24/06/2014 South Today

Inevitable, I suppose. That's all from the News at Six. Goodbye from

me. On BBC The classroom comes to

the hospital for children who still I did not expect this option, I was

over the moon when I found out. The daughter who battled for

recognition of her father and up for The error that's left

someone red faced. A council watchdog has calldd for

rapid improvements in the non emergency ambulance service for

Dorset after hearing patients describe it as a "shambles". Some

people have missed appointmdnts some transport hasn't arrivdd at all

and there've been shortages of staff and vehicles. Patient transport gets

people to and from hospital and used to be run by the South Westdrn

Ambulance Service. Since October, it's now run by several private

operators as part of introdtcing greater competition in the NHS. One

company looks after Wiltshire. NSL is the provider in Somerset where

there have been teething problems. Bob Champion likes to remember his

daughter, Michelle, in happher times before a major stroke last xear that

left her with little speech. He says, she was recently ldft

waiting ten hours to return to her care home after the hospital

treatment in Salisbury. All sorts of things,

different environment, It took three of us to hold her

and keep on the trolley that she Until October,

it was the South Western Ambulance Service that took nonemergency

patients to hospitals or back home. Since then, it has been private

firms that were doing the job. In Somerset,

there have been problems. NSL who run the service there

failed to meet three of the five standards on staffing,

management and ensuring people s There were reports of long delays

and ambulances reaching pathents A small minority of patients may

experience delays on any given day. The vast majority

of patients we deliver to their The CQC is continuing to

keep an eye on how patients are being

transported along Somerset roads. Only last week

in a follow`up inspection... They fail to meet most

of the watchdog 's basic st`ndards and that comes as no surprise to

patients like Victor Redwood who They were arriving late, getting

here early, all sorts of problems. Picking people up too early and

then not picking them up after dialysis. It is the not picking up

after dialysis which is the worst bit. That is when you feel hll

and that is when they arrivd late. As in Somerset,

the company responsible in Dorset admit there have been probldms

at the start but they say that Over the coming months

the watchdogs will be monitoring both companies in the hope that

patients like Michelle Champion will The Department

of Health declined to be interviewed but said it expects the loc`l

Clinical Commissioning Groups or CCG's to ensure providers ddliver

high quality patient transport. A short time ago I asked Jane Pike

from the Dorset CCG what had gone It certainly was not great

when we first put the service Since that time,

we have worked very hard with Ezec and our partners in Dorset to

improve the service for pathents. In the last few weeks we have seen

a significant improvement My question would be,

would you like to apologise and take this opportunity to

apologise to all those patidnts who have suffered and complained,

and called it a shambles? We have apologised publicly

and I am happy to apologise for the poor performance and

the poor service that patients. . If they have received

poor performance. We are working very hard to

ensure that does not continte. One of the things that you did say

was that this was a substantial You are giving more money to this

company to get them up and running, You are certainly paying for it

aren't you, When we first did

the original tender, we in good faith felt that would be th`t level

of activity for that servicd. What was clear from day one was that

we had underestimated that We are now putting more mondy

into the service that reflects We would have to do that

irrespective of To be fair,

you admit that you underesthmated. The clinical commissioning

groups are fairly new. Do you think that you were not

experienced enough to take on this? I think we were very

experienced to do that. We were doing

a very different service th`n we had Everybody in Dorset, our providers

and community providers, all agreed We were reliant on a number

of different areas for the information that we use to put

the contract together, the tender. Because of that disparate n`ture, we

underestimated the initial demand. We have worked very hard to ensure

that we are now metting that demand. The man accused of murdering Didcot

teenager, Jayden Parkinson, had a history of violent and controlling

relationships ` a jury has heard. Ben Blakeley from Christchurch Road

in Reading, denies murdering On the second day of his trhal,

the prosecution's claimed hd pushed a previous partner down the stairs

when she was seven months pregnant. The prosecution told the jury today

that Ben Blakeley had had a number of girlfriends in the past that he

was violent towards. It was in 007 when he was dating Kirsty Pdnnford

that she claims he pushed down the stairs when she was seven

months pregnant. He only allowed her to wear make`up to disguise bruises

on her face. He would regul`rly threaten to kill her when in a

temper. He went on to say that it was in 2011 that he was violent

towards yet another girlfridnd, significantly, he tried to strangle

her. The jury was told that Ben Blakeley often confiscated lobile

telephones and he was descrhbed as controlling. This afternoon, Hannah

Riding from the youth hostel here in Oxford city centre took the stand.

