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Gove and Labour's Brexit Secretary Kier Starmer as well. Join me now on | :00:00. | 3:59:59 | |
BBC Two. That's Newsnight Hello and welcome to | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
South Today, I'm Jo Kent. Standing down to take | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
a stand over budget cuts - an authority loses leading | :00:07. | :00:12. | |
councillors who say austerity And the hospital struggling to cope, | :00:13. | :00:14. | |
as hundreds of operations are cancelled because its beds | :00:15. | :00:21. | |
are already full. And this week, mid-week | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
we will have a frost but towards the end of the week | :00:27. | :00:28. | |
it turns cloudier. It's a dramatic gesture intended | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
to draw attention to what they say The leader, deputy leader | :00:32. | :00:45. | |
and another senior member of the Isle of Wight Council have | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
stepped down from their posts They say party politics and ego | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
are being put ahead of the best But the move could have wider | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
repercussions and may sink plans for a devolved "super authority" | :00:59. | :01:05. | |
in charge of the island as well as These resignation have sent shock | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
waves well beyond the Isle of Wight. Jonathan Bacon, leader | :01:09. | :01:18. | |
of the Isle of Wight Council, They're part of the independent | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
group that swept to power four years ago, promising | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
"people before politics". But they've struggled, | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
particularly in the face Jonathan Bacon was blunt | :01:29. | :01:30. | |
in his resignation statement. He said that it seems the Government | :01:31. | :01:36. | |
has no wish or intent to help this island, | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
despite the council's asking And he's bitter about the way fellow | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
councillors have behaved, saying party politics and ego | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
are being put before the concerns Today his deputy, Steve Stubbings, | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
told us austerity cuts were causing It would only be someone that's | :01:51. | :01:57. | |
wedded to the Government's austerity agenda that could, | :01:58. | :02:04. | |
I presume, with any real dignity or honesty carry | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
through these policies, I don't believe in them and I think | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
people are being really damaged by what's going on, | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
and a lot of those people are people Today's resignations | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
mean plans to create the Solent Super Authority, | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
where the Isle of Wight, Portsmouth and Southampton come | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
together under one elected mayor, Though the island was an important | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
part, Portsmouth's leader, Donna Jones, says the two cities | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
could continue on their own. I do believe the Government still | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
want to continue with devolution. They're still focused on elected | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
mayors and I think the two cities here on the south coast absolutely | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
have a right to go and talk to the Government about the ?1 | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
billion of investment that we need. The Isle of Wight Council meets | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
on Wednesday to select a new leader. There's a strong chance they won't | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
support a Super Authority. But whoever it is, they can | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
expect an early visit from the council leaders | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
in Southampton and Portsmouth. Meanwhile, hospital care on the Isle | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
of Wight is in chaos. Virtually all planned surgery has | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
been cancelled in recent weeks because all the beds are being used | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
to deal with emergency patients. 267 routine operations have been | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
postponed since before Christmas, and there's little sign | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
of the pressure easing. Here's our health | :03:26. | :03:27. | |
correspondent, David Fenton. Every one of its 252 beds is taken | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
and there are 31 emergency From Christmas Day onwards, | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
it's been busier than I think Over time we've got better | :03:38. | :03:44. | |
at dealing with surges in capacity and turning our patients round, | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
and in spite of that we've had very large numbers of patients | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
into the hospital and we've really Many patients, of | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
course, are elderly. Craig has a heart condition | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
and lives on his own but he'd The charity Age UK found him at home | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
without heat or light, with no food in the house | :04:09. | :04:16. | |
and no money. We're also seeing a lot | :04:17. | :04:18. | |
of homelessness, particularly We work with people aged 50 | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
and over and that's becoming So where previously we would have | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
done more low-level support - shopping and befriending - | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
we really are now going out and keeping people fed and warm | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
and making sure that they can get The older we get, | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
the more we cost the NHS. The average 20-year-old | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
costs the health service For someone in their mid-50s, that's | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
doubled to more than ?2,000 a year. And by the time we reach 85, | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
it's risen to nearly ?8,000 a year. It all adds up to a financial | :04:53. | :04:59. | |
time bomb for the NHS, that now needs to save ?2.2 billion | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
in the South. Sean Stacey is Chief Operations | :05:04. | :05:12. | |
Officer at St Mary's Hospital, the man charged with keeping | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
the plates spinning. A short time ago, he told me one | :05:17. | :05:18. | |
reason for the current problems is the number of holiday-makers | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
who've been taken ill. We've opened additional capacity, | :05:22. | :05:36. | |
we've created more beds for patients, in areas that would not | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
normally be used as a ward area, such as Aaron Teys surgical unit, | :05:41. | :05:47. | |
and also a discharge lounge. -- our day surgical unit. That means we've | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
had to cancel planned procedures for here -- for people here on the | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
island and I'm sorry we've had to make that decision but clearly where | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
would be unsafe to bring somebody in would be unsafe to bring somebody in | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
for a planned procedure when the hospital is full of people who are | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
