11/04/2017 Look North (North East and Cumbria)

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Hello and welcome to Tuesday's Look North.

In tonight's headlines - lifting the lid on the crisis in care homes.

Our cameras go behind the scenes to hear why staff

A court hears how a woman who complained to police

about her ex-boyfriend days before she was killed, felt let down

How the flick of an electric switch may have caused this massive gas

explosion that killed a man in his home.

And gambling on a post Brexit future for fishing.

Is there a place for Whitby's new state of the art trawler.

In football - an anxious wait for Newcastle United's top scorer.

And the junior golfers, battling it out for a scholarship

which could put them on the road to glory.

Look North has been given unprecedented access to see the care

As demand for places outstrip availability

because of the ageing population - care homes also face the problem

Our reporter Carla Fowler has been to one care home in Scarborough -

where residents and staff agreed to let her film them

Dayshift starts at 7.15 here at St Cecilia's in Scarborough.

Sue is due to have her weekly shower this morning

but first she must take her medication.

This is a medium-sized home, housing in total around 40

Each have different, complex needs, ranging from dementia

This is the constant soundtrack to their lives.

Room buzzers calling for help 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Normally eight care workers and two nurses make up

Because the population has got bigger hospitals can't keep them

so that nurses are taking on more that they would not

There is a chronic national shortage of

nurses, and since the Brexit, new nursing applicants from the EU have

St Cecilia's just can't recruit enough.

It's the health care assistants, or HCAs

who look after all the needs of the residents.

Every year one in five staff here move on.

It's quite upsetting and disheartening when you

find out that people are just stacking shelves and you are looking

You're not falling, you're all right.

The care sector is quite like a dead end job.

I know it sounds horrible but you can't

I love my job, don't get me wrong, but it's not what I want to

So far it's what I want to do forever.

Most care workers are paid just above the minimum wage.

The local authority pays St Cecilia's

around ?500 per week for one person's 24/7 care.

There is not enough money for more staff.

The smallest providers are the ones that are

That is what we have had to do in this instance to

There is a lot of small operators in this town.

The way things are going we are going to

We have already lost a few in the last couple of years.

We are going to lose a few more without a

Meanwhile, social services and hospitals

call two or three times a

Yes, but I've had to put them off because we've only just had one

There's another one supposed to be coming but we've no

idea what is going on with the hospital.

And then we're going to assess on Monday with who is coming

Tonight on the shift a nurse has called in sick.

An agency nurse has had to be drafted in.

She's the clinical lead for the night in a home she's

Is this the cupboard for the medications?

Just being an agency nurse, this is the sort of thing

I have had the handover from the day staff so I am quite

Every resident here is somebody's mother, father, loved one.

But often those closest to them are the workers who care.

And in our 10.25 bulletin, we'll hear from the care

home's Chief Executive, about the challenges,

The flatmate of a young woman found dead at her home in Gateshead has

told a court how her friend was terrified of the man

Maxine McGill broke down as she described finding the body

of Alice Ruggles in a pool of blood last October.

Lance Corporal Tremaan Dhillon, who was Miss Ruggles' ex boyfriend,

Alison Freeman was at Newcastle Crown Court

The court heard Alice Ruggles was a bubbly, funny person,

who had shown strength when she ended the controlling

Lance Corporal Tremaan Dhillon continued contacting her -

even turning up outside her bedroom window in Gateshead one night,

weeks before her death, she was petrified and reported him

Alice's flatmate Maxine McGill told jurors

at Newcastle Crown court that Alice was pale and shaken and said

she thought the soldier was going to kill her.

said she listened to a voicemail message Lance Corporal Dillon left

for Alice, on the night he visited their home,

in which he said he did not want to kill her.

'I remember counting the times he said the phrase 'kill

you' she told the court, 'It was 6 or 7 times'.Lance

Lance Corporal Dhillon was told to stop

Miss McGill said Alice rang the police again

she felt palmed off, she was asked the question 'what do

you want us to do about it?'she said I don't know, that's why I'm calling

because I was told if anything further happened I was to get

She said basically it was a waste of time'.Miss McGill

broke down describing finding Alice's body in a pool of blood

saying she knew she was dead as soon as she saw her.

