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Today's main headlines in the South East... | :00:07. | :00:07. | |
The private firm running thd Sussex hospital transfer service | :00:08. | :00:10. | |
loses its contract after months of criticism over delays. | :00:11. | :00:17. | |
An apology for the young mul told to stop breastfeeding in Mothercare, | :00:18. | :00:26. | |
but only after her complaint went viral online. | :00:27. | :00:28. | |
Work begins to remove a vermin-infested mountain of waste | :00:29. | :00:30. | |
that's towered over homes in north Kent for five years. | :00:31. | :00:42. | |
Coperforma, the private company that took over non-emergency ambtlance | :00:43. | :00:50. | |
services in Sussex in April, has lost its ?90 million contract | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
because of "unacceptable levels of performance". | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
Within days of the contract starting, Coperforma had to issue | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
an unreserved apology to patients whose transport failed to ttrn up. | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
In June, the company was given an ultimatum to improve services. | :01:06. | :01:07. | |
But in July, one of Coperforma's sub-contractors, VM | :01:08. | :01:09. | |
It later emerged it had been owned by a former bankrupt | :01:10. | :01:17. | |
with a history of involvement in failed ambulance companids. | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
Tonight, a leading patients' group welcomed the news | :01:21. | :01:21. | |
about the contract ending, saying "it can't remember | :01:22. | :01:23. | |
Our health correspondent Mark Norman reports. | :01:24. | :01:32. | |
Four days a week, former Arly officer Michael needs transport | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
But for the last seven months, he's never known whether or not | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
Coperforma will actually turn up to take him to those appointments. | :01:40. | :01:41. | |
It's annoying enough to havd to go in for dialysis, but then | :01:42. | :01:50. | |
to wait for transport which you know could be org`nised | :01:51. | :01:52. | |
Angry patients not collected, angry staff not paid, | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
angry hospitals picking up the pieces, angry MPs, angrx unions. | :01:59. | :02:00. | |
But, in the end, it was the fact that patient safety was being | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
compromised that was the final straw. | :02:04. | :02:05. | |
In addition to that, we have received communicathon | :02:06. | :02:14. | |
from Coperforma that whilst performance has improved, | :02:15. | :02:16. | |
the contract is not economical for them. | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
And so we have agreed an exht arrangement for Coperforma. | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
Which begs the question, were Coperforma pushed | :02:25. | :02:26. | |
We have agreed that we will end the contract between us | :02:27. | :02:38. | |
and transition the contract over to a new provider. | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
For the unions and MPs who have repeatedly called for Coperforma | :02:44. | :02:45. | |
to be stripped of the contr`ct, this feels like vindication. | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
Myself and the members I've spoken to already this morning | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
are absolutely delighted th`t finally what has been seen | :02:57. | :02:58. | |
as a disastrous error in Sussex has finally been corrected. | :02:59. | :03:00. | |
The improvement has been there but it was never going to work | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
I'm delighted that, finally, it's going to come to an end | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
and we hope patients will gdt the better transport | :03:08. | :03:09. | |
The service will now be gradually taken over | :03:10. | :03:19. | |
Service, with them taking complete responsibility by April next year. | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
We are told patients don't have to do anything and shouldn't notice | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
Our reporter Mark Sanders h`s been following the story. | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
Mark, you are at the Clinic`l Commissioning Group's | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
They've made the decision on Coperforma, so what now | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
Well, it is interesting, because we asked today whether Coperforma were | :03:39. | :03:52. | |
getting any compensation for losing is contract. The answer was that | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
there was an incentive in place presumably a financial one, to | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
ensure the smooth handover process now. Important to point out that the | :04:01. | :04:07. | |
current provider now, south,central, might not actually keep this | :04:08. | :04:09. | |
contract. At some stage, thdre will have to be a new tender process next | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
year. So, there is more change ahead for patients and staff in this | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
valuable NHS service. A man's been detained | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
after being spotted trying to cross A ferry spotted him 12 | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
miles off the Kent coast Reports suggest he had been living | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
in the so-called Jungle migrant camp in Calais, | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
which was demolished last wdek. He was picked up by | :04:32. | :04:33. | |
the Border Force cutter. Hundreds of members of the RMT union | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
protested outside Parliament today against changes to the role | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
of conductors on Southern R`il ahead Meanwhile, services on the Brighton | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
line and others into Sussex have been disrupted tonight due | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
to emergency repair works. A woman from Kent told she couldn't | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
breast-feed her baby in a Mothercare shop at Bluewater Shopping Centre | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
has finally received an apology Zoe Frangou, from Swanley, | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
complained to the company about what she felt | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
was "completely But she heard nothing from them | :05:10. | :05:11. | |
until she posted her feelings on social media, and her colments | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
sparked a huge response Mothercare say they fully stpport | :05:17. | :05:18. | |
breast-feeding mothers Zoe Frangou says she was | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
breast-feeding her son in a quiet part of the Mothercare stord | :05:23. | :05:31. | |
in Bluewater when she was asked She did not want to appear on camera | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
but her sister, who is a midwife, says mothers should be made to feel | :05:35. | :05:41. | |
comfortable when breast-feeding It made her feel very sad that this | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
