:00:00. > 3:59:59Do we ourselves to be more important than we really are in international
:00:00. > :00:11.affairs? Look North has been given
:00:12. > :00:15.unprecedented access to see the care As demand for places
:00:16. > :00:20.outstrips availability because of the ageing population,
:00:21. > :00:24.care homes also face the problem Our reporter Carla Fowler has been
:00:25. > :00:30.to one care home in Scarborough, where residents and staff agreed
:00:31. > :00:33.to let her film them Dayshift starts at 7.15
:00:34. > :00:41.here at St Cecilia's nursing This is a medium-sized home, housing
:00:42. > :00:48.in total around 40 residents. Each have different, complex needs,
:00:49. > :00:51.ranging from dementia This is the constant
:00:52. > :00:58.soundtrack to their lives. Room buzzers calling for help
:00:59. > :01:01.24 hours a day, seven days a week. Normally, eight care workers
:01:02. > :01:04.and two nurses staff a morning shift but today Sue
:01:05. > :01:11.Gregory is the only available nurse. Because the population's got bigger,
:01:12. > :01:19.hospitals can't keep them, so that nurses are taking
:01:20. > :01:22.more what we wouldn't There's a chronic national
:01:23. > :01:32.shortage of nurses, nursing applicants from the EU
:01:33. > :01:37.have fallen by 90%. St Cecilia's just
:01:38. > :01:40.can't recruit enough. It's the health care assistants,
:01:41. > :01:43.or HCAs, who look after all Every year, one in five
:01:44. > :01:50.staff here move on. It's quite upsetting
:01:51. > :01:53.and disheartening when you find out that people earn more just
:01:54. > :01:57.stacking shelves and you're You're not falling,
:01:58. > :02:03.you're all right. The care sector is quite,
:02:04. > :02:08.like, a dead end job. I know it sounds horrible
:02:09. > :02:11.but you can't progress much I love my job, don't
:02:12. > :02:18.get me wrong, but it's not So far, it's what I
:02:19. > :02:21.want to do forever. Most care workers are paid just
:02:22. > :02:28.above the minimum wage. The local authority pays
:02:29. > :02:32.St Cecilia's around ?500 per week There simply isn't enough
:02:33. > :02:39.money for more staff. The smallest providers are the ones
:02:40. > :02:41.that are going to go next. That's what we've had to do
:02:42. > :02:46.in this instance is to buy There's a lot of small
:02:47. > :02:50.operators in this town. The way things are going,
:02:51. > :02:53.we're going to lose a few We've already lost a few
:02:54. > :02:57.in the last couple of years. We're going to lose a few
:02:58. > :03:00.more, without a doubt. Meanwhile, social services
:03:01. > :03:03.and hospitals call two or three Tonight's on-shift nurse
:03:04. > :03:12.has called in sick. An agency nurse has
:03:13. > :03:14.had to be drafted in. She's the clinical lead
:03:15. > :03:16.for the night in a home Is this the cupboard
:03:17. > :03:22.for the medications? Every resident here is somebody's
:03:23. > :03:30.mother, father, loved one. But, often, those closest to them
:03:31. > :03:39.are the workers who care. The government didn't
:03:40. > :03:41.want to comment but told us it was backing the industry
:03:42. > :03:43.with an extra ?2 billion over And it's overseen an increase
:03:44. > :03:50.in apprentices in the industry. Mike Padgham owns St Cecilia's care
:03:51. > :03:53.home, and is chairman At a time of economic crisis
:03:54. > :04:00.we've currently got, local authorities who purchased most
:04:01. > :04:02.of the care across the country and in North Yorkshire particularly
:04:03. > :04:05.are strapped for cash themselves. The government says it's given
:04:06. > :04:07.them ?2 billion extra That only gets us back
:04:08. > :04:15.to where we were a few years ago. We get just under ?3 an hour to look
