:00:10. > :00:11.Cumbria's Ambulance Service "requires improvement",
:00:12. > :00:14.following an inspection by the Care Quality Commission.
:00:15. > :00:17.Staff shortages and the treatment of vulnerable patients were highlighted
:00:18. > :00:22.It comes as Cumbria's Police and Crime Commissioner warns lives
:00:23. > :00:25.could be at risk if plans to reorganise the county's health
:00:26. > :00:30.services place further pressures on police and ambulance Services.
:00:31. > :00:35.The demand placed on Cumbria's emergency services has never
:00:36. > :00:40.There's concern plans to remove some services from the hospital
:00:41. > :00:43.in Whitehaven will force hundreds of extra patients to be transferred
:00:44. > :00:46.to Carlisle every year, placing greater strain not just
:00:47. > :00:49.on ambulance staff but on police officers who are
:00:50. > :00:56.On an almost daily basis, police are being called to support
:00:57. > :01:03.It is not a core role for the police, and whenever that happens,
:01:04. > :01:05.they are taken away from core policing duties.
:01:06. > :01:10.My concern is, if this was to get worse, the police
:01:11. > :01:13.don't have the resources to do it either.
:01:14. > :01:16.Based on accident statistics, the A595 is one of the most
:01:17. > :01:24.It's often closed by flooding and can be treacherous in winter.
:01:25. > :01:26.It's this road and the 40-mile journey between Whitehaven
:01:27. > :01:29.and Carlisle that's the focus of Peter McCall's letter
:01:30. > :01:32.to the success regime, the body responsible for restructuring
:01:33. > :01:36.In the letter, he says he'd be 'failing in his
:01:37. > :01:40.duty' if he didn't raise concerns about an increased patient
:01:41. > :01:42.transfers and the A595 and the knock-on effect that
:01:43. > :01:45.would have on officers called to assist an already fragile
:01:46. > :01:49.system - a worry shared by the Police Federation.
:01:50. > :01:53.As police officers are waiting for the ambulance staff, and
:01:54. > :01:55.the medical staff to arrive, jobs are backing up.
:01:56. > :01:59.And the public are sitting around, saying, where are
:02:00. > :02:03.What we don't want to do is blame other people for our
:02:04. > :02:08.non-attendance, but unfortunately, all too often, that is the case, and
:02:09. > :02:13.A dedicated ambulance transfer service is being considered
:02:14. > :02:16.as a means of easing pressure on existing staff, but Peter McCall
:02:17. > :02:20.wants reassurance any plans have been properly tested before
:02:21. > :02:25.If we don't get this right thrn it really does endanger lives,
:02:26. > :02:29.and I don't think anyone wants to be in that business.
:02:30. > :02:32.A spokesperson for the success regime said all responses
:02:33. > :02:36.to the consultation are being independently analysed and that
:02:37. > :02:43.analysis will be considered when final decisions are made.
:02:44. > :02:45.A couple from Surrey have described a north-east call
:02:46. > :02:48.handler as "an angel" for talking them through
:02:49. > :02:51.the delivery of their baby under the stairwell of their home.
:02:52. > :02:54.The mother had gone into a sudden and complicated labour,
:02:55. > :02:57.and was trying to get out of the door to a taxi,
:02:58. > :03:01.Their frantic 111 call for urgent medical help was answered
:03:02. > :03:15.Our health reporter Sharon Barbour has this exclusive story.
:03:16. > :03:18.It was a call Simon Williams in Newcastle had been trained for,
:03:19. > :03:28.A couple 300 miles away needed urgent medical help.
:03:29. > :03:36.From my mouth, it came the same, the baby was coming out.
:03:37. > :03:39.Simon knew if things went wrong, the lives of both mother
:03:40. > :03:46.Then an indication of a serious complication.
:03:47. > :03:49.There was one question he answered yes to which hurried things up a
:03:50. > :03:56.It was that the waters were stained brown.
:03:57. > :04:00.That means the baby is getting stressed.
:04:01. > :04:05.They were in Surrey and a London ambulance was now on its its way.
:04:06. > :04:07.But when a taxi they'd called earlier arrived,
:04:08. > :04:13.evidence the baby was also on its way was all over the dad.
:04:14. > :04:20.When he saw my dress, all the blood,
:04:21. > :04:24.everything on my shirt because the
:04:25. > :04:35.Within a few minutes, the sound of a baby crying.
:04:36. > :04:48.I was welling up and I congratulated them.
:04:49. > :04:54.It's extremely rare for 111 call handlers to meet their patients.
:04:55. > :04:58.But Simon has come down from the north-east
:04:59. > :05:01.and is about to arrive to meet the little girl
:05:02. > :05:09.In the end she had to be delivered here, under the stairs.