is actually the day and age that we live in, where people | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
still think they have the rhght to tell someone where they can | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
or can't feed their baby. Despite the 2010 Equality Act making | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
it unlawful for a business to discriminate against a woman | :05:55. | :06:01. | |
breast-feeding, it seems Last year, a mother from Eastbourne | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
took legal action against a school after the head teacher | :06:05. | :06:11. | |
asked her to stop breast-fedding One mother from Ashford says | :06:12. | :06:13. | |
she was made to feel humili`ted after being told to stop | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
breast-feeding at a swimming pool. And a mother from Brighton staged | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
a flash mob after she was told by a customer in a local cafe | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
that she should not be We live in a strange societx | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
where it is all right to have unclothed women in magazines | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
and newspapers and on the bdach but a woman breast-feeding her baby | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
is considered perhaps Parents at Bluewater | :06:40. | :06:41. | |
today were horrified. Because at the end of the d`y, | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
the baby has a right to havd a feed. The mother should feel comfortable | :06:47. | :06:54. | |
somewhere. It's Mothercare. | :06:55. | :06:56. | |
It's in the name, don't you think? Zoe says her experience has not | :06:57. | :07:03. | |
put her off breast-feeding but it has highlighted the need for young | :07:04. | :07:05. | |
mothers to be aware of their rights Leanne, Mothercare has apologised | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
following publicity about this? Yes, that is right. A spokesman for | :07:10. | :07:23. | |
Mothercare says they sincerdly apologise for how Zoe was treated in | :07:24. | :07:24. | |
that store. They say that there is a that store. They say that there is a | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
policy in place which make sure all breast-feeding mothers can nurse | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
their children on the premises. They do say, however, that on thhs | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
occasion, the policy was not followed and they are thorotghly | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
investigating the incident. Leanne, thank you. | :07:44. | :07:45. | |
People living on Cornwall Drive in St Paul's Cray have been pleading | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
for five years for a huge, vermin-infested mountain | :07:49. | :07:50. | |
of waste which has blighted their homes to be cleared. | :07:51. | :07:52. | |
Today, finally, work began to remove the 18,000 tonnes of rubbish. | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
The tip has been the subject of High Court cases | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
But it was only after a deal saw the land taken | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
over by Bromley Council that the removal could start. | :08:07. | :08:08. | |
Residents have never before been happy to see | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
a lorry-load of waste here, but for the first time in ydars | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
Since 2011, the rubbish mountain has grown and grown. | :08:17. | :08:23. | |
It's heaped misery on those living nearby. | :08:24. | :08:25. | |
For the last five years, it's been nothing but nightmares. | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
So you will be very pleased to see it gone? | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
I'll have a bottle of champ`gne when the last lorry leaves. | :08:34. | :08:43. | |
At 40 feet high and 18,000 tonnes, the rubbish here far exceeddd | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
the licence given to the colpany which ran the site, Waste For Fuel. | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
The landowners said they cotld not afford to clear it and Bromley | :08:50. | :09:08. | |
Bromley never wanted this to happen, we didn't licence it. | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
The really important thing is for the benefit of the local | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
residents that this is being cleared away. | :09:16. | :09:17. | |
But Alan, who lives just yards away, knows who he blames. | :09:18. | :09:19. | |
Well, the Environment Agencx, really, because they licensdd it | :09:20. | :09:21. | |
and knew the tonnage that was supposed to be maxhmum | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
The Environment Agency is now footing the majority | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
Three truck-loads down, hundreds more to go. | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
Up to ten loads a day over the next 20 weeks, | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
but at the end of that time, the rubbish mountain should be gone. | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
It will be transported a short distance to a facility locally, | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
So we'll look to take out any soil that we can recover, | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
things like metal, wood and plastic, and recycle as much as we c`n. | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
The heat generated by the rtbbish reaches hundreds of | :09:47. | :09:48. | |
It will take five months to complete. | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
But this time for the residdnts the coming and going | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
Now, let's take a look at the weather for the next few days | :09:56. | :10:07. | |
Rachel, its getting chilly overnight. | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
Yes, that is right. In the next few days, temperatures rarely cooling | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
down in the afternoon and also over me. A bright start of the d`y but we | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
have had more close range dtring the afternoon. But as a cold front and | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
we hold on to the cloud durhng the first part of this evening. But it | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
clears. In clear skies, temperatures fall to laws of three and four as we | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
start the day on Wednesday. We have this area of high pressure. The | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
winds will be light on an north-westerly direction. There is a | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
cool feel by the afternoon. Temperatures struggling to get out | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
of single figures. Highs of minor ten. On Monday, highs of 20. It is a | :10:50. | :10:56. | |
lot cooler. On Wednesday into Thursday, a chilly picture. | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
Temperatures in rural sports dropping below freezing. Here is the | :11:00. | :11:01. | |
outlook in couple of days, frosty mornings | :11:02. | :11:02. | |
before turning | :11:03. | :11:03. |