acutely very unwell. The fact that the situation has arisen, could it | :06:08. | :06:17. | |
be put down to a lack of money or management? I don't think it is | :06:18. | :06:19. | |
purely a lack of money. I do think there is a need for us to look at | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
how we invest funds in the future. We certainly need to strengthen | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
resources out in our communities. We particularly need to help and work | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
very closely with our colleagues in adult social care so they have the | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
funds and resources to help to look after and care for people when they | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
are feeling a bit under the weather. That will help, I think. That will | :06:40. | :06:47. | |
require some investment. That investment is going to be a pressure | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
for all of us. But I do believe that would make a difference to the | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
hospital services and the demands that are currently being seen to be | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
made on those. Thank you very much. Relatives of a man killed by a van | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
driver who was texting at the wheel say they're outraged he's been | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
allowed to appeal against his Grandfather Lee Martin | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
died when he was struck The driver, Christopher Gard, | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
had a string of previous convictions He'd had several chances | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
to change his ways, but Christopher Gard was again | :07:18. | :07:26. | |
using his phone when he ploughed into cyclist | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
Lee Martin and killed him. Just weeks before, he was in court | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
pleading that he needed to keep his In all, he'd been caught | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
using his phone at the wheel eight The family of Lee Martin say it's | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
time to end the sympathy. You had eight chances beforehand | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
to stop your behaviour, It's playing Russian roulette | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
with the whole population, really. What was going to stop him apart | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
from killing someone? He'd taken up cycling | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
to improve his health. He was on the A31 near Alton one | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
August morning in 2015 when Gard Police say Gard was so busy | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
sending a text message, he hadn't looked at the carriageway | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
for a full nine seconds. He only changed his plea to guilty | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
just before the trial started. He dragged a whole family | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
through the process of thinking we had to sit through a court case | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
and, you know, he's taken someone's life, he's taken my brother's life, | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
and this bloke is now trying to wheedle his way out of it, | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
and I want there to be justice for my brother and also, | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
you know, what kind of signal does it send out | :08:32. | :08:33. | |
if the sentence is reduced? The Martin family are now calling | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
for an immediate ban for anyone Christopher Gard's case | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
will be heard at the Court That's all from the South Today | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
news team this evening. We're back tomorrow with bulletins | :08:47. | :08:54. | |
in BBC Breakfast and there's more Through the course of this week we | :08:55. | :09:12. | |
are going to see a frost. A chilly start the week, turning slightly | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
milder from Thursday onwards and through until the weekend. High | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
pressure dominating through much of the week. It should be mainly dry | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
and there will be a frost tonight and also tomorrow morning. Through | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
the course of tonight, we're expecting more cloud. The further | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
west you are, the clearer the sky is towards the south-east, and we may | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
have a frosty there first thing. Quite a cloudy start for western | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
parts with the cloud gradually moving westwards to allow for some | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
lovely sunny conditions for western parts. Oxfordshire hanging on to the | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
cloud through the afternoon but in the sunshine temperatures will | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
struggle to rise, with highs of just three degrees. Along the coast, | :09:54. | :10:00. | |
highs of 6-7. A widespread, sharp, hard frost developing in the early | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
hours of Wednesday courtesy of the light wind and clear skies. In the | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
countryside, we could see those of -1 or minus two. High-pressure still | :10:11. | :10:17. | |
dominating Wednesday into Thursday with sunny spells and a bit more | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
cloud for northern areas, which could sink southwards through the | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
afternoon. High-pressure still in charge on Thursday with a fair | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
amount of cloud and weather front moving southwards. With that, we | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
could have the odd spot of rain but most places staying dry with high | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
pressure in charge. Through Friday, we hold onto the high pressure as | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
well. A similar data Thursday. Milder than recent days, with highs | :10:45. | :10:51. | |
of 5-8. -- a similar day is on Thursday. Over the weekend, looking | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
ahead, mainly dry, quite cloudy with brighter spells here and there. The | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
risk of the odd spot of light rain and drizzle | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
perhaps a little milder. If you like the mild weather, you'll have to | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
head elsewhere in the country. Find out more in the national weather | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
forecast. Our weather is going against normal expectations this | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
week. In Highland Scotland some snow to be seen on the hills. | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
Temperatures as high as 12 Celsius today. Over the next few days the | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
coldest air is in the far south-east of England where there is sunshine | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
to be had. Four or five Celsius in Kent. Differences remain over the | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
next few days and here is why. I pressure in control of the weather. | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
Some clear a continental air, but coming into Scotland from the | :11:41. | :11:47. | |
Atlantic plenty of clouds around. Outbreaks of rain through Scotland | :11:48. | :11:50. | |
and Northern Ireland overnight, patchy drizzle into parts of England | :11:51. | :11:57. | |
and Wales, but where you've got cloud the temperatures are holding | :11:58. | :11:58. |