24/10/2016 South Today

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I'm Sally Taylor and welcome to South Today.

An inquest into the tragic tale of Marion Munns who fell

The ?10 billion problem, the hidden healthcare crisis

which is wrecking lives and threatening

Five weeks, you could have lost a leg by then.

Into a tail-spin, shock tod`y as this air woman is strippdd

of an award amid claims she used a co-pilot

And party like it is the 60s, the old rockers who are touring

the venues they first visitdd more than half a century ago.

Southern Health, the troubldd NHS trust criticised for failing

to investigate hundreds of deaths of mental health patients,

faced new questions today as an inquest began into thd death

Her family says Marion Munns was becoming increasingly dhstressed

but did not receive the support expected from the trust.

Eventually, she fled her hole and fell to her death

Our Health Correspondent David Fenton is at Southern Health's

David, it's clear, isn't it, that Mrs Munns was very ill indeed?

She was, Sally. She had depression and psychosis and this really was

the story of a woman becoming progressively more and more ill

whose family could see that and were worried by it, but whose doctors

were being told by Mrs Munns that she was OK when clearly she was far

from it. Over four months last year,

Marion Munns behaviour becale But when she saw Southern Hdalth

doctors, she said everything Her daughter Kim told the inquest

one psychiatrist offered to assess Mrs Munns,

but only over the phone Giving evidence at the inqudst

the family said there had bden no plan of care for Mrs Munns

and they they had been existing week by week as her behaviour became more

and more erratic and worrying. On the night of 12th Novembdr,

Mrs Munns became so agitated at home she had to be pinned to the ground

while her family called But she escaped and

fled into the night. Mrs Munns went to this bridge over

the M27 and then fell The pathologist said she wotld have

died immediately from Blood tests showed she had not taken

any of her antipsychotic. medication for the last

five or six days. David, the inquest heard evhdence of

the trust failing to help the family on the night that Mrs Munns died?

Well, that's right. The famhly called Mrs Munns' care workdr on the

night she died only to be told the office was closing because ht was

5pm. That care worker will be giving evidence at the inquest tomorrow

along with psychiatrists and other Southern Health staff and it is

fairly clear, I think, that the family's legal team are going to be

cross-examining them on those very issues. Sally, the inquest hn

Winchester resumes tomorrow. David, thank you very much.

It costs an incredible 10% of the NHS' entire budget,

a whopping ten billion pounds every year.

And the issue of diabetes is a growing problem

across the region, with somd areas on the south coast amongst the worst

hit in the country for diabdtes related amputations.

There are 158,000 people with diabetes in the Hampshhre,

Gosport is now the seventh worst area in the country for diabetes

South East Hampshire has the sixth worst figures.

And Southampton now has the fifth worst figures in the countrx

with more than four amputees for every thousand

When diabetic Mark Burden from Dorset noticed a small

black mark on his toe, he visited his local A

I was told to go away and m`ke an appointment to see the dhabetic

foot clinic which we did as soon as it was open and by that

time it was probably already too late.

It was already becoming a big problem.

Despite a year on antibiotics, and an arterial bypass,

Mark's leg couldn't be saved and had to be amputated.

It had got to the point where I wanted it because I had been

in hospital for so long, having little bits of my tod and my

foot cut about that the ampttation was the most comfortable

and quickest option to get le back out of the hospital

All diabetics like Mark shotld get regular foot checks,

but campaign groups say this isn't happening.

We know that about 20% of people haven't had

A further 1% haven't been asked to take their shoes and socks off

If you don't understand your risk, you can't do anything about it.

Dorset Healthcare Universitx NHS Foundation Trust said high-risk

patients were seen when clinically appropriate which usually mdans

Five weeks, you could already have lost a leg by then.

Their system doesn't work for me and I pressume a lot

Earlier this afternoon I had the chance to have a longer

chat with Jill Steaton, from Diabetes UK, and I started

by asking her why a comparatively affluent area, like the south coast,

should have such high figurds for diabetes-related amputations?

Well, it is probably quite complex because amputations are performed

because people have poor control of their diabetes over

We need to make sure that pdople with diabetes are given the support

to manage their diabetes so they don't develop complhcations

in the first place, but if they do get problems,

we need to make sure that the right things are in place.

We need to make sure that pdople are having their annual foot checks

and they are given the right advice based on that.

If they have got problems they should be referred to foot

protection teams and to multidisciplinary foot care teams

and we know a number of places have been slow to put those

foot protections teams and multidiscipline foot care

When you go to see a doctor, you would expect that.

Is this down to doctors not checking people properly?

Or is it down to people's lhfestyles because there are two

Everyone with diabetes should have their feet checked

If they have got problems, they go more than that.

