:00:21. > :00:25.Crews admit they struggle to get to patients in time.
:00:25. > :00:28.The 81-year-old war veteran beaten up after asking a group of youths to
:00:28. > :00:36.stop throwing things at his house. Turning empty shops into houses, the
:00:36. > :00:43.plan to breath new life into our high streets.
:00:43. > :00:53.And more than 30,000 people watch Hull's finest local talent.
:00:53. > :01:05.
:01:05. > :01:15.I will be asking just what events like this And we will have the full
:01:15. > :01:16.
:01:16. > :01:19.weather forecast later in the programme.
:01:19. > :01:21.It provides emergency care for almost five million people, but for
:01:21. > :01:25.the past three years the East Midlands Ambulance Service has
:01:25. > :01:28.failed to meet its response times. Tonight we go behind the scenes with
:01:28. > :01:31.the ambulance crews who are struggling to meet those targets and
:01:31. > :01:33.hear claims that there simply aren't enough ambulances on the road in
:01:33. > :01:37.Lincolnshire. It's been a troubled few months for
:01:37. > :01:38.EMAS. Earlier this year it was fined �3.5 million for missing targets
:01:38. > :01:42.again. A controversial plan to reorganise
:01:42. > :01:46.the service has been called in for review by the government. And then
:01:46. > :01:50.on Friday, the Chief Executive left his job after less than two years in
:01:50. > :01:53.the role. In a moment I'll be talking to a local MP who sits on
:01:53. > :01:56.Parliament's Health Committee and has his own ideas about what need to
:01:56. > :01:59.happen to EMAS in the future. But first, this special report from our
:01:59. > :02:02.Health Correspondent Vicky Johnson, who spent a night with ambulance
:02:02. > :02:09.crews in Lincolnshire. Vicky's report does contain some flashing
:02:09. > :02:13.lights. We are just making sure we have got
:02:13. > :02:23.everything that we need. That's the first job crews do when they clock
:02:23. > :02:24.
:02:24. > :02:27.on. Minutes later, they get their first It takes them 16 minutes to
:02:27. > :02:33.drive the 12 miles to Dunham on Trent, where an elderly man has
:02:33. > :02:43.collapsed. A decision's quickly made to transfer him straight to hospital
:02:43. > :02:43.
:02:43. > :02:49.in Lincoln. We are not really sure what is going on with him. I think
:02:49. > :02:53.he came through as an eight minute response. Because of where it what
:02:53. > :02:56.it took us longer than that and that was one that was missed. This is
:02:56. > :03:00.such a huge county. My personal opinion is that we do not have
:03:00. > :03:06.enough vehicles on the road to cover the amount of people that we deal
:03:07. > :03:10.with on a daily basis. The handover at the emergency department went
:03:10. > :03:16.quickly and smoothly, but that's not always the case. We had two vehicles
:03:16. > :03:18.to queue in on Tuesday. This is an all year round thing now. It is
:03:19. > :03:23.frustrating when you are sat at the back of the queue waiting with
:03:23. > :03:29.patients that are potentially quite poorly, but there is just nowhere to
:03:30. > :03:33.put them. Before they can go back on call, the crew has to complete the
:03:33. > :03:37.new electronic patient report forms, and that can take up to half an
:03:37. > :03:44.hour. League-macro you can experience -- you can experience
:03:44. > :03:49.quite extensive delays. We just have to see the patient as quickly as we
:03:49. > :03:55.can. Admin completed, and it's straight back on the road, attending
:03:55. > :04:00.to yet another emergency. There is a 25-year-old female who is querying
:04:00. > :04:05.an asthma attack. By the time they get to North Hykeham, a first
:04:05. > :04:09.responder from Lives is already there. This time the service has met
:04:09. > :04:14.its response target. I am just about two or three miles up the road
:04:14. > :04:20.there. One in our responders lives just up the corner so it is quite a
:04:20. > :04:23.local one for me. The crew take over and decide not to take the young
:04:23. > :04:28.woman to hospital. Instead, they make an appointment for her at the
:04:28. > :04:31.out of hours service. We do all of the paperwork the same. We will make
:04:31. > :04:36.an appointment and bring them up now and then he can bring them back once
:04:36. > :04:41.she has seen the doctor there. have described a job, a 72-year-old
:04:41. > :04:46.female that has fallen and hurt her leg. But within minutes they were
:04:46. > :04:49.diverted from Sleaford to Woodhall Spa. A 19-year-old female with
:04:49. > :04:55.breathing problems. The elderly date he will have to wait until someone
:04:55. > :04:59.else is available to go see to her. -- the elderly lady. If there is
:04:59. > :05:06.going to be a delay in getting a crew to a patient they will send a
:05:06. > :05:10.fire crew out -- the fire brigade out. It's took the crew 15 minutes
:05:10. > :05:16.to get here, but as first responders, the fire brigade were on
:05:16. > :05:20.scene much quicker. As far as the crews on the ground are concerned,
:05:20. > :05:25.patients should always be put first. Patient care, second sometimes,
:05:25. > :05:29.which is a shame that targets me nothing to us at the end of the day.