:04:16. > :04:20.after people with dementia. We want to pays staff ?9 -
:04:21. > :04:25.?10 an hour and they deserve it. Social care has always been
:04:26. > :04:28.a Cinderella service. Doctors and nurses do
:04:29. > :04:30.a fantastic job at social care We need to get more on-board,
:04:31. > :04:34.they need to earn more than working in supermarkets,
:04:35. > :04:36.and we want to encourage people. It's a great profession
:04:37. > :04:38.to advance yourself in. Caring for people, what better
:04:39. > :04:40.way of doing things? An inquest has heard how a York man
:04:41. > :04:44.killed in a massive gas explosion probably triggered the blast
:04:45. > :04:46.by switching on a light Paul Willmott died in the explosion
:04:47. > :04:50.at Haxby which destroyed his house The jury returned a verdict
:04:51. > :04:55.of accidental death. On this residential road in York,
:04:56. > :05:01.it was, said the coroner, A gas explosion destroying one house
:05:02. > :05:09.completely and damaging 11 others. At the time, many thought
:05:10. > :05:12.a bomb had exploded. We just couldn't believe what had
:05:13. > :05:15.happened and we were 14 months on, you will
:05:16. > :05:20.never forget it? In the wreckage of number 20
:05:21. > :05:24.Spring Woods, the body of The inquest heard how the fractured
:05:25. > :05:29.pipe that caused the explosion was damaged by corrosion,
:05:30. > :05:32.and the movement of the concrete One expert said Mr Willmott may
:05:33. > :05:38.have become desensitised We don't really know exactly how
:05:39. > :05:44.long it was leaking for, certainly it is possible
:05:45. > :05:47.there was a smell of gas there that And simply switching on a light
:05:48. > :05:52.may have ignited that? Yes, we just need any sort
:05:53. > :05:55.of tiny spark so it's not necessarily a naked flame,
:05:56. > :05:58.just a small electrical spark that you get on a switch
:05:59. > :06:01.contact is sufficient, 14 months since the explosion,
:06:02. > :06:06.the coroner, Rob Turnbull, today recorded the jury's conclusion
:06:07. > :06:10.of accidental death. On Spring Wood, meanwhile,
:06:11. > :06:13.a sense of normality There is still some concern, though,
:06:14. > :06:19.as to why this gas pipe fractured I don't know how you check it
:06:20. > :06:24.without actually digging down, Olivia Costello, the partner
:06:25. > :06:31.of Mr Willmott, didn't During the hearing, though,
:06:32. > :06:36.she described him as a man that was more aware than most
:06:37. > :06:38.of the risks and The flatmate of a young woman found
:06:39. > :06:49.dead at her home in Gateshead has told a court how her friend
:06:50. > :06:52.was terrified of the man Maxine McGill broke down
:06:53. > :06:56.as she described finding the body of Alice Ruggles in a pool
:06:57. > :07:00.of blood last October. Miss Ruggle's ex-boyfriend,
:07:01. > :07:02.Lance Corporal Trimaan The court heard Alice Ruggles
:07:03. > :07:09.was a bubbly, funny person, who'd shown strength when she ended
:07:10. > :07:11.the controlling But when her boyfriend
:07:12. > :07:15.Lance Corporal Trimaan Dhillon continued contacting her,
:07:16. > :07:19.even turning up outside her bedroom window in Gateshead one night,
:07:20. > :07:22.weeks before her death, she was petrified and
:07:23. > :07:25.reported him to the police. Alice's flatmate Maxine McGill told
:07:26. > :07:29.jurors at Newcastle Crown Court that Alice was pale and shaken,
:07:30. > :07:32.and said she thought the soldier Miss McGill told the court that
:07:33. > :07:38.Alice let her listen to a voice mail that Lance Corporal Dhillon
:07:39. > :07:41.left her that night. In it, he repeatedly said
:07:42. > :07:45.he did not want to kill her. "I remember counting the times
:07:46. > :07:48.he said the phrase 'kill you,'" she told the court,