She described meeting Jayden Parkinson who was staying there as

being quiet and timid. She told the court that her boyfriend wotld not

let her have a shower or usd a The jury heard that it was

not long after this that Hannah Ryan helped Jayden Parkinson takd

a pregnancy test and it camd back positive. She talked about her phone

call to tell Ben Blakeley that he was the father of the baby. She was

repeating what Ben Blakeley was saying to her and that Hann`h Ryan

could hear. She told the cotrt, she was saying, what's that? If I am

pregnant you are going to ptsh me off a bridge? If you lay a finger on

me I will call the police. Ben Blakeley denies murder `nd his

trial continues. They claim that this land the night

`` died in an accident when they were on a drunken motorboat crews.

This man died on the Whitsun bank holiday last year. He had enjoyed a

bootstrap from Whitchurch. His despair body was found beside the

boat when it was brought ashore The prosecution said that the pder

deliberately ran him over. `` that the couple. He told the court today

that it was not true that hd had been run over by accident. He had

been viciously attacked. He said that he and his accomplice had

pushed the victim of the bo`t and then circled the boat until the

propeller stopped. The jury listened to a secret recording made by the

police. Today, he said that he had been

telling lies to his wife. When asked why, he said that he wanted to look

like a person that could do whatever he wanted to me. The prosecttion

claims that another secret recording shows the couple creating a story to

invent what happened. If we get away with it, we haven't have got away

with it. The two men denied the charge of murder.

An inquest has heard that an undercover police officer, who died

when his motorcycle hit a c`r in Southampton, was travelling around

PC Steve Rawson died in a collision on Thomas Lewis Way

An inquest today heard that his speed was the foremost factor

However the car driver had `lso been carrying out a prohibited rhght turn

Still to come... On target, the Redding athlete worth a shot at the

Commonwealth Games. That's the verdict on the p`ce

of progress at Winchester prison. After a damning report

in 2012 inspectors have been back to Their report reveals that though

some improvements have been made the prison is more dangerous th`n before

and has struggled to deal whth extra inmates from other prisons

in the south which have shut. Those prison inspections ard

unannounced but they knew that the inspectors would come calling after

serious concerns were raised in 2012. While there had been progress,

it was too little too late. The prison was more dangerous than it

had been before. What was bdtter was that relationships between prisoners

and staff were better and the place was cleaner than it had been before.

The governor said that the closure of prisons such as Dorchestdr has

presented challenges as Winchester accommodates a new mix of inmates.

He does not accept that progress has been too slow. I will always be

disappointed if an inspector comes in and we are not seen as a safe and

decent prison. We have workdd hard at improving relationships `nd

aspect around safety, less drugs and mobile phones, more support for

prisoners. We have not done everything. You have fielded 13 of

23 recommendations about safety We have what it is a very challenging

environment. We have not have young adults who are known as being more

violent and challenging. Mr Speth knows more than most about

Winchester. He served part of his sentencing and he now writes for the

newspaper. He showed that the government should be concerned about

poor conditions. If they le`ve, having been cooked up and

mistreated, been subject to violins, `` subject to violhns, then

you have to feel sorry for them The Chief Inspector of prisons dxpect to

see much greater progress when his team`mates and unannounced baton. ``

when his team`mates and unannounced return.

Sub`standard medical record keeping at Reading's Royal Berkshird

Hospital could pose a threat to the safety of patients,

The Care Quality Commission also found that a state

of the art maternity unit w`s understaffed ` a problem only picked

up after two babies were born in a poor condition.

The hospital has accepted the CQC's finding,

Georgina Thomas was being treated for a serious condition at the

Queen Alexandra hospital but was eventually allowed to sit

The Portsmouth hospital has a special tutor who helps 3,000

young people each year to kdep up with their studies `

but she says many schools don't know their responsibilities.

Georgina, when she had her dxams, she initially sat them with me

She was not well enough to sit them in school.

The teacher team at the hospital provide this service

We get a ?300 per year budgdt to fund all these children.

That ?300 per year has to buy stationery.

All the schools got softward, new gadgets, new resources.

Georgina was faced with defdrring her studies for one year.

She wanted to go to college with friends.

Thankfully, she has now completed most of our studies

The score is 0`0 with just ` couple than even more medical results.

The score is 0`0 with just ` couple of minutes to go in the gamd.

In cricket's County Championship, it's day three

In Division One, Sussex are facing defeat in a big

They've been set 492 to win, but slipped to 124 for 7.

Meanwhile at The Oval, Surrey's big first innings put them

in a commanding position against Leicestershire.

The visitors are following on, and still trail by 110.

Great Britain's Women's Whedlchair Basketball Team are

into the quarter finals of the World Championships in Canada.

With 15`year`old Joy Haizleden from Southampton in the teal,

they secured a 64`47 victorx over China in their penultimate game

They complete their round robin matches against hosts Canad`

tonight, before heading to the knockout section of the tournament.

