:00:09. > :00:13.Good evening. news where you are.
:00:14. > :00:16.It promised to be a tough wdek for the North East Ambulance Service.
:00:17. > :00:18.Yesterday the BBC Inside Out programme revealed how emergency
:00:19. > :00:22.crews were backed up, waiting to have their patients
:00:23. > :00:26.attended to at our newest hospital in Cramlington.
:00:27. > :00:29.Today, the Care Quality Comlission report into their recent
:00:30. > :00:32.But despite their much publhcised problems, it makes far
:00:33. > :00:42.Each year, the North East Albulance Service answers more than
:00:43. > :00:48.1.5 million calls and attends more than 400,000 emergencies.
:00:49. > :00:53.But each year the pressures grow and last year, the ambulancd service
:00:54. > :00:55.here was the the worst in the country for reaching
:00:56. > :00:59.the most critically ill patients - the RED 1 calls.
:01:00. > :01:01.So the service was expecting the Care Quality Commission
:01:02. > :01:06.to announce the service required improvement.
:01:07. > :01:08.We had wondered whether we would get 'requires improvement.'
:01:09. > :01:14.We did not dare to dream we would get a 'good.'
:01:15. > :01:17.The message back to us was we had tried so hard
:01:18. > :01:20.and when CQC came in April we had 100 vacancies for paramedics.
:01:21. > :01:27.The big issue, in terms of those most
:01:28. > :01:30.critical of calls, the performance is the worst in the country for
:01:31. > :01:34.It was at the time when the CQC came.
:01:35. > :01:38.We are now about second or third in the country
:01:39. > :01:50.We're still not meeting our targets but we have improved.
:01:51. > :01:52.Because of that response getting a good overall
:01:53. > :01:54.rating is an outstanding achievement for the North East
:01:55. > :02:01.Upstairs, around 300 call h`ndlers manage around 1,000 calls every day.
:02:02. > :02:03.It's a big population to send the ambulances out to.
:02:04. > :02:15.And on the road, only around 100 ambulances.
:02:16. > :02:18.And its what they are doing right that has been applauded by CQC
:02:19. > :02:19.inspectors in giving the good rating.
:02:20. > :02:26.Advanced Practitioners for example, developed
:02:27. > :02:36.are highly skilled paramedics, who can help patients and p`ramedics
:02:37. > :02:40.We have the same referral pathway and rights as a GP.
:02:41. > :02:41.So we see a patient diagnosed say with
:02:42. > :02:43.appendicitis and instead of going to A,
:02:44. > :02:55.we would post them to a surgical admission department.
:02:56. > :02:56.Back in the call room, alongside call handlers,
:02:57. > :03:00.who help decide which patients most urgently need an ambulance.
:03:01. > :03:02.Especially when there are no more to send.
:03:03. > :03:04.My job is to go back and evaluate and make
:03:05. > :03:05.sure we have adequate information
:03:06. > :03:08.and make sure the patient, the condition has not changdd.
:03:09. > :03:09.The CQC do want more clinicians,
:03:10. > :03:16.in handover delays at A , to free up paramedics.
:03:17. > :03:18.The stress on the service is still significant,
:03:19. > :03:23.Every 12 hour shift can be highly challenging.
:03:24. > :03:25.But today a ray of sunshine and celebrations, in the knowledge
:03:26. > :03:34.that winter pressures are jtst around the corner.
:03:35. > :03:37.From today, two of our region's police forces are working together
:03:38. > :03:44.set up across Cleveland and North Yorkshire.
:03:45. > :03:46.Senior officers say it isn't just about cost cutting.
:03:47. > :03:55.Big investigations make headlines, but they also eat up increasingly
:03:56. > :03:59.Now Cleveland and North Yorkshire police have set up a combindd major
:04:00. > :04:08.It involves bringing officers and staff already skilled in major
:04:09. > :04:09.crime investigation like murders together
:04:10. > :04:12.in a way meaning when an incident happens, both forces have greater
:04:13. > :04:19.levels of trained and skilldd resources to deploy quickly.
:04:20. > :04:22.There will also be specific cold case unit of nine people whhch help
:04:23. > :04:24.bolster support for long running investigations
:04:25. > :04:28.- including the disappearance of Claudia Lawrence in York.
:04:29. > :04:30.While the investigation will continue to be lead by the same
:04:31. > :04:32.North Yorkshire officers, the changes
:04:33. > :04:38.Periodically and robustly wd review outstanding cases between
:04:39. > :04:42.Cleveland and North Yorkshire to look at lines of enquiry.
:04:43. > :04:51.Not according to senior officers in both forces.
:04:52. > :04:54.Plans to merge the regions police forces were scrapped a decade
:04:55. > :04:55.ago after North Yorkshire had spent ?250,000
:04:56. > :04:59.But the Government says levdls of cooperation in the emergdncy
:05:00. > :05:02.services "are not as widespread as they could be."
:05:03. > :05:10.and Cleveland are working together already though sharing
:05:11. > :05:13.There's a wider picture of the emergency services
:05:14. > :05:15.cooperating too, fire crews across the north east have been
:05:16. > :05:16.working as emergency first responders.
:05:17. > :05:20.This year so far they've de`lt with over 1,700 calls.
:05:21. > :05:22.Police forces in both Cumbrha and Durham also share trainhng
:05:23. > :05:27.facilities with the fire and rescue service.
:05:28. > :05:36.and effectiveness and importantly reducing the time we
:05:37. > :05:38.need to pull officers and staff away from other
:05:39. > :05:44.things they're doing in the community.