Evidence from a paramedic who attended

throat was so catastrophic and severe that he did not believe

Lance Corporal Dhillon Denies murder.

An inquest has heard how a York man killed in a massive gas explosion

probably triggered the blast by switching on a light

Paul Willmott died last year in the explosion

which destroyed his house and damaged others around it.

The jury returned a verdict of accidental death.

Phil Connell joins me live from Haxby now.

it is hard to imagine what happened here last year, 14 months on the

basis of normality is beginning to return to this residential street.

The house that was destroyed in the explosion has now been rebuilt, with

today's inquest in concluding that no one was to blame for the

devastation. On this residential road in York,

it was, said the coroner, a A gas explosion destroying one

house completely and At the time, many thought

a bomb had exploded while others even feared

a plane had crashed. We just couldn't believe what had

happened and we were wandering 14 months on, you will

never forget that. We are still suffering

a little bit mentally. In the wreckage of number 20

Spring Woods, the body of The inquest heard how

the fractured paper that caused the explosion

was damaged by corrosion

and the movement of the concrete flooring

in One expert said Mr

Wilmott may have become desensitised to the

smell of leaking gas. We don't really know exactly how

long it was leaking for, certainly it is possible

that was a smell of gas there that And simply switching

on a light may have ignited Yes, we just need any sort

of tiny spark so it is not necessarily a naked flame,

just a small electrical spark that you get on a switch contact

is sufficient if 14 months since the explosion,

the coroner Rob Turnbull today recorded the jury's

conclusion of accidental death. There are still some concern though

as to write this gas pipe fractured What's the answers without them

coming around and checking But how you check it

without actually digging down, and how

you would know. Olivia Costello, the

partner of Mr Wilmot, didn't want to comment

after the inquest. During the hearing though

she described him as a manner that was more aware than most of

the risks and dangers in the home. The house destroyed in the explosion

was built in the 1970s and the inquest heard that it wasn't about

to modern-day standards. When the gas pipes were installed, that work

that comply with the regulations that were in place at that time. The

inquest has heard that there is no legal obligation for homeowners to

bring their properties up to modern-day standards but that

doesn't really resolve the concerns that some people here have

expressed. Northumbria Police say it could be

several weeks before they've spoken to all the families of people whose

body tissues were stored The family of Terry Simpson,

from Newcastle, say organs were stored for more than twenty

years after his death The police have stated samples

were kept for longer than necessary. On May the fourth voters will go

to the polls to decide who'll take the newly-created position

of Tees Valley Mayor. But as people prepare to wade

through an avalanche of election literature,

our political correspondent Luke Walton's been finding out

what message they want to send back Over the next few weeks,

homes here will be getting lots of political stuff

through the letterbox. As contenders to be

Tees Valley Mayor roll But ultimately it is what is true

will decide so I am off to find out what they want to put

on their wish list. First up for a mayoral missive,

a trip on the railway. Though on stations like this,

it pays to be patient, improving the areas often infrequent

and slow transport connections is a key responsibility

for the new mayor and real campaigners hope that

means better services. Stockton as a very big urban centre,

the centre of Teesside and we should have mainline trains frankly

going through from York to Stockton We have this every hour

and that is about it. Next leg for our mammoth mail shot,

a visit to a beacon of fashion, a key mayoral responsibility

is attracting employment and investment and this place knows

all about looking good and the money behind it says it is tame

in the area to got a better image. We are either ignored or they think

of it as an industrial wasteland They don't think of it

as a positive place to invest. And we really desperately

need to change that. Out on the streets of Redcar,

time for shoppers to choose There is a lot of things

want doing round here. The steelworks could do with

reopening, I was in the steelworks until not long back and the whole

place is just going down the nick. If you have a mayor

with a budget for the whole of Teesside including Redcar,

what would you like them to do? Things like that, general

maintenance of the area. It's not very good

at all I don't think. Not enough buses going

to these outlying places, they can't get into the shops,

maybe one bus a day or something The final straight for a titanic

telegram, and another challenge Investing in training and skills

is also on the mayoral to-do list. Staff at Hartlepool College say