:05:29. > :05:36.We are here to deal with the patients and treat them. There are a
:05:36. > :05:41.lot of politics in the job that we do. I come for the public and I may
:05:41. > :05:44.best and then go home again. There is an emergency call to the East
:05:44. > :05:48.Midlands Ambulance Trust every 45 seconds, and demand is increasing
:05:48. > :05:52.every year. Extra funding for more front-line staff should have been
:05:52. > :06:01.sure of the battle to answer all calls within the necessary targets
:06:01. > :06:04.is one more often. Nobody from EMAS wanted to be
:06:04. > :06:06.interviewed today, but in a statement told us that the poor road
:06:07. > :06:09.network in Lincolnshire does make meeting targets a challenge.
:06:09. > :06:13.However, they've secured some additional funding that will be
:06:13. > :06:16.spent on a 126 extra front-line staff. Andrew Percy is the MP for
:06:16. > :06:22.Brigg and Goole and is also on the Health select Committee. He's with
:06:22. > :06:25.me this evening. The Trust has been fined �3.5 million for failing to
:06:25. > :06:28.meet targets for the third year running. Plans for reorganisation
:06:29. > :06:32.have been put on hold and on Friday the Chief Executive resigned. How
:06:32. > :06:37.much confidence do you have in this ambulance service? I am very
:06:37. > :06:39.concerned about this whole state of affairs, actually. My constituents
:06:39. > :06:43.living in rural parts of Lincolnshire deserve the best
:06:43. > :06:50.ambulance service and for the targets to be meant as much as
:06:50. > :06:57.possible. We have to ask whether or not this trust is fit for purpose.
:06:57. > :07:02.Do we need to be listening to this? Yes. Southern parts of
:07:02. > :07:09.Leicestershire all the way up to the Humber Bridge, we need to ask, is
:07:09. > :07:12.this trust serving our area and to these big trusts really work?
:07:12. > :07:16.senior paramedic who we heard from there says targets come before
:07:16. > :07:21.patient care. Is she right? You have got to have the targets. I would not
:07:21. > :07:28.want to see the eight minute target go. For rural areas they will always
:07:28. > :07:31.be more challenging. It is the rural areas that suffer even more if you
:07:31. > :07:35.are not pushing the trust all the time to hit the eight minutes
:07:35. > :07:40.targets. The paramedics are right, patients must always come first, but
:07:40. > :07:46.targets can help to achieve that. All of this money would be better
:07:46. > :07:49.spent on the service itself, wouldn't it? It does sound a bit of
:07:49. > :07:58.a perverse incentive that you find a trust for not hitting its target and
:07:58. > :08:04.then put them in the worst financial position. -- find a trust will stop
:08:04. > :08:12.-- find a trust. Will your government relax the targets or will
:08:12. > :08:16.you invest in more ambulance crews for Lincolnshire. We have been
:08:16. > :08:20.increasing the number of paramedics. There are more paramedics nationally
:08:20. > :08:25.on the front line, but there is supposedly going to be an
:08:25. > :08:34.announcement this week of an extra half �1 billion to deal with this
:08:34. > :08:39.crisis, so hopefully that will release more ambulances. Should
:08:39. > :08:43.Lincolnshire have its services again? We need to find out whether
:08:43. > :08:49.mixing these larger urban areas with rural areas is really fit for
:08:49. > :08:52.purpose or would we be better with a more rural focused amulets service.