It is usually a practise nurse who is doing that foot check.

We know that a number of people who go to have their feet checked

don't get asked to take thehr shoes and socks off and get asked how

They need to have their foot looked at and their nerves tested

and their pulses checked and to make sure everything is working `ll right

and if it is not working all right, they need to be referred

to a specialist team as quickly as possible to get the care

they need and sometimes those foot teams are not in place.

So at Diabetes UK, are you concerned at what the figures show?

It's always worrying when fhgures increasing and amputation r`tes

are rising in some areas and people with diabetes are rising

which is also going to incrdase the number of amputations so yes,

it is very worrying that we have this problem.

What we need to do is make sure that the NHS services,

a clinical commissioning groups who commission services makd sure

that they don't get complacdnt about some figures improving

and actually really invest in future.

There's more on this on Inshde Out on BBC One tonight at 7.30pl.

There is a key vote this evdning on proposals for three

of the biggest councils along the Solent to join forces.

Portsmouth and Southampton have already said they want

to have a combined authoritx which would have its

Last week the Isle of Wight council narrowly rejected the plan,

but the final decision rests with the Executive which has

Later on South Today, success for British Athletes

as thousands took to the streets of Portsmouth in the Great South

She became the poster girl for female aviators everywhdre.

Tracey Curtis-Taylor, who dubbed herself the "Bird

in a Biplane", was lauded for her solo trip from Cape Town

Later, she flew from Farnborough, in Hampshire, to Sydney,

But she has been stripped of an award for her Cape Town

flight in a row over whether she used a co-pilot

She is one of the most celebrated women in aviation who traversed the

globe in this open cockpit by plane. Now one of Tracey Curtis-Taxlor s

previous expeditions is unddr a cloud. Three years ago she flew

10,000 miles across Africa supposedly alone. But this weekend,

the light aircraft associathon confirmed members voted to rescind a

prestigious trophy for solo flying. The row began after a key tdam

member Sam Rutherford claimdd Tracey Curtis-Taylor only flew a slall part

of the journey solo. He told the BBC that on that basis, he had `dvised

her not to accept awards, btt was ignored. Tracey Curtis-Taylor is a

celebrated aviation, who was emulating Lady Mayor's crossing of

Africa. She was uncontactable today, but says:

But in the uncompromising aviation world, definitions tend to be set in

stone. Solo means what it s`ys. You are the only person in the cockpit.

If the flight is half an hotr, and you're the only person in there

that's solo. Equally, sever`l thousand hours flying around the

world is also solo. Floss ldgal minimum to call it solo. Thd legal

definition means that you h`ve to be the only person in the cockpit.

The row has not affected Tr`cey Curtis-Taylor's passion for flying.

Last year she completed a 14,00 mile three month flight frol

Farnborough to Australia. Only last month her latest endeavour to fly

across the US ended suddenlx in the arropeb za desert and there could be

rough weather ahead for her retractors as she says she hs

considering legal action. Unions were summoned to Parliament,

this afternoon, to give evidence to MPs about the Southern R`il

strike which has caused chaos for commuters in Sussex,

Surrey and Hampshire. Our Political Reporter Mark Coles

followed the meeting and johns us Well, Sally it was mostly ddtailed

technical evidence about thd wider impacts of rail franchises, but the

chairman asked a question, what are the prospects, she said, for a

resolution of the Southern Rail dispute? Mick Cash from the RMT took

the bait and said, "I want ` meeting with the transport secretarx. He

said the problem lies as much with the department as the company that

runs Southern Rail." What I can t understand is why MPs who rdpresent

constituents of southern constituents are prepared to accept

less for their constituents than what we've got in Scotland, what

we've got in Great Western `nd on the East Coast. So the ball is

firmly in the DFT's hands and I m hoping they will sit down whth us

because we put viable soluthons to them and I hope we can get `round a

table and solve it. One of the MPs, the Sussex MP, wasn't having any of

that. He rounded on Mr Cash and said he was playing politics. In

exceptional circumstances, when it is safe to operate the train, as it

is on 40% of the network, I want to go home rather than wait another

hour. I don't think it is s`fe for people to have to get off the train

and not be able to leave thd station. So, to me, your issue about

safety is gamesmanship and H put it to you what this really comds down

to, if your members are not critical to the operation of that tr`in then

all of a sudden when you call a strike it doesn't make any

difference. Needless to say the union leaders disagreed. Thdy said

rail privatisation has been a spectacular failure and the dispute

about conductors on Southern Rail was evidence that rail franchising

wasn't working. Mark, thank you very much.

Work to carve a new badge into a hillside at Fovant

The Flanders poppy, which is 25 metres across,

sits alongside eight other regimental badges.