recent events make that Some big changes in the industrial

make-up of the Tees Valley and obviously we had some really bad

shocks last year with SSI and It brings opportunities but also

that brings challenges and need to make sure we have the skilled

workforce and that workers and adults have the opportunity

to re-skill and up-skill Of course rating once

is one thing, putting them And like most politicians,

the new Tees Valley Mayor may find Prince Charles has spent the second

day of his visit to Cumbria seeing how the town of Appleby has

recovered from the floods A hundred and seventy six properties

were hit when the River Eden breached its banks in December 2015

and although most are back on their feet, locals say a royal

visit is a welcome boost. On a calm day, the bridge over

the Eden into Appleby Today though Prince Charles was told

that the river reached record heights here in December 2015,

causing misery to many who live He then went walkabout

amongst the hundreds He was very concerned about the fact

that the floods had come here two years ago.

But what impressed some people here was the Prince had

He was aware that we had lost our buses and asked about that so he

obviously is concerned with what goes on in Cumbria. It is quite

scary to meet a prince. I didn't get to talk to him but I got to meet him

and it was very exciting. The threat of flooding from the River Eden is a

persistent fear and perhaps it is easy for people to feel forgotten

once the disasters over and most people are back on their feet. That

is why a royal visitor can create welcome publicity.

James Brighurst's cafe was closed for five months after 18 inches

Prince Charles coming here is absolutely brilliant. The Royal

family does a vote for the country and obviously any sort of publicity

or coverage we can get is absolutely going for the town, puts us on the

map again. Plans to cut stroke recovery

services for patients in County Durham will be

"devastating" claims Health bosses in County Durham say

they'll reinvest the money in different ways to help those

most in need. Our health reporter Sharon Barbour's

been to Newton Aycliffe today to meet Alan -

one of thousands helped Alan Hodgson's son said his dad

was a great joiner, But one morning last summer,

Alan from Newton Aycliffe realised Tried to pour some milk into a glass

and knocked the class of Teesside because I wasn't able to control my

hand and I tried to do some butter on a slice of toast and I couldn't.

When the first told me, I was shocked.

He was supported by the Stroke Recovery Service.

The support that they have given me feels like it is personal support

and more help gives you confidence because you lose your confidence.

Over the last nine years, the service in Durham's helped

thousands of stroke patients, but health bosses in Durham

and Darlington want to cancel the ?170,000 annual contract.

The Stroke Association who provide it say that will be devatasting

The decommissioning of the service means people who have a stroke and

their carers would receive the service and those are the most

vulnerable survivors, who would have any access to long-term support.

from cutting stroke services - their plan is to improve them,

Some areas have better outcomes than County Durham and the difference is

it dedicated specialist stroke nursing service which bridges the

gap between hospital and primary care and that is what we want to

commission because we want the best service and the Trinity.

The North Durham CCG admit needing more time to recruit those

specialist stroke nurses - and to establish the service

they want, and has extended the stroke associations contact

The owners of the last remaining trawler business in Whitby

are optimistic the fishing industry will boom after Brexit.Lockers

Trawlers are currently putting the finishing touches

to a new state-of-the-art boat, the Victory Rose.

The family's next venture is to fish for plaice in UK waters,

For the Locker family, this new vessel represents more

than just solid investment in their own future.

More trawlers could be built here in the next five years

and they're determined to make the most of any new opportunities

Young people have to be coming into this job and it has to become

the job it used to be when my father started.

There are just not many people left in the job.

I think the age of most fishermen now is 40, 40 plus.

We need to get that down to 17, 18, 19 to get the industry going again.

Brexit gives us that opportunity to do that.

The previous generation of the Locker family is in no doubt

the industry's decline came with membership of the EU

and they are cautiously optimistic about the future after Brexit.

Since 1973 when we joined the EU, it has gone downhill,

to the very fact now where we used to have 25-55 vessels,

We know Theresa May doesn't want to be in the single market

as such but she wants a free trade area, which is very

similar to the Norwegians, so it is all down to quota.

There's a lot of work being done by Cefas and scientists and things

like that and we actually have about 90% of the stocks,

Our firm is always glass-half-full not glass-half-empty,

but it might just be three quarters full now.