:08:53. > :08:57.It is up to the commissioners ultimately, but I think we should
:08:57. > :09:07.look at whether we should have a smaller service. Thank you very much
:09:07. > :09:09.indeed for coming in. We'd like to hear your views on this one. What's
:09:09. > :09:19.been your experience of the ambulance service locally? Do you
:09:19. > :09:30.
:09:30. > :09:34.think the crews are overstretched? In a moment: Why criminals gangs are
:09:34. > :09:38.costing our rural communities more than �5 million a year.
:09:38. > :09:41.People living on a Grimsby estate are calling for CCTV cameras to be
:09:41. > :09:46.installed after an 81-year-old war veteran was attacked by a group of
:09:46. > :09:54.youths. Barney Alcock suffered cuts to his face after a confrontation
:09:54. > :09:57.outside his home. It's claimed the boys had been throwing things at his
:09:57. > :10:04.windows. Crispin Rolfe's report contains some graphic images of Mr
:10:04. > :10:11.Alcock's injuries. He has that's too much of a scab, so
:10:11. > :10:16.I have to take him back on Thursday. -- he has got too much. Recovering
:10:16. > :10:19.after an attack. But Barney Alcock, who has dementia, can't remember how
:10:19. > :10:26.he sustained these wounds. But it's left the 81-year-old former Korean
:10:26. > :10:31.War veteran to be treated at home by his wife after two hospital visits.
:10:31. > :10:37.Honestly, he cannot remember what happened. He still keeps going a bit
:10:37. > :10:40.dizzy when he looks down. Wife Thelma, however, remembers Barney
:10:40. > :10:43.going outside to intervene after a group of youngsters repeatedly threw
:10:43. > :10:46.cherries at the windows of the couple's Grimsby home. I came back
:10:46. > :10:50.in here to get the telephone to phone the police and get the lads
:10:50. > :10:54.moved on. I got to the kitchen window and was talking to this
:10:54. > :10:58.police lady and I saw him at the floor. I went out and had a look and
:10:58. > :11:03.I was absolutely gob smacked at the state of him when I got across the
:11:03. > :11:13.road. He was absolutely covered with blood, his white vest was red, and
:11:13. > :11:16.
:11:16. > :11:19.it was all down his trousers and deliver the floor. A week on, and
:11:19. > :11:22.the talk along the Nunsthorpe Estate is of who was or wasn't involved.
:11:22. > :11:26.And from neighbours along Redbourne Road and Winchester Avenue, how to
:11:26. > :11:29.prevent an assault like this from happening again. The call from parts
:11:29. > :11:33.of the community is for CCTV cameras to be installed. I think it would be
:11:33. > :11:37.a good idea. There are a lot of old people around here and I think it
:11:37. > :11:41.would make them feel a little bit secure. There is no excuse. You do
:11:41. > :11:47.not do that, especially to an old person. They are a lovely couple
:11:47. > :11:52.next door. Police have issued a statement to say they have arrested
:11:52. > :11:55.a 14-year-old boy in connection with the incident you had subsequently
:11:55. > :12:03.been let out on bail. They are still looking for further witnesses to
:12:03. > :12:06.come further -- forward. In the meantime, Barney Alcock says the
:12:06. > :12:09.attack won't deter him from going out in future. But among the local
:12:09. > :12:16.Nunsthorpe community, the assault of this 81-year-old man has been
:12:16. > :12:22.branded as completely unacceptable. A man whose body was found in a
:12:22. > :12:25.drain in Lincolnshire has been named. 27-year-old Aleksandr
:12:25. > :12:28.Vasilevskij, who's originally from Lithuania, was found in the Maud
:12:28. > :12:37.Foster drain in Boston on Friday. An inquest is expected to be opened
:12:37. > :12:40.tomorrow. Work has begun to expand the
:12:40. > :12:43.Accident and Emergency department at the Diana Princess of Wales hospital
:12:43. > :12:46.in Grimsby has begun. �60,000 will be spent where the most seriously
:12:46. > :12:49.ill patients are assessed. The hospital says it will mean more
:12:49. > :12:54.people can be treated at the same time, reducing the waiting times for
:12:54. > :12:56.ambulance crews. Empty shops in high streets should
:12:56. > :13:05.be turned into homes, that's according to Lincolnshire MP and
:13:05. > :13:08.Planning Minister Nick Boles. He believes we should worry less about
:13:08. > :13:17.empty shops and turn them into homes and dad. Our business correspondence
:13:17. > :13:22.has been looking at how that might work. -- instead. Nick balls need to
:13:22. > :13:32.look no further than his and constituency to the -- Katrin
:13:32. > :13:32.