:05:10. > :05:28.A dispute between fire fighters and the North Yorkshire Fire Service
:05:29. > :05:30.is close to being resolved after a meeting this evening.
:05:31. > :05:33.Two fire fighters were sent home from duty in the
:05:34. > :05:35.dispute over a new tactical response vehicle.
:05:36. > :05:38.The unions contested it needed four officers to crew it,
:05:39. > :05:42.A way forward is now being considered by
:05:43. > :05:47.We provided an offer to the union which they will take away and
:05:48. > :05:51.Hopefully if that is acceptable to them, then we will be
:05:52. > :05:55.able tomorrow afternoon to resolve that part of the dispute that
:05:56. > :05:58.relates to tactical response vehicles.
:05:59. > :06:01.To allow that to happen, we have agreed for night shifts and day
:06:02. > :06:11.shift tomorrow, not sending anyone home.
:06:12. > :06:13.The Labour Party has selected its candidate to fight
:06:14. > :06:15.a parliamentary by-election in Copeland in West Cumbria tonight.
:06:16. > :06:17.Local county councillor and orthopaedic surgeon
:06:18. > :06:19.Gillian Troughton will look to retain the seat for the party.
:06:20. > :06:23.The by-election was caused by the resignation of
:06:24. > :06:26.Last week the Liberal Democrat Party selected local councillor
:06:27. > :06:31.The other parties have yet to pick their candidates.
:06:32. > :06:34.Millions of pounds of European money designed to help flood-hit areas
:06:35. > :06:40.?15 million of cash has been allocated from Brussels.
:06:41. > :06:44.But almost all of it will be used to pay off a fine imposed
:06:45. > :06:46.by the European Union for mis-spending money
:06:47. > :06:50.The Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron, the MP
:06:51. > :06:52.for Westmorland and Lonsdale, told the House of
:06:53. > :06:58.Whoever's fault it was that a fine was incurred,
:06:59. > :07:01.for certain it was not the fault of communities
:07:02. > :07:06.Will he commit that all of that money coming to those
:07:07. > :07:11.communities, or at the very least there to be a debate on the matter.
:07:12. > :07:13.David Lidington, the Leader of the House of Commons,
:07:14. > :07:16.told Mr Farron that an adjournment debate is probably the best way
:07:17. > :07:18.forward, and he will look into the matter of the European
:07:19. > :07:25.A significant milestone in the construction of a new bridge
:07:26. > :07:28.over the River Wear at Sunderland has been reached today.
:07:29. > :07:30.The centrepiece of the bridge, a 100-metre-tall pylon,
:07:31. > :07:35.was brought up the river by barge to the construction site.
:07:36. > :07:43.And the barge carrying the centrepiece of the new Wear
:07:44. > :07:49.From port to site, a journey of three miles,
:07:50. > :07:54.Time though to savour what will be a new landmark,
:07:55. > :07:59.And after a journey that started across the North Sea,
:08:00. > :08:03.in a Belgian fabrication yard two weeks ago, the bridge
:08:04. > :08:11.The weather's been brilliant, lovely, calm weather.
:08:12. > :08:13.And we've had the rising tide with us as well,
:08:14. > :08:16.as we came up the river, we had the tide to help us along.
:08:17. > :08:19.We are where we expected to be, still on target
:08:20. > :08:25.And today is a big milestone along that programme,
:08:26. > :08:28.and working towards achieving that completion date.
:08:29. > :08:32.The claim is that the new bridge between Pallion and Castletown
:08:33. > :08:36.will bring developments that could create 6,000 jobs.
:08:37. > :08:39.Local engineer Amy has already benefited.
:08:40. > :08:44.I went over to Belgium to see it, and didn't fully
:08:45. > :08:46.appreciate the scale when it was in the factory.
:08:47. > :08:49.But now I can actually see it, where it is, I think it's really
:08:50. > :08:56.But the next thing to watch out for is when the pylon
:08:57. > :09:00.That should happen either at the end of this month
:09:01. > :09:06.And when the pylon is in place, it'll be over 100 metres
:09:07. > :09:11.tall, twice the height of Gateshead's Millennium Bridge,
:09:12. > :09:16.no doubt a very important statistic for Wearside to boast about.
:09:17. > :09:25.Ian Reeve, BBC Look North, Sunderland.
:09:26. > :09:32.Here's Paul Mooney with a look at the weather.
:09:33. > :09:39.And a white weather is to continue. Only boring weather if you like.
:09:40. > :09:42.Mostly dry but fairly cloudy overnight. If you get any breaks in
:09:43. > :11:03.the looks as though we can, a bit more
:11:04. > :11:08.cloud on Sunday. Now the national picture.
:11:09. > :11:14.Good evening, it will gradually get colder in the UK in the next few
:11:15. > :11:15.days, something we don't have to worry about