Brexit will help because it will give the fishing

Myself and my brother and my sister's involved,

As you see, we've got Victory Rose coming out of the blocks here.

Hopefully in the next five years we can build again.

And the Lockers are moving forward long before Brexit happens

with the launch of the Victory Rose in June of this year.

We're awaiting confirmation, but the odds are Newcastle United

could face the promotion run-in without the services of top

The striker has undergone a series of tests today

on his latest hamstring injury - this one picked up in the 2-1 defeat

at Sheffield Wednesday on Saturday night.

Without him, the Magpies will need more of this

from midfielder Jonjo Shelvey - very nearly scoring the goal

of the season, with a shot from inside his own half.

Shelvey did find the net, close to the end, but it wasn't

Close House Golf Course near Heddon on the Wall in Northumberland

is hosting the British Masters in September - but today,

potential stars of the future had a chance to win a scholarship

The hope is it'll help create the next generation of golf stars -

At the end of September some of golf's biggest names will descend

on this corner of the Tyne Valley to battle it out in

Hosted by Close House attached Tour professional and former world

Number one Lee Westwood, preparations are continuing to make

sure the course is in top condition for one of the leading professional

That's a world away for these budding youngsters just starting out

But for one boy and girl chosen after a range of skills challenges

a scholarship here could set them on the road to greater things.

It gives them free access to the result is so they can use the golf

course where the Masters is going to be. We have a pitch and putt course

and they can use the facilities of the academy and it will get a free

golf lesson from the boy and girl that we choose. Pretty decent

reward. It will provide lots of opportunity for improvement and

getting to know other people and using the facilities. The wind isn't

good to make things easy for the young golfers because competition is

about much more than who stay longer strive or at holes in the best putt.

It is about their attitude and their interactions with others and the

opportunities they will get is a great one. Hopefully they can

improve their game and onto the next level so it is not just about about

the Gulf. You attitude, you behaviour and your skills. Sometimes

my attitude gets a bit out of hand. Sometimes I get angry and stuff. The

lucky winners will find out tomorrow morning.

A great chance for those youngsters. The wind to be a bit of a problem.

We weather watchers showed us how things were trying to brighten up.

Tomorrow the weather will do its bit to brighten things up because after

a damp start, we will see some blue skies and sunshine coming through

but again it will feel cooler because of the wind. It is mostly

dry through this evening, any clear spells through the early part of the

night will tend to disappear as cloud increases from the north-west,

the thicker cloud bringing outbreaks of rain through the early hours of

the morning especially for Cumbria and the Pennines. With all that

cloud and a gusty westerly wind, temperatures would drop much lower

than seven or 8 degrees. We starts tomorrow with a lot of cloud and a

fair amount of rain especially in the west, the rain in the east more

intermittent and shift eastwards through the day so that things are

drier and brighter generally through the afternoon. Most places in the

day on a dry and brighter note but will never feel warm even with some

afternoon sunshine because yet again quite a gusty west and north

westerly wind this time tomorrow. Temperatures peaking at around 12

through the afternoon. That is the picture is paid through the middle

part of the week, high pressure to the west, north westerly winds and

weather fronts skirting around the high-pressure southerners and other

frontal system coming away on Good Friday bringing thicker cloud and

patchy rain and we're back into somewhat brighter but still bullish

weather as we head into the Easter weekend properly. As we head towards

the end of the week, we keep the order brighter spell on Thursday,

still a fair amount of cloud generally with the north-westerly

breeze although it will be a bit brighter on Thursday, temperatures

into double figures for most of us. Good Friday sees a bit workload and

patchy rain with temperatures up around 12 Celsius and as we head

into Saturday we see the cloud breaking with brighter spells

breaking through but the temperatures are not really

recovering thanks to that north-westerly breeze. Only about 11

Celsius on Saturday. That is the way it is looking as we headed towards

Easter, we will keep you updated on BBC local radio with the full

forecaster regularly and you can catch up with the BBC weather app.

That summit is looking for the next few days. Thank you for the advanced

notice of that weather for Good Friday. It does soften the blow a

bit of a Novell and advance underdog make too many clans. Thank you,

that's it for us tonight. Goodbye. There have never been

so many people in work -