It's the first new chalk emblem since 1970, and marks the 100th

It's a building which has bden around since Tudor times.

A mansion once owned by one of Henry VIII's most senior advisers.

But, perhaps rather approprhately, it's losing its head.

The roof of The Vyne mansion, in Basingstoke,

They're giving King Henry VHII a professional deep clean bdfore

The Tudor monarch made several visits to the Vyne.

The property houses a collection of art and furniture

dating back 500 years, but two years ago water leaked in.

It is 150 years since the l`st major work on the roof so now

the National Trust is starthng a ?5 million restoration project.

We know this was once part of a major Tudor mansion.

Henry came here at least three times.

Twice with Catherine of Aragon and once with Ann Berlin.

We know that everyone learns Tudors when at school so Henry VIIH,

that iconic historical figure and we want to make sure

that we preserve this buildhng because it has been here for over

500 years and we want to make sure that people learning the Tudors

in years to come will have ` chance to step in the footsteps

of when Henry came here with Ann Berlin.

They will rebuild collapsing chimneys and crumbling parapets

We will have the opportunitx to look at a lot of the detail

of the carpentry and constrtction and we will be able to see how

someone from the 16th century was thinking about how

they would configure a roof of this size.

The lawn around the house is being discovered with

Stone work is being protectdd with wooden casing and everx paving

stone to be lifted is being numbered so it can be precisely

Inside the roof, they have tncovered marks, carved for

What we have got here is a protective mark.

It was believed at that timd demons and witches could enter the building

and by using the circle marks, they are common on churches known

as consercration crosses, it was believed they could

keep the bad spirtsz from out of the building.

The superstitious markings have inspired the charity to start

a fund-raising project towards the restoration costs.

People can draw their own ddpictions on the back of the new roof tiles.

The Vyne have stay open throughout the 18 month project and visitors

will be able to go on an aerial walkway to get a bird's eye view

Something I didn't know was interesting was those circlds.

The sun shone for thousands of runners from across the region

at yesterday's Great South Run in Portsmouth.

It was the 27th staging of `n event which has been in the city now

for more than a quarter of a century, and there was plenty

There hasn't been a British winner in the men's race at the Grdat South

Run since Mo Farah in 2009. But Chris Thompson produced a fhne run

to outpace his local rival to take victory over ten miles. The

conditions so often treacherous on a Sunday in October, played to the

elite athletes favour. Thompson at 35, turned the tables on Olxmpian

Vernon, the pair finished in the reverse order last week in

Birmingham. The winning margin 6 seconds. A British one and two,

three was completed through Matt Sharp in. In the women's race, this

athlete had a great South Rtn debut to remember. She outpaced hdr rivals

by a minute with a sprint fhnish to claim victory. But for so m`ny

others this run was about r`ising funds for charity. 25,000 would take

part in events this weekend and many more will be inspired. It is amazing

how many people have been pdrsuaded over the years to get involved and

take part. We had a AK yestdrday and many hundreds of those will go on

and tackle the ten miler next year. Yeah, it is brilliant. Even in

places you expect to be quidt, there is kids with bowls of sweets and

people playing loud music and when you hear your name, you get a spring

in your step. I would do it again. Next year will be the 28th staging

of this event. The Great Run proving great for Portsmouth too.

Meanwhile an appeal has gond out for anyone who might have found

an engagement ring which has been in a family for generations.

Lee Mallon from Bournemouth posted this on social media,

the ring was lost somewhere on the course yesterday

Southampton ended a run of six consecutive defeats

at Manchester City with a point at the Etihad yesterday.

Saints took the lead when Nathan Redmond seized on a poor

back pass from John Stones to put Claude Puel's men in front.

Stones had a goal disallowed for off-side before the bre`k.

Then after half time Kelechi Ihenacho levelled things up.

Saints are eightth and feelhng good despite a busy period of fixtures.

They have been on a bit of a tough run at the moment,

but we have been in good form and it was just about taking

a positive mindset into the game and once we went 1-0 up we felt

a little bit comfortable, btt it is still a difficult place to come

We're going to take it as a positive and take into the Cup

The main talking point at Bournemouth was an appardnt elbow

by Moussa Sissoko in the face of midfielder Harry Arter, Sissoko

Edie Howe said he was even happier than after the 6-1 win over Hull

last week as the Cherries, who hit the bar through

This was the incident involving Arter for which Sissoko now

Here's the main talking points in the Football League.

Brighton made their names l`st season with a number of low scoring

wins and they rode their luck at times at Wigan to gain

That's David Stockdale being very alert.

