19/10/2016 Look East

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another hospital goes into special measures.

Now, the Princess Alexandra in Harlow is in the firing line.

we talk to the winners and the losers.

And two World War I soldiers are finally laid to rest in France,

100 years after This can hear they died in action.

First tonight, the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow

Inspectors say some parts are not safe and improvements

The Care Quality Commission was scathing in a number of areas.

There are not enough beds. Long waits in A

Delays in ambulance handovers. And poor leadership.

Among the few positives, caring staff and an

This from our Health Reporter, Nikki Fox.

Joanne's father is 96 and has dementia.

He was admitted to the Princess Alexandra in February.

She describes the lack of care her father received as frightening.

When I say care, I mean things like attention

to timing of antibiotics, making sure that there was a

We didn't get that with Dad. He rapidly went downhill.

This is a hospital that has now been branded unsafe in

A, critical and end of life care - and this is why.

Levels of nurse staffing in the resuscitation room were unsafe.

14 ambulances queued to transfer patients and hospital staff

A fills up because frail patients in wards cannot be moved on.

Lastly, the mortuary was using a trailer-type unit

This was parked outside in a loading bay.

The maternity unit was rated outstanding.

And one MP thinks the hospital is being sold short.

It is incredible, given it is an aged building,

spoken about, and emergency calls being highest per head than almost

Given the problems with recruitment, it is

incredible that the vast majority of residents get an excellent

No-one is denying the Chief Executive has a challenge

on his hands and he is already under scrutiny by the NHS about

allegations surrounding expenses claims while in charge of another

Now in special measures, the hospital will get

more funding and the inspectors will be watching

What will that actually mean? First, it means an improvement directive to

the trust to help them address some of the issues. That will be with

them for 12 months. It could mean more funding for the hospital. They

have already replied for financial support for the training and

development of some staff. That is important because a lot of them do

need to go to London hospitals, freely get paid more. The need to do

more to encourage and develop the staff to Steve. What about the

region as a whole. This is not the only hospital in special measures?

No, Colchester has been in special measures for three years. That has

got a new chief executive, the same man who is running Ipswich Hospital.

Just last week, Colchester was one of the best in the country when it

comes to waiting times in an accident and emergency, so some

progress has been made. Also, Addenbrooke's, it was in special

measures last year. Similar issues, measures last year. Similar issues,

with staff shortages and an overreliance on agency staff.

New figures out this week show house prices in the East of England

are rising faster than anywhere else in the country.

More than 13% over the last year - an increase of ?32,000

as people chose to work in the capital, but live elsewhere.

House prices in Basildon, for example, are up by 21%.

But the cheapest place to live is Great Yarmouth in Norfolk,

where you will pay an average price of ?150,000

This is the three bedroomed semi-detached property.

Seb started looking a few years ago, but needed

Now, ready to buy, he is interested in this three bed semi on the market

I have been looking more about three years.

I looked at a property just around the corner for ?105,000 and then

Stayed at home, stayed in on the odd weekend and I have now got

enough money to buy a house, but house prices have gone up

considerably so it is tougher than ever.

There is more opportunity for mortgages with people.

There is a lot more buy-to-let investment

going on certainly in the last few years.

It is a better place to put your money than in the banks.

Sarah Roberts is a trainee chef on minimum wage.

She is also a single mum and rents a two bedroom property.

She is worried she will never own her own place.

I don't think it is feasible with how wages

are and how everything is increasing.

I want something to hand down to him.

As soon as I leave this house I have got nothing to show

we get a take on the race hosting paces from Henry Parry. We have seen

astonishing rises in the last 12 months. The indeed tale of a painful

story for those trying to get onto the property ladder and give those

who already possess a home something of a warm goal. How long is this

going to last? It is the million-dollar question. There are

parts of central London, house prices falling. More importantly,

transaction numbers have been decimated not of the referendum, but

of changes made to stamp duty. These will inevitably infect our part of

the country. You mention the referendum. What effect do you

expect that result to have one house prices in the region? I have always

maintained that only an idiot will try and predict house prices, but my

suggestion and expectation is that house prices will be befall by the

likes of 10% in our region in the next 12 months. In the long term, it

could be worse than that, but it is very difficult to call. Thank you

very much. Two World War I soldiers

from an Essex regiment have been finally laid to rest in France,

more than 100 years after they died. Until now, nobody knew the graves

actually contained the remains While the remains of

Privates Harry Carter and William Marmon have been

discovered on the battlefield. Alex Dunlop reports from Albert

in northern France. The remains of Harry and William

fittingly borne by Royal Anglicans, soldiers with strong connections to

the old Essex Regiment. Local people came to

pay their respects. Leading the mourners,

nine family members, who never imagined they would be

making the journey from south You just don't realise what that

generation went through. And our generation, how easy we've

had it in some ways. Both men accorded a burial

with full military honours. What makes the story of these

21-year-olds Harry and William so remarkable is a wartime

clerical error. For a century, it was thought

they were buried in this cemetery. In fact, their bodies

lay in a battlefield They were discovered

by this historian. For three years, Peter Barton

and his team mapped the tunnels In November 1915, Harry and William

were on sentry duty, when a massive The fall-out killed

them and six comrades. Thanks to advances in DNA testing,

the MoD were able to trace both men's families,

two generations on. The headstones

commemorating the deaths of the soldiers stands

in the town's cemetery. The bodies of the men,

Charles Aldridge, a farler's son, and Harry, a moulder

from Luton, are still buried somewhere

beneath the craters. It is too difficult

and too dangerous to tryy As Harry and William's families take

a final tour of the place they died, it is sobering to think up to 40

bodies are recovered from the A century on, two more, at least,

have been laid to rest. Coming up now, the weather

with Alex, but from the rest Good evening. North westerly wind

has been bringing in showers from the north-east. These should clean

away during the course of the night. Things looking largely dry

overnight. The area of low pressure which brought the showers is moving

eastwards. It should move away from us. There will be the odd shower

still pushing and from the North Sea. Cool A rather

outlook, most places dry but we have that cool breeze to