:13:33. > :13:37.Jonsdottir needs to look no further being in a sustainable place in the
:13:37. > :13:42.middle of town, being eyes on the street said that if anybody was
:13:42. > :13:47.thinking of misbehaving, they would not be so likely to do so. Nick
:13:47. > :13:51.Boldt is that you told a local newspaper that he a relaxed --
:13:51. > :13:55.relaxed approach. His comments are controversial because he appears to
:13:55. > :14:00.be the First Minister to suggest that in parts of our high street, we
:14:01. > :14:05.should abandon -- abandoned retailing altogether. The government
:14:05. > :14:13.has tried to breathe new life -- live in the towns by using retail
:14:13. > :14:21.experts, but the project has had mixed progress. We need shops and we
:14:21. > :14:25.need people to come into town and spend Monday -- money. There is
:14:25. > :14:29.hardly any housing around here anyway, so it would be good.
:14:29. > :14:35.cities like Lincoln, it is a ready happening. These offices have been
:14:35. > :14:41.converted into homes. You're looking at refurbishment. You are not having
:14:41. > :14:43.to release it so much Greenland. Actually, it does make sense to
:14:43. > :14:50.revitalize and rejuvenate areas and set of letting them fall into
:14:50. > :14:53.natural decay. This man says that turning shops into homes is a bad
:14:53. > :14:59.idea. Let's not decrease the footfall by turning shots into
:14:59. > :15:09.housing. Let's increase the footfall by trying to get more people in the
:15:09. > :15:16.
:15:16. > :15:21.town. In a statement, Nick Boles was is now going to recommend that
:15:21. > :15:23.councils concentrate their shots into one or two prime streets.
:15:23. > :15:31.town centres could be looking very different to these proposals become
:15:31. > :15:34.reality. -- if these proposals. This is another story we'd like your
:15:34. > :15:37.thoughts on. Is Nick Boles right? Should empty shops be turned into
:15:37. > :15:47.houses or flats? Will anything breathe new life into our shopping
:15:47. > :15:57.
:15:57. > :16:02.streets? people watch on as Hull's
:16:02. > :16:12.transformed into an arts and music festival. But will it be enough to
:16:12. > :16:16.
:16:16. > :16:21.earn Hull the title of City of photographs coming in. It was a very
:16:21. > :16:27.busy weekend in Lincolnshire. Saturday, waiting for the
:16:27. > :16:32.illuminations to be switched on. Thank you very much for that's. A
:16:32. > :16:38.very busy day on the photographs front of Sunday. This is from an air
:16:38. > :16:45.show. A lot of planes on the programme recently. I think the
:16:45. > :16:55.presenter was a plane spotter. Thank you very much. Another picture
:16:55. > :16:57.
:16:57. > :17:02.tomorrow night. Let's get the around but tomorrow promises to be a
:17:02. > :17:05.lot drier and brighter. -- little bit of rain. This little ridge of
:17:05. > :17:10.high pressure is going to give us a bit more settled conditions. It
:17:10. > :17:14.looks like it will continue through Wednesday as well. The promise of
:17:14. > :17:21.drier and bright weather ahead. Tonight we will see spells of rain.
:17:21. > :17:25.If you have your of rain as he go into overnight tonight. -- as we go
:17:25. > :17:35.into overnight tonight for the a fresher field tonight so it will be
:17:35. > :17:45.easier to get to sleep tonight. The sun role rise at 5:24am. Those are
:17:45. > :17:50.