The manager felt they gave the ball away too much,

but when in possession, Dale Stevens has

That sweet effort sends the Albion into second.

Their third of the season, victory for them at Rotherh`m,

could have been more comfortable, but when awarded a second h`lf

No matter, late in the game, Paul McShane showed the kind

of calmness you'd expect from a striker to net the whnner.

It is Arsenal tomorrow in the EFL Cup at the Emirates.

Portsmouth suffered their sdcond consecutive home defeat,

Notts County pinching the ldad through Adam Campbell.

On Friday, Pompeii announced teenager Conor Chaplin had dxtended

That's good news and he celdbrated with that goal.

But Campbell was to upstage him on the day, coolly finishing with 20

minutes to go and County lost a man for this rash challenge herd,

but they kept Paul Cook's shde at bay and Pompeii are fifth ahead

Guildford Flames stormed to a 5 1 win over local rivals

Basingstoke Bison last night in the English Premier Leagte.

Over the weekend Basingstokd extended their unbeaten homd run

to four games when they beat Sheffield 5-3.

Dan Lackey and recent signing Jan Jarabek on target

Bracknell prop up the table after two defeats.

A man from Bracknell has scooped the top prize

in the Landscape Photographdr of the Year Awards.

Matthew Cattell's shot of starlings swirling around the remains

of Brighton's West Pier beat thousands of entries

Judges likened the picture to the tornado in the Wizard of Oz

Wow. Not bad. It is a superb photo. She is back. She is better. She is

on the sofa. Nice to see yot. Are you all right? I'm good, th`nk you.

By the weekend, there is gohng to be lots of sunshine.

Autumn leaves at Baffins Pond in Portsmouth sent in by

These "traffic light style trees" at Harcourt Arboretum

in Oxford were photographed by Gemma Seaman And Michael Miklos

captured this aerial view of Goodwood House.

Low pressure dominates our weather. High pressure will take charge from

Thursday onwards. We may have outbreaks of rain murky each

morning. The winds will change direction from an easterly flow to a

westerly flow tomorrow night and high pressure will start to build in

from Thursday. So there is ` risk we could have one or two showers. There

is a lot of dry weather as well and we may have some low, cloud and mist

and fog in places with tempdratures falling in the countryside to around

eight or nine Celsius. So there will be a few showers with us tolorrow

morning. It is a grey start, a lot of low cloud which will lift into

higher cloud and sunny spells will make an appearance, but there will

be a lot of cloud. Temperattres reaching a high of 13 Celsits to 15

Celsius. With the light easterly winds. Through tomorrow evening and

overnight tomorrow night, the winds will change a westerly air flow

There will abgood deal of cloud and mist and fog. Tomorrow night should

be dry with the light easterly winds. Through the course of

Wednesday, the winds will change direction further bringing hn that

milder air from the Atlantic and with it, a fair amount of cloud but

there will be some sunny spdlls brightness in places with hhghs of

14 Celsius to 15 Celsius. Gradually temperatures are starting

to creep up because high prdssure establishes itself over the south of

the country. Thursday will be settled. Maim dry with sunnx spells

after a misty and a murky start Friday morning, there is thd chance

we could have a touch of frost particularly out in the countryside

with temperatures reaching ` high of 14 Celsius. Ahead to the wedkend

with high pressure in chargd of our weather, there maybe mist and fog

during the morning and frost overnight.

A bit like the Rolling Stonds, a 1960s Soul Band is celebr`ting

Now Ricky and The Gamblers have begun a tour, but unlike Mick,

Keith, Ronnie and Charlie, ht's not the big stadiums but the old village

They've a combined age in excess of more than three centuries.

They began their tour recently at the Ecchinswell Village Hall

The swinging 60s, the time of the Beatles, the beehive

and believe it or not Ricky and The Gamblers.

To go out as a 12-year-old `nd then - 13 and 14 to those villagd halls

all those years ago was just for us, amazing.

People would come from miles around, wouldn't they?

Most village halls, they wotld be packed and it sounds big-he`ded

but they seemed to come to see us more than any other band

Well, there is some good news for those fans because Rickx

As all the musicians will s`y once it's in you, it's in

The band made their name in village halls across Berkshire.

Lots of our school friends were spending their Saturdaxs

We were rehearsing, planning to go to Southampton or Brighton

You would have thought it is time to do some gardening and walk along

the beach with the dog and sit back and relax,

but you're back here out on the road again, why?

Ricky and The Gamblers say they can't wait to get back to doing

what they love and that's mtsic and back on a journey down

Ricky and The Gamblers will next be playing on 3rd December in the Shaw

That's it from us. More at 8pm and 10.30pm. We're back tomorrow at

6.30pm. Join us if you can. Good night.