.and this is where we found the first severed head here. That was the
:05:04. > :05:20.first four gruesome discoveries in the past month. Stephen, an officer
:05:21. > :05:23.at the angling club, has discovered three severed heads and one body.
:05:24. > :05:27.Somebody has taken the head clean off, because no animal was taken. It
:05:28. > :05:31.looks like a pure, clean cut, so I believe it has been taken for food
:05:32. > :05:35.or maybe somebody's idea of a sick joke. This is where the dec`pitated
:05:36. > :05:38.body was found, and we have been given pictures of the swans, but
:05:39. > :05:42.they are too graphic and distressing to broadcast. The RSPCA says that
:05:43. > :05:45.most cases like this are natural cause by other predators, and they
:05:46. > :05:48.confirmed that the RSPCA wotld be looking into these attacks, but
:05:49. > :05:52.until they have seen the bodies they cannot comment on the exact cause of
:05:53. > :05:54.death. The area is popular with anglers, parents and childrdn and
:05:55. > :05:58.since then, patrols have increased. You would not want any child to see
:05:59. > :06:09.it, because it would be verx distressing, like it would be for
:06:10. > :06:12.anyone. If someone actually comes across somebody doing this, what can
:06:13. > :06:20.actually happen if they are disturbed? You can see just how tame
:06:21. > :06:24.these swans are here, and it is against the law to kill or hnjure
:06:25. > :06:28.them and it carries a maximtm fine of ?5,000 and up to six months in
:06:29. > :06:31.prison. Anybody with inform`tion is asked to contact the RSPCA. The
:06:32. > :06:34.Green party has launched its campaign in the region todax, ahead
:06:35. > :06:37.of the European elections. Lembers gathered in Cambridge to reveal its
:06:38. > :06:40.manifesto. The party came close to winning a seat last time rotnd. It
:06:41. > :06:43.hopes public dissatisfaction with the main Westminster parties means
:06:44. > :06:45.it'll succeed this time. Th`t's all from the late team. Time to get the
:06:46. > :07:07.weather now with Alex Dolan. There could be some messed patches
:07:08. > :07:13.early tomorrow morning. ``some mist patches. It will be quite w`rm
:07:14. > :07:18.tomorrow with highs of 70 ddgrees at 18 degrees. Then we have a weak
:07:19. > :07:22.weather front moving in frol the west and for most of us it will not
:07:23. > :07:29.arrive till after nightfall. It will be a cloudy afternoon with patchy
:07:30. > :07:30.rain moving in from the west. On Thursday, earlier rain will clear
:07:31. > :07:39.and largely dry on is not looking too bad. That's
:07:40. > :07:43.weather front. It is never too early to think about
:07:44. > :07:49.next weekend and I will be doing that in a couple of minutes. But we
:07:50. > :07:54.have a sizeable chunk of this week's whether to go first. There
:07:55. > :07:59.are more showers, but there will be spells of warm sunshine around as
:08:00. > :08:05.well, so there will be no frost at night. Bands of showers across the
:08:06. > :08:10.western side of the UK and Scotland's passing through
:08:11. > :08:11.overnight. Another heavy burst coming into the