:00:15. > :00:16.I'm Laura Trant with the news in the south.
:00:17. > :00:19.That confession, recorded sdcretly by police, was played to
:00:20. > :00:23.a jury today at the trial of two men accused of using a speedboat to
:00:24. > :00:28.Paul Gerlach and Louis Borzoni claimed that Rico Dardis didd
:00:29. > :00:32.in an accident while the three men were on a drunken boat
:00:33. > :00:37.Roger Finn reports from Winchester Crown Court.
:00:38. > :00:41.Rico Dardis, who was 30 years old and a father, died on the Whitsun
:00:42. > :00:45.He had joined a boat trip from Christchurch together with
:00:46. > :00:49.Louis Borzoni and Paul Gerl`ch, owner of the boat No Chance.
:00:50. > :00:52.His dismembered body was fotnd beside the boat when the other two
:00:53. > :00:58.The prosecution say Gerlach and Borzoni deliberately ran
:00:59. > :01:02.Today Paul Gerlach finished giving his evidence.
:01:03. > :01:05.He originally told the police that Rico Dardis had fallen off the boat
:01:06. > :01:12.Today he told the court that was not true.
:01:13. > :01:15.He said that Rico Dardis had viciously attacked him,
:01:16. > :01:21.He said that he and Louis Borzoni had pushed Rico Dardis off the boat.
:01:22. > :01:25.He had then circled the boat until the propeller stopped.
:01:26. > :01:28.The jury listened to a secrdt recording made by the policd who put
:01:29. > :01:45.a bug in Paul Gerlach's homd after they'd questioned him.
:01:46. > :01:48.Today Paul Gerlach said he had been telling lies to his wife.
:01:49. > :01:51.When asked why he said, I wanted to make myself look
:01:52. > :01:54.like this person couldn't do whatever he wanted to me.
:01:55. > :01:58.The prosecution claims another secret recording reveals
:01:59. > :02:00.Paul Gerlach colluding with Louis Borzoni to invent
:02:01. > :02:05.In the recording, Paul Gerl`ch is said to say, if we get away with it,
:02:06. > :02:19.The two men deny the charge of murder and the trial continues.
:02:20. > :02:21.The man accused of murdering Didcot teenager Jayden Parkinson h`d a
:02:22. > :02:24.history of violent and controlling relationships, a jury has hdard
:02:25. > :02:26.Ben Blakeley from Christchurch Road in Reading denies murdering
:02:27. > :02:32.On the second day of his trhal, the prosecution's claimed hd pushed
:02:33. > :02:36.a previous partner down the stairs when she was seven months' pregnant.
:02:37. > :02:41.Blakeley admits manslaughter but denies murder.
:02:42. > :02:43.A council watchdog has calldd for rapid improvements
:02:44. > :02:46.in the non`emergency ambulance service for Dorset.
:02:47. > :02:48.It's after hearing patients describe it
:02:49. > :02:51.as a "shambles" ` some have missed appointments and there've bden
:02:52. > :02:57.Patient transport gets people to and from hospital and used to bd run by
:02:58. > :03:02.Since October, it's now run by several private
:03:03. > :03:10.operators as part of introdtcing greater competition in the NHS.
:03:11. > :03:13.Victor Redwood needs kidney dialysis three times a week.
:03:14. > :03:15.For this he takes a Dorset nonemergency ambulance,
:03:16. > :03:20.an NHS service that was last year contracted to go to
:03:21. > :03:29.They were arriving late, getting you in all sorts of problems.
:03:30. > :03:32.And it is the not picking up after dialysis which is the worst bit
:03:33. > :03:38.Because that is when you fedl ill and that is when they arrivd late.
:03:39. > :03:42.Bournemouth`based E`zec provides this transport in Dorset.
:03:43. > :03:45.The Care Quality Commission has already criticised the comp`ny
:03:46. > :03:49.and Dorset County Council is also investigating.
:03:50. > :04:00.In a statement, E`zec acknowledged the difficulties, saying...
:04:01. > :04:06.Bob Champion's severely dis`bled daughter Michelle was kept waiting
:04:07. > :04:12.in a Salisbury hospital for 10 hours after a transport mix up.
:04:13. > :04:14.It is very, very distressing, not only for the patient but
:04:15. > :04:20.for the people around that `re trying to help because the
:04:21. > :04:24.It would have caused her a great deal of emotional anxiety,
:04:25. > :04:28.As Michelle is from Somerset, her transport was provided
:04:29. > :04:34.It accepts it was responsible for the journey
:04:35. > :05:18.and said it deeply regrets her experience and the distress caused.
:05:19. > :05:20.Sub`standard medical record keeping at Reading's Royal Berkshird
:05:21. > :05:23.Hospital could pose a threat to the safety of patients,
:05:24. > :06:46.The Care Quality Commission found the hospital was failing to meet
:06:47. > :07:34.with the summary. Turning more unsettled as we head towards the
:07:35. > :07:43.weekend. Good evening. After what has been a
:07:44. > :07:47.glorious few weeks of summer sunshine for many of us, things are
:07:48. > :07:52.about to change over the next 2 hours. We are seeing the change
:07:53. > :07:54.marked by the weather front on the satellite image. To the south of
:07:55. > :07:55.that,