:17:50. > :17:53.a deal of dry weather on the cards for tomorrow. Clouds will bubble up
:17:53. > :18:00.as we go through the afternoon, but more importantly, it looks as though
:18:00. > :18:08.it will stay dry. When we see the sunshine, temperatures will be up to
:18:08. > :18:12.19 and 20, if not 21 degrees. With a light read, it should feel quite
:18:12. > :18:21.pleasant, and it will be a quite -- with a light breeze, it should feel
:18:21. > :18:25.quite pleasant. Amateurs will still hover around 19 or 20 degrees --
:18:25. > :18:29.temperatures will still hover around 19 or 20 degrees. And looks like we
:18:29. > :18:32.are sad to see one or two more showers. For Thursday and Friday,
:18:32. > :18:42.the showers will linger on the coast. Tomorrow it looks like it
:18:42. > :18:46.
:18:46. > :18:50.Yorkshire and the Humber is the highest in the country. New figures
:18:50. > :18:54.show that, while it's at a five year low, crime in the countryside still
:18:54. > :18:57.costs this area more than �3 million a year. Emma Massey has more.
:18:57. > :19:03.What short of majors -- what sort of measures have you taken to protect
:19:03. > :19:12.the church? We had to put equipment up a few years ago when we were
:19:12. > :19:20.brought for light. -- Rob for light. Installed to protect this church in
:19:20. > :19:24.Harpham, East Yorkshire from rural crime. This CCTV footage also helped
:19:24. > :19:29.to convict this man, seen here walking away, of stealing from this
:19:29. > :19:39.and over 600 other churches from up and down the country. Jeanette
:19:39. > :19:47.
:19:47. > :19:51.Corkwell and her husband farm near Driffield. Two years ago they were
:19:51. > :19:56.burgled and were among one of 56 properties targeted that night.
:19:56. > :20:06.not get frightened very easily will stop -- I do not get frightened very
:20:06. > :20:07.
:20:07. > :20:16.easily, but I was stopped my husband was away. Lincolnshire was the third
:20:16. > :20:19.worst area hit in 2012, with �1.8 million lost to criminals. Crime has
:20:19. > :20:26.fallen significantly year after year because a lot of prevention measures
:20:26. > :20:30.have gone into the area. As well as actively policing local communities,
:20:30. > :20:36.police are now working alongside them in order to stay one step ahead
:20:36. > :20:43.of criminals. We have to build a big team, and local residents are an
:20:43. > :20:46.integral part of that team. In North Lincolnshire, at the farm watch
:20:46. > :20:54.scheme there has been in existence for two years and they have managed
:20:55. > :20:59.to half rural crime in that time. But there's still some way to go to
:20:59. > :21:02.bring down this and other types of crime in rural areas to make them a
:21:02. > :21:06.safer place to live and work. But even though rural crime figures are
:21:06. > :21:08.at a five year low there's still work to be done to make the
:21:08. > :21:12.countryside even safer. A Lincoln teacher has drowned while on
:21:12. > :21:20.holiday. She was an English teacher at an academy. The Foreign Office
:21:20. > :21:24.says it is providing consular assistance to her family.
:21:24. > :21:27.On Friday's programme we reported how drivers in rural areas feel they
:21:27. > :21:29.are becoming isolated because of the cost of filling up their cars. It
:21:29. > :21:33.followed the Government's announcement it will consider
:21:33. > :21:36.extending a fuel discount to remote parts of the country but failed to
:21:36. > :21:39.include Lincolnshire or East Yorkshire. There was a big response.
:21:39. > :21:49.Ian says, "If people choose to live in rural areas surely they must
:21:49. > :22:20.
:22:20. > :22:23.those. Scunthorpe United manager Brian Laws
:22:23. > :22:30.has challenged his players to build on Saturday's season opening wind
:22:30. > :22:32.against Mansfield. The Iron beat the visitors 2-0l, with goals from new
:22:32. > :22:36.signings Matt Sparrow and Sam Winnall. The manager says he's
:22:36. > :22:39.pleased with how his players handled the match. At times it was not
:22:39. > :22:44.pretty but we had to be determined to deal with what ever they were
:22:44. > :22:48.going to throw in the box. There was a lot of aerial bombardment against
:22:48. > :22:58.a big site and I think we got the bad and it shows that we can deal
:22:58. > :23:03.
:23:03. > :23:07.with that and that we can play wind the title of City of Culture.
