:00:00. > :00:00.In Look East tonight: A crisis in urgent care centres as increasing
:00:00. > :00:13.numbers of patients are turning up who could be seen at a pharmacy.
:00:14. > :00:17.You see a few, and few boot in, so we never get the chance to catch up.
:00:18. > :00:20.Keeping them flying for 50 years, the local engineering firm doing
:00:21. > :00:29.And I'll have your weather for the week ahead including the Christmas
:00:30. > :00:33.forecast. Urgent care centres in our region -
:00:34. > :00:38.set up to alleviate pressure on hospital A departments -
:00:39. > :00:44.are now at capacity themselves. One clinic is seeing almost double
:00:45. > :00:47.the number of patients And this at the start
:00:48. > :00:51.of the NHS's busiest period. Our reporter Mousumi Bakshi spent
:00:52. > :00:57.the day at Corby urgent care centre. Fuller waiting rooms
:00:58. > :00:59.and longer waiting times - if there is a sign of it crisis
:01:00. > :01:07.in care, this is surely it. A service established to alleviate
:01:08. > :01:10.pressure on A succumbing Patient demand is at an all-time
:01:11. > :01:13.high here and shows no The number of patients we should be
:01:14. > :01:22.seeing is about 147 patients a day. And that increase has been a steady
:01:23. > :01:30.rise over a long period of time It is not unusual for us to see
:01:31. > :01:39.240 patients in a day. Opened in 2012, the centre
:01:40. > :01:41.was championed as an alternative to A, where urgent but not
:01:42. > :01:44.cricitcal conditions like fractures David has come in after
:01:45. > :01:50.suffering a stroke. I felt it was important I come
:01:51. > :02:03.and get this checked out. Hopefully I will not take too much
:02:04. > :02:07.of their time up and they won't take I have had a cough for a week
:02:08. > :02:12.and I have already seen someone. I thought I had better have
:02:13. > :02:16.another checkup before Christmas as everywhere
:02:17. > :02:23.will probably be close. The centre opened at 8:00 this
:02:24. > :02:27.morning and by 2:30, During that time, a number
:02:28. > :02:35.of patients had to be diverted to Kettering General,
:02:36. > :02:37.such was the backlog. Sometimes it is impossible to go
:02:38. > :02:42.for lunch at one or two. The reason you end up going so late
:02:43. > :02:51.is because you are trying You try to get them through,
:02:52. > :02:59.but sometimes, by the time you see a few, another few book in,
:03:00. > :03:01.so you never get Health bosses admit that pressure
:03:02. > :03:13.is unlikely to ease in the run-up We have been in touch with hospitals
:03:14. > :03:18.across the region to see Northampton General told us
:03:19. > :03:21.they were experiencing sustained, intense pressure with a lack
:03:22. > :03:24.of available beds tied with the rising number
:03:25. > :03:26.of people going to A As a result, some nonurgent
:03:27. > :03:29.operations have had to be cancelled, They've told us at any given time
:03:30. > :03:38.that about 100 people deemed medically fit
:03:39. > :03:41.to leave hospital can't. The so-called "bed blockers",
:03:42. > :03:43.because they are awaiting On top of that, Northampton General
:03:44. > :03:52.have told us that is on average about 70 people who come to A
:03:53. > :03:56.to seek treatment could have got it The picture is similar
:03:57. > :03:59.at Addenbrooke's in Cambridge, they say on average 15% of patients
:04:00. > :04:05.could have been seen elsewhere. A 78-year-old coach driver
:04:06. > :04:11.who crashed into a stationary car on the M1 in Bedfordshire killing
:04:12. > :04:13.three people has been Alan Peters was driving his double
:04:14. > :04:20.decker coach on the hard shoulder of the motorway despite overhead
:04:21. > :04:23.signs telling motorists not to use Two of the three men who died
:04:24. > :04:28.were from Newport Pagnell. The judge said Peters was in "state
:04:29. > :04:39.of semi-consciousness" at the time. An inquest has heard how a junior
:04:40. > :04:41.doctor from Melbourne took her own life after having
:04:42. > :04:43.doubts about her job. Rose Polge, who was 25,
:04:44. > :04:46.is believed to have walked into the sea after leaving a shift
:04:47. > :04:49.early at Torbay Hospital in Devon. She had earlier told her
:04:50. > :04:51.boyfriend she was struggling Following the inquest
:04:52. > :04:54.into her death today, her family pointed to increasingly
:04:55. > :04:56.heavy workloads on young medics and called for something to be done
:04:57. > :04:59.to ease the crisis in morale Workers at the Northamptonshire
:05:00. > :05:05.based cereal company Weetabix The union, Usdaw, said staff
:05:06. > :05:12.at the sites in Burton Latimer and Corby voted for action
:05:13. > :05:15.after a row over shift patterns. Each strike will run for 24 hours,
:05:16. > :05:18.with no more than one Another prisoner has died
:05:19. > :05:21.at Woodhill prison in Milton Keynes. It brings the number of prisoners
:05:22. > :05:24.who've taken their lives Our reporter Waseem Mirza has been
:05:25. > :05:29.looking at this and is here now. Well, Clare, this latest incident
:05:30. > :05:35.happened last Sunday. There will be in inquest
:05:36. > :05:39.opening in the morning But nevertheless, as you say,
:05:40. > :05:48.this latest death, if confirmed as a suicide, would bring the total
:05:49. > :05:51.to seven prisoners who've ended That means it's a high-security
:05:52. > :05:59.jail, which can Two years ago, an inspector's report
:06:00. > :06:05.described the number of incidents as "very high" and said the prison
:06:06. > :06:09.response to the deaths The Ministry of Justice has tonight