Commonwealth Games in Glasgow next month, we've been to meet another of

the local competitors who'll be involved. Pistol shooter Krhstian

Callaghan hails from Reading, and Alistair Durden has been to see him

Kristian Callaghan is aiming for the middle of a target that is just

one centimetre in diameter, firing a pistol from ten metres aw`y.

He says that eating well and avoiding caffeine is vital to

having a steady arm and then it is about keeping your concentr`tion.

Most of shooting is in the lind in terms of keeping calm

There is always things that you can think about that will destroy

You need to know what it is that you want to thank, and what you don t

There are the mental tricks that we try to employ.

He has already won medals at junior level and broken British records.

His natural aptitude for the sport has come as a bit

No one in my family or my husband's family shoots.

I am the sort of mum that would not even let him play with ` gun.

He began winning competitions and he was getting very consistent

We had to find him a proper shooting club.

Those classes cost several hundred pounds.

You can easily spend ?80 on ammunition every weekend.

Plus he has to fit it all wdnt around his university life.

He is doing an engineering degree in Bath.

He says that the sacrifice will be worth it

That is definitely achievable the way I have been going.

From here, winning a medal is not impossible.

Good luck to them. Looking forward to that next month.

All good things come to those who wait ` and today

For more than two decades, she's campaigned for a memorial to

all those from Portsmouth khlled in the Second World War.

The memorial was built and names slowly added `

but Jean had to wait a further three years because the list is

alphabetical and the father she lost at Dunkirk was called Harry Short.

Let's join Sarah Farmer in Portsmouth.

This war memorial is nearly `` needing completion. At ?9,000

apiece, each of the Stones beers and names of more than 100 servhce men

and women killed in World W`r II from Portsmouth. It is thanks to one

lady determined to see this project through from start to finish. 2

years of campaigning and thd legacy of 3000. She has worked tirdlessly

for a memorial in Portsmouth to recognise those who were killed in

World War II. She felt compdlled to launch the campaign in 1999 when she

discovered that Portsmouth only had the full monument to those who lost

their lives in the First World War. It had to be done. It was wrong that

had to be righted, I am surd he agree. Every other city havd got the

war memorials. A big city lhke Portsmouth, nor memorial. It was

shocking. In 2005 this memorial was unveiled and since 2011, thd stone

plaques were erected one by one An alphabetical roll call of the local

heroes. Three years later, her wait to see her father 's name is over.

Harry Short, a soldier killdd in Dunkirk. I know my mum would be

proud that she is not with ts any more. My family are overjoydd that I

have actually achieve this. That is the grandad that they never knew.

Across two decades of campahgning, she has seen support from pdople in

Portsmouth, and across the country. She has received support from people

like Dame Vera Lynn who recognise how hard work and commitment. I do

think there should be a montment to the men and women of Portsmouth and

I think you are doing the rhght thing in trying to get interest and

sponsorship in this appeal, I wish you luck. The home of the Royal Navy

was a target for the Germans during the war. Hundreds died at home and

thousands abroad. Each of them soon to be remembered. She may bd a key

part of Johnny is far from over There are still 12 names of military

personnel to add. She says she is determined to continue that

fundraising until she has added all 1400 civilians who were also killed

during the Second World War. An inspirational lady. Thank you very

much. That is wonderful. Ginny Boxall took this lovely photo

of the sun setting last night over a dew on poppies in a field ndar

Basingstoke. And we this this is a young starling

chosing its drink wisely in the warm sunshine. This photo was taken by

Syd Harth in Bournemouth. We had someone weather todax. `` we

had some warm weather. Throtgh the course of the night, cool and

cloudy. The cloud will start to move on and there could be the odd shower

here and there. Clear spells before it arrives. The showers will be

mainly light and patchy in nature. The weather front is weakenhng.

Temperatures similar to last night. The hero will be fresher so it'll be

blessed humid. More rain tolorrow morning. Elsewhere, some cloud.

Sunny spells during the aftdrnoon. Top temperature of 20 Celsits.

Temperatures will be lower than today because of the fresher air

moving in. It would be more pleasant for sleeping. Temperatures `round 11

or 12 Celsius. Down to eight or 9 degrees in the countryside. And

mainly dry start of the day on Thursday. That is where things

change. We will start to sed low`pressure swinging from the

Atlantic. It will bring the various weather fronts to waters on Friday

and the weekend. `` towards others. There's the risk some thunddrstorms.

Some decent amounts of sunshine tomorrow. The odd stray shower. Most

places staying dry with somd very high pollen levels. That saxs Barack

Obama. It is made to be Chrhs Smalling. The company that produces

it got the wrong photograph. It is the most famous man on the planet

and they put it on there as Chris Smalling.

The company that made the error in production wish to remain anonymous,

but once the mistake was discovered, a stock clearance wholesaler based

in Poole, bought the mugs cheaply, and has subsequently been inundated