:23:07. > :23:10.But if this event is anything to go by, Hull is putting up a pretty
:23:10. > :23:13.decent fight. 160 local acts performing on ten stages with an
:23:13. > :23:23.estimated audience of 34,000 people. For local artists from all genres,
:23:23. > :23:50.
:23:50. > :23:54.comedians and DJs, it was not a bad We have got some amazing talent and
:23:54. > :23:58.some great photographers. What we find ever the years is that they get
:23:58. > :24:03.to the colleges and universities and then leave the area, but events like
:24:03. > :24:05.this hopefully can help us towards the Colts are -- City of Culture
:24:05. > :24:12.bed, which will hopefully help us keep our creative people in the
:24:12. > :24:16.city. It was so busy the pumps ran dry in this pub, this pop up cafe
:24:16. > :24:20.was rushed off their feet, all good for business and of course the bid.
:24:20. > :24:25.It was just a massive showcase of local talent at all levels. Not just
:24:25. > :24:35.music, but food and drink, art, design. It was a good show and I
:24:35. > :24:41.think it could Hull pride. -- proud. There is a lot of talent in Hull and
:24:41. > :24:44.we deserve this recognition. This is what the competition are up to.
:24:44. > :24:47.Leicester held its annual Caribbean Carnival at the weekend, but Swansea
:24:47. > :24:50.Bay and Dundee have held no major free events since they were short
:24:50. > :24:54.listed. Hull has got a lot to deliver and achieve, but it has got
:24:54. > :24:58.the people on the grounds that have proved that they can create events
:24:58. > :25:01.that people want to come to, and we have got to share with that we have
:25:02. > :25:05.the energy and in duty as him and the commitment of local people.
:25:05. > :25:12.Well, with just a few weeks left before the final bid is entered, the
:25:12. > :25:18.work doesn't stop here. The push to become a City of Culture continues.
:25:18. > :25:21.Dundee sounds fine, it doesn't do it, and the sun. Caroline is on
:25:21. > :25:25.Humber Street this evening. What will this do for Hull's bid to
:25:25. > :25:30.become the UK's City of Culture in 2017?
:25:30. > :25:33.It would not be a success on Saturday without the people. Where I
:25:33. > :25:37.am standing now, it was absolutely packed with people. This event at
:25:37. > :25:41.the weekend was the start of a month of a free events taking place in the
:25:41. > :25:46.city. Every the next five weeks, there will be three festivals in the
:25:46. > :25:52.city. It is the final push. You are from the bid team. What can people
:25:52. > :26:00.do to get involved? Two we would like for people to bite us on
:26:00. > :26:08.Facebook and follow us on Twitter. Just find out what is happening. Put
:26:08. > :26:13.your ideas in. What do the people of Hull want from a City of Culture?
:26:13. > :26:16.The more likes and shares we get, the better. It also means that
:26:16. > :26:24.people's ideas can't get put into the mix and into the bid. Fingers
:26:24. > :26:29.crossed. We have the festival of food and drink next week, and it
:26:29. > :26:33.takes place in the city centre. Let's get a recap on today's
:26:33. > :26:35.headlines: Four years after his death during the G20 protests, Ian
:26:35. > :26:42.Tomlinson's family gets a formal apology from the Metropolitan
:26:43. > :26:46.Police. And amulets -- amulets cruise in
:26:46. > :26:49.Lincolnshire say they are struggling to meet their targets. There are
:26:49. > :26:53.calls for the East Midlands Ambulance Trust to be broken up.
:26:53. > :26:56.need to ask whether mixing up these large urban areas with rural areas
:26:56. > :27:02.is creating a fit for purpose services or would we be better with
:27:02. > :27:06.a more rural focused ambulance service. The weather for tomorrow,
:27:06. > :27:16.dry and bright, with some funny style. Just the chance of a shower.
:27:16. > :27:20.
:27:20. > :27:24.Top temperatures will be getting up amulets service. They say that
:27:24. > :27:30.Lincolnshire needs its own amulets service. Samantha says that
:27:30. > :27:35.Lincolnshire used to hit all of its targets. One man wonders how the
:27:35. > :27:39.services to post to achieve targets when the government is fining them