:06:10. > :06:14.told us it recognises It's "invested in specialist mental
:06:15. > :06:18.health training for prison officers, allocated more funding for prison
:06:19. > :06:23.safety" and says it's also launched a suicide
:06:24. > :06:27.and self-harm reduction project. But the Howard League
:06:28. > :06:29.for Penal Reform has told me just a short time ago that the prison
:06:30. > :06:32.population at Woodhill is They say they want the Government
:06:33. > :06:38.to "grasp the nettle" and rethink the numbers of prisoners
:06:39. > :06:40.going to jail. The Prison Officers Association
:06:41. > :06:42.meanwhile say there's a direct link between high suicide rates
:06:43. > :06:47.and low staffing. And we'll have more coverage
:06:48. > :06:50.on the story tomorrow when the inquest into the latest
:06:51. > :06:57.death at Woodhill begins tomorrow. 50 years ago today an RAF Hercules
:06:58. > :07:00.transport plane flew into Cambridge Airport,
:07:01. > :07:02.to be serviced by the engineering It was the beginning of a long
:07:03. > :07:06.business relationship with the RAF that's now worth more than a quarter
:07:07. > :07:13.of a billion pounds. But as Alex Dunlop reports,
:07:14. > :07:15.the anniversary fly past was somewhat thwarted
:07:16. > :07:18.by the December weather. Like a bridesmaid running up
:07:19. > :07:22.the aisle before a wedding, an American Osprey flies past
:07:23. > :07:24.the expectant crowd The VIPs collect on a balcony
:07:25. > :07:30.to watch four C130 Hercules Sadly, the clouds descended even
:07:31. > :07:37.lower, but at least we heard But in the best tradition,
:07:38. > :07:45.here is one that Marshall prepared Similar foggy weather,
:07:46. > :07:48.but this was the first Hercules The Cambridge-based company has had
:07:49. > :07:53.the contract ever since. The latest one, to 2022,
:07:54. > :07:56.is worth ?69 million. Half a dozen are serviced by
:07:57. > :08:04.the 1,200 workers unit any one time. They're fairly complex
:08:05. > :08:07.as far as avionics go, but the fundamentals of it are quite
:08:08. > :08:14.basic, which explains In the last 15 years or so I've done
:08:15. > :08:19.more flights on Fat Albert, as she's effectively known,
:08:20. > :08:22.than I can recall. She might not be the most
:08:23. > :08:25.comfortable plane, but she is certainly one
:08:26. > :08:30.of the most reliable. While a major service
:08:31. > :08:33.on your car would take a day, an overhaul of this airframe takes
:08:34. > :08:35.up to nine months. Hercules from across the world
:08:36. > :08:37.are serviced at Marshall, but the RAF is by far
:08:38. > :08:40.its biggest customer. The last contract we actually
:08:41. > :08:42.signed with the MOD, we took 20% out in terms of real
:08:43. > :08:45.value and increased availability by 30% so year on year year,
:08:46. > :08:49.that's pretty significant. It also helps to win
:08:50. > :09:00.other MOD contracts. Marshall work on the Navy's Estute
:09:01. > :09:02.Submarine class and supply the kit for army mobile hospital units
:09:03. > :09:05.but this is the flagship deal, celebrated with a special paint job
:09:06. > :09:08.on the tail of an iconic aircraft. Fat Albert has a few
:09:09. > :09:16.decades of life in her yet. The location for Northamptonshire's
:09:17. > :09:17.new police and fire This is what the new building
:09:18. > :09:23.on Cherry Hall Road The phased move will take
:09:24. > :09:27.place in late 2017. Let's get the weather
:09:28. > :09:29.for the week ahead with Julie, A lot of uncertainty
:09:30. > :09:36.regarding the run-up to Christmas and what the weather is going to do,
:09:37. > :09:39.but this is how it A largely dry night apart from a few
:09:40. > :09:47.showers, clear intervals and we may see patchiness and frost in places
:09:48. > :09:49.because in some spots, temperatures make fall
:09:50. > :09:52.lower than these values, Tomorrow, we start off with dues
:09:53. > :09:57.and showers and quite a lot of cloud and mist in places but then it
:09:58. > :10:00.should be drier and brighter and we should see sunshine breaking
:10:01. > :10:02.through, temperatures around six Wednesday's weather depends
:10:03. > :10:11.on the movement of this front. At the moment, it looks
:10:12. > :10:16.like a cloudy start with patchy rain that will become drier and brighter
:10:17. > :10:21.with blustery showers moving through, we're expecting
:10:22. > :10:23.a good moderate to fresh Thursday's weather is
:10:24. > :10:25.dependent on how quickly For most of us, it should start dry,
:10:26. > :10:34.the rain should clear into the North Sea and we should
:10:35. > :10:37.see sunshine developing. Friday, high pressures in charge,
:10:38. > :10:40.this weather front bringing rain on Friday night so perhaps some
:10:41. > :10:43.frost and mist first thing on Friday but short-lived and the bulk
:10:44. > :10:46.of the day should be fine and dry, turning increasingly
:10:47. > :10:48.cloudy from the west. In a moment, the national forecast,
:10:49. > :10:51.but I'll leave you with the outlook for Christmas and it does look like,
:10:52. > :10:55.on Christmas Eve, some rain first thing then that gives
:10:56. > :10:56.way to blustery showers and Christmas Day, a dry start
:10:57. > :11:14.with wet and windy weather moving Heavy weather is brewing, it will
:11:15. > :11:20.not reach us just yet. It will take a good few days before the stormy
:11:21. > :11:23.weather reaches us. At the moment, it's just potential, nothing is
:11:24. > :11:25.certain, but it will be different to what we've had over the last few
:11:26. > :11:26.weeks,