:05:45. > :05:47.This is a new way of working for the police and both offhcers
:05:48. > :05:49.and the public will decide in the next few
:05:50. > :06:01.Newcastle City Council has revealed it intends to cut the pay of around
:06:02. > :06:07.The authority says it plans to abolish some extra payments
:06:08. > :06:10.for night-time and weekend working to try to save around
:06:11. > :06:14.It claims this would save around ?2.5 million a year and prevent
:06:15. > :06:25.A Virgin Trains East Coast driver had just three seconds to shelter
:06:26. > :06:28.beneath his train as another train flashed by at more
:06:29. > :06:35.The driver had stopped his @berdeen to London train north of York
:06:36. > :06:42.He thought other trains had been halted - but they hadn't.
:06:43. > :06:51.A police officer who was victimised by fellow officers
:06:52. > :06:53.because he was Asian, is claiming ?628,000
:06:54. > :06:57.Last November a tribunal found Nadeem Saddique,
:06:58. > :06:58.a firearms officer, had been discriminated against.
:06:59. > :07:01.Now a hearing is taking place to decide how much
:07:02. > :07:10.Stuart Whincup's report contains some racist language.
:07:11. > :07:13.Nadeem says that he and his family had suffered stress, unhapphness and
:07:14. > :07:15.misery in their battle with Cleveland Police.
:07:16. > :07:18.He said many of the police officers who were found
:07:19. > :07:19.to have discriminated against him have been,
:07:20. > :07:33.shocking things to come out of the tribunal,
:07:34. > :07:35.the claim a Cleveland Policd officer said they were going
:07:36. > :07:37.to go out and shoot a Pakistan child.
:07:38. > :07:40.That officer he said was still working at the force.
:07:41. > :07:42.The former Chief Constable described that as one of the most shocking
:07:43. > :07:45.things she had heard in her time in the police service.
:07:46. > :07:47.Nadeem said even today when he went out and
:07:48. > :07:49.about on the street and saw police officers
:07:50. > :07:56.now he says they ignored hil and they turned away from hhm.
:07:57. > :08:04.Cleveland Police tried to gdt him to return,
:08:05. > :08:07.they did try to help him and get him back but now they have
:08:08. > :08:12.He is looking for ?628,000 in compensation.
:08:13. > :08:14.That money would cover loss of earnings, retraining for
:08:15. > :08:16.another job and recover from the ill-health
:08:17. > :08:18.and pain he and his family have suffered, he said.
:08:19. > :08:21.He said Cleveland Police have offered him one year's salary.
:08:22. > :08:23.This hearing is about deterlining the actual figure of
:08:24. > :08:35.Last night we told you about Jessie and Ray Lorrison -
:08:36. > :08:38.the South Shields couple who've been married for more than 65 ye`rs
:08:39. > :08:41.but were being forced to live apart after Mr Lorrison went
:08:42. > :08:45.Mrs Lorrison had been told she couldn't live there with him,
:08:46. > :08:47.despite her own poor health, because she didn't meet
:08:48. > :08:55.Well, today South Tyneside Council confirmed that Mrs Lorrison
:08:56. > :09:01.Euphoria is probably not too much of an exaggeration to use.
:09:02. > :09:02.We're all really pleased about the result.
:09:03. > :09:06.morning in hospital, apparently, when she found out.
:09:07. > :09:10.Jessie's really going to get looked after properly,
:09:11. > :09:11.together, and hopefully spend whatever time
:09:12. > :09:18.I think it will benefit both of them immensely, just being...
:09:19. > :09:20.being able to see each other, holding hands, just being there for
:09:21. > :09:24.one another, it's going to benefit both of them hugely.
:09:25. > :09:26.That's it from me this evenhng, time now to take a look
:09:27. > :09:44.Still bright but chilly tod`y. Glorious sunshine but colder. Calder
:09:45. > :09:47.in the next few days. It is dry but largely clear. Temperatures are
:09:48. > :09:52.already dropping well into single figures. The coast will stax at
:09:53. > :09:56.roundabout four, five Celsits, inland and in the countryside easily
:09:57. > :10:01.cold enough for a touch of frost into tomorrow morning. A cold start
:10:02. > :10:05.tomorrow but dry and bright. Most of us will stay dry throughout the day.
:10:06. > :10:11.Maybe more clout than today. Not as much sunshine. One two showdrs
:10:12. > :10:16.clipping the North Yorkshird coast but elsewhere bone dry throtgh the
:10:17. > :10:20.day. It will feel cold exposed to the north-westerly breeze. @nd even
:10:21. > :10:24.in a bit of shelter, with stnshine, it will only struggle up to around
:10:25. > :10:29.10 Celsius at best, which is 50 Fahrenheit. High pressure in charge
:10:30. > :10:33.at the minute. Heading throtgh the next day, it will get pushed out of
:10:34. > :10:37.the way by low-pressure comhng down from the north, bringing thhs
:10:38. > :10:42.weather front with it. Cold in the next few days as this low shnks down
:10:43. > :10:47.from the north. Producing more clout and patchy rain at times as well.
:10:48. > :10:53.Into the next few days, tomorrow is fine, dry and cold. More clout on
:10:54. > :10:55.Thursday, showery rain in the West, similar to amateurs and temperatures
:10:56. > :10:57.in single figures going into the weekend. The odd shower but some
:10:58. > :11:01.bright spells. The summary for before turning unsettled. Good You
:11:02. > :11:12.know what, in