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

Do we ourselves to be more important than we really are in international

affairs? Look North has been given

unprecedented access to see the care As demand for places

outstrips 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 nursing This is a medium-sized home, housing

in total around 40 residents. 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 staff a morning shift but today Sue

Gregory is the only available nurse. Because the population's got bigger,

hospitals can't keep them, so that nurses are taking

more what we wouldn't There's a chronic national

shortage of nurses, nursing applicants from the EU

have fallen by 90%. St Cecilia's just

can't recruit enough. It's the health care assistants,

or HCAs, who look after all Every year, one in five

staff here move on. It's quite upsetting

and disheartening when you find out that people earn more just

stacking shelves and you're 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 progress much I love my job, don't

get me wrong, but it's not 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 There simply isn't enough

money for more staff. The smallest providers are the ones

that are going to go next. That's what we've had to do

in this instance is to buy There's a lot of small

operators in this town. The way things are going,

we're going to lose a few We've already lost a few

in the last couple of years. We're going to lose a few

more, without a doubt. Meanwhile, social services

and hospitals call two or three Tonight's on-shift 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 Is this the cupboard

for the medications? Every resident here is somebody's

mother, father, loved one. But, often, those closest to them

are the workers who care. The government didn't

want to comment but told us it was backing the industry

with an extra ?2 billion over And it's overseen an increase

in apprentices in the industry. Mike Padgham owns St Cecilia's care

home, and is chairman At a time of economic crisis

we've currently got, local authorities who purchased most

of the care across the country and in North Yorkshire particularly

are strapped for cash themselves. The government says it's given

them ?2 billion extra That only gets us back

to where we were a few years ago. We get just under ?3 an hour to look

after people with dementia. We want to pays staff ?9 -

?10 an hour and they deserve it. Social care has always been

a Cinderella service. Doctors and nurses do

a fantastic job at social care We need to get more on-board,

they need to earn more than working in supermarkets,

and we want to encourage people. It's a great profession

to advance yourself in. Caring for people, what better

way of doing things? 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 in the explosion

at Haxby which destroyed his house The jury returned a verdict

of accidental death. On this residential road in York,

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

completely and damaging 11 others. At the time, many thought

a bomb had exploded. We just couldn't believe what had

happened and we were 14 months on, you will

never forget it? In the wreckage of number 20

Spring Woods, the body of The inquest heard how the fractured

pipe that caused the explosion was damaged by corrosion,

and the movement of the concrete One expert said Mr Willmott may

have become desensitised We don't really know exactly how

long it was leaking for, certainly it is possible

there was a smell of gas there that And simply switching on a light

may have ignited that? Yes, we just need any sort

of tiny spark so it's not necessarily a naked flame,

just a small electrical spark that you get on a switch

contact is sufficient, 14 months since the explosion,

the coroner, Rob Turnbull, today recorded the jury's conclusion

of accidental death. On Spring Wood, meanwhile,

a sense of normality There is still some concern, though,

as to why this gas pipe fractured I don't know how you check it

without actually digging down, Olivia Costello, the partner

of Mr Willmott, didn't During the hearing, though,

she described him as a man that was more aware than most

of the risks and 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. Miss Ruggle's ex-boyfriend,

Lance Corporal Trimaan The court heard Alice Ruggles

was a bubbly, funny person, who'd shown strength when she ended

the controlling But when her boyfriend

Lance Corporal Trimaan 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 to the police. Alice's flatmate Maxine McGill told

jurors at Newcastle Crown Court that Alice was pale and shaken,

and said she thought the soldier Miss McGill told the court that

Alice let her listen to a voice mail that Lance Corporal Dhillon

left her that night. In it, he repeatedly 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 six or seven times." Lance Corporal Dhillon was told

to stop contacting Alice Miss McGill said Alice rang

the police again and spoke Ms McGill told the court she said

she felt palmed off, she was asked the question "What do

you want us to do about it?" A statement by a paramedic

who was at the scene In it, he said the injuries to

Alice's throat was so catastrophic and severe he did not believe it

could have been self-inflicted. Lance Corporal Dhillon

denies murder. Four adults and a child were taken

to hospital tonight, after a car overturned

at the Gateshead end The bridge was closed,

and traffic severely affected. Prince Charles has spent the second

day of his visit to Cumbria seeing how Appleby has recovered

from the floods of Storm Desmond. 176 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. That's it from me this evening,

time now to take a look There was a lot of grey around today

with a cold afield to things as well thanks to the wind. It is still

mostly dry as we head into the nighttime but the clouds are

thickening up and that cloud will eventually bring some patchy rain

into parts of Cumbria and the Pennines. With a lot of cloud and

that brisk wind, the temperatures won't drop lower than eight. Through

the morning, the rain becomes more widespread, especially across

Cumbria with heavy bursts, more it at and further east and then it

clears away southwards fairly quickly through the morning so the

afternoon sees the odd shower but essentially a drier, brighter end to

the day than the start. We will see hies roundabout 12, which is 54

Fahrenheit. Similar to the sort of figures we had today but the wind

will be strong making it feel cold. Tomorrow, it is a brisk west to

north-westerly. Heading to the middle and latter part of the week,

high anchored off to the south-west of the UK, some West to

north-westerly airflow keeping things cool. Then we have patchy

rain on Good Friday then we have a largely dry picture at the weekend.

Thursday, a mostly dry picture with broken cloud, sunny intervals but

temperatures just about making it into double figures with 11 Celsius

be high although the winds should be lighter. Figure cloud on Friday,

then mostly dry and bright again but still feeling on the cool side in

the breeze as we head into the weekend. I'll leave you with

rain but it will be brighter later. On Sunday, on the cool side for East

itself. Good evening. Grace of all it -- it

is greatest of all in Scotland. A weather front is on the move. The

rain edging down into south-western parts of Scotland and northern

Ireland. Much of England and Wales will have a dry note but not quite

as Chile to start tomorrow. Let's deal with the wet weather first

thing tomorrow. It will be a damp start for Scotland and Northern

Ireland. Heaviest rain on the hills towards the coast and east of the

Pennines, not too much rain at