:07:49. > :07:54."It was six or seven times." Lance Corporal Dhillon was told
:07:55. > :07:57.to stop contacting Alice Miss McGill said Alice rang
:07:58. > :08:02.the police again and spoke Ms McGill told the court she said
:08:03. > :08:07.she felt palmed off, she was asked the question "What do
:08:08. > :08:21.you want us to do about it?" A statement by a paramedic
:08:22. > :08:24.who was at the scene In it, he said the injuries to
:08:25. > :08:28.Alice's throat was so catastrophic and severe he did not believe it
:08:29. > :08:33.could have been self-inflicted. Lance Corporal Dhillon
:08:34. > :08:35.denies murder. Four adults and a child were taken
:08:36. > :08:41.to hospital tonight, after a car overturned
:08:42. > :08:44.at the Gateshead end The bridge was closed,
:08:45. > :08:48.and traffic severely affected. Prince Charles has spent the second
:08:49. > :08:57.day of his visit to Cumbria seeing how Appleby has recovered
:08:58. > :09:01.from the floods of Storm Desmond. 176 properties were hit
:09:02. > :09:04.when the River Eden breached its banks in December 2015 and,
:09:05. > :09:08.although most are back on their feet, locals say a royal
:09:09. > :09:14.visit is a welcome boost. That's it from me this evening,
:09:15. > :09:28.time now to take a look There was a lot of grey around today
:09:29. > :09:33.with a cold afield to things as well thanks to the wind. It is still
:09:34. > :09:36.mostly dry as we head into the nighttime but the clouds are
:09:37. > :09:40.thickening up and that cloud will eventually bring some patchy rain
:09:41. > :09:45.into parts of Cumbria and the Pennines. With a lot of cloud and
:09:46. > :09:52.that brisk wind, the temperatures won't drop lower than eight. Through
:09:53. > :09:56.the morning, the rain becomes more widespread, especially across
:09:57. > :10:00.Cumbria with heavy bursts, more it at and further east and then it
:10:01. > :10:03.clears away southwards fairly quickly through the morning so the
:10:04. > :10:08.afternoon sees the odd shower but essentially a drier, brighter end to
:10:09. > :10:12.the day than the start. We will see hies roundabout 12, which is 54
:10:13. > :10:18.Fahrenheit. Similar to the sort of figures we had today but the wind
:10:19. > :10:21.will be strong making it feel cold. Tomorrow, it is a brisk west to
:10:22. > :10:25.north-westerly. Heading to the middle and latter part of the week,
:10:26. > :10:32.high anchored off to the south-west of the UK, some West to
:10:33. > :10:37.north-westerly airflow keeping things cool. Then we have patchy
:10:38. > :10:42.rain on Good Friday then we have a largely dry picture at the weekend.
:10:43. > :10:46.Thursday, a mostly dry picture with broken cloud, sunny intervals but
:10:47. > :10:51.temperatures just about making it into double figures with 11 Celsius
:10:52. > :10:56.be high although the winds should be lighter. Figure cloud on Friday,
:10:57. > :10:59.then mostly dry and bright again but still feeling on the cool side in
:11:00. > :11:02.the breeze as we head into the weekend. I'll leave you with
:11:03. > :11:07.rain but it will be brighter later. On Sunday, on the cool side for East
:11:08. > :11:24.itself. Good evening. Grace of all it -- it
:11:25. > :11:30.is greatest of all in Scotland. A weather front is on the move. The
:11:31. > :11:34.rain edging down into south-western parts of Scotland and northern
:11:35. > :11:39.Ireland. Much of England and Wales will have a dry note but not quite
:11:40. > :11:44.as Chile to start tomorrow. Let's deal with the wet weather first
:11:45. > :11:49.thing tomorrow. It will be a damp start for Scotland and Northern
:11:50. > :11:53.Ireland. Heaviest rain on the hills towards the coast and east of the
:11:54. > :11:54.Pennines, not too much rain at