28/03/2017 South Today


28/03/2017

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Hello, good evening, I'm Tom Hepworth.

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Coming up on South Today: The private units making

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money for our hospitals, but is it at the expense

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The fly-tippers targeting the New Forest, leaving potentially

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hazardous waste in the National Park.

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Health managers at the South's hospitals are increasingly investing

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in facilities for private patients as a way of plugging

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At Southampton General, it generated ?5 million while the QA

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Hospital in Portsmouth treated 1,000 private patients.

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Our health correpondent, David Fenton, sent this report

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from a new private unit opening at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital.

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An empty bed, and you don't see many of those in NHS

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hospitals, but this bed is for private patients only.

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Within the unit, we have four ensuite bedrooms fully

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equipped with satellite TVs, and we have a treatment room

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All of the proceeds of any private practices undertaken

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here at the Bournemouth private clinic all goes back

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into the NHS to fund equipment, staffing, facilities.

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So every single penny comes back into the NHS.

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And this treatment room I'm very, very proud of.

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This unit will treat about 800 patients a year -

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He is on a trial drug that's not available on the NHS.

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I think they've done an amazing job with not just myself

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But having that private opportunity as well,

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if you can get the money and the funding, like myself,

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It may sound strange, treating private patients

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inside public hospitals, but it's a way of bringing

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much-needed cash into the NHS - ?4 million for this hospital alone.

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This is about offering local people a choice between NHS

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What we know is that there are still a significant number

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of people that actually want private care.

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And the first private patients will begin arriving next week.

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Well, I asked the chief executive whether he could really promise that

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NHS patients would not suffer because of the work that's

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No NHS patient should be displaced as a consequence of the private

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So no delays, no problems, no lack of staff, anything like that?

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No, what we've seen over the years, actually, is our private services

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OK, finally, what are you going to spend the money on?

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So what we are going to do is we are going to buy more

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state-of-the-art equipment and kits that will enable us

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to provide a wider range of services to NHS patients.

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This is becoming big business now for many,

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many hospitals in the NHS and I think they believe that,

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as long as the money goes back into the NHS to help patients,

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David Fenton, BBC South Today in Bournemouth.

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A law student's gone on trial for the killing of a father of ten

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on the Isle of Wight with a single punch.

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Gary Stacey died from brain injuries after a night

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21-year-old Ryan Cooper denies manslaughter,

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The jury at this trial have been told there's no dispute that

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a punch killed this man, Gary Stacey.

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But they'll have to decide whether Ryan Cooper threw that

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punch in self-defence, as he claims, or whether,

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as the prosecution say, he was spoiling for a fight.

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Outlining their case, the prosecution said Cooper had

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recently split from his girlfriend and got together with friends

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at his parents' house, where they got drunk.

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He also used drugs, which he told friends about in a Facebook message.

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I just did the biggest line of cocaine," he wrote.

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A little later, he messaged, "I feel like I'm invisible."

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The group went to a bar and continued drinking heavily.

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Cooper posted another message, saying,

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"Mate, the Isle of Wight is so different.

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Later, in this street, Cooper and his friends

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were approached by Mr Stacey, who they'd had some

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The jury was shown CCTV footage of the moment

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We're not able to broadcast these pictures, but they show

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He fractured his skull, sustaining brain damage.

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The following day, Cooper told friends that Mr Stacey

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had threatened him, swearing and shouting.

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In police interviews, he said Mr Stacey had come

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"He looked like he was going to hit me," he told police,

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"so I just jabbed him to get him away."

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He said he punched him in self-defence.

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The trial is expected to last two weeks.

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Fire crews have spent most of the evening at the scene

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of a blaze at a school in West SussexT.

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The fire, at the Weald secondary school in Billingshurst,

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The leisure centre next door was evacuated.

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It's thought the fire started in a ground-floor classroom.

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Serial fly-tippers who've dumped hazardous waste on the New Forest

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have been accused of putting people and animals at risk.

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The National Trust says cleaning up the waste,

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which includes asbestos, will cost thousands of pounds.

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It's one of the most beautiful parts of the New Forest and a site

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But Furzley Common near West Wellow has become a dumping

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Time and again, household rubbish, building materials and even

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dangerous asbestos has been tipped on this National Trust land.

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Everybody likes to walk around in it.

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You've got animals and everything wandering around here, dog walkers.

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And to leave hazardous materials here, it is

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What on earth do these people think they are doing?

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I don't know where people are coming from, to think it is OK to dump it

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in a place like this. There are sharp edges

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and goodness knows what. Furzley Common isn't

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the only part of the forest A big pile of old tyres was also

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left on National Trust land at Linwood on the western side

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of the forest. In the last week alone,

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we have had over four different fly-tipping incidents

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in the last seven days. I would estimate that has cost us

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?3000 in National Trust charitable funds, which could be

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spent on conservation. In 2017 alone, we are up to 15

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separate incidents of fly-tipping. Across the south of England,

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fly-tipping is on the rise. Last year, there were

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nearly 38,000 cases, Back on the New Forest,

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there are calls for greater vigilance by residents

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to catch those responsible. The district council says it's

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working with the National Trust to investigate the recent

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series of incidents. So what action can councils take

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to catch the fly-tippers? David Allard is at Damerham

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in the New Forest tonight. This is another village that's

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seen its fair share of fly-tipping. The local authority

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is New Forest District Council. They told me they used to use mobile

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CCTV cameras at fly-tipping hotspots But there's been a change

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in the law - the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act,

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or RIPA. It now means, if councils

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want to use CCTV to monitor suspected criminal activity,

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they have to apply to a magistrate and prove the action

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is reasonable and proportionate. So people in this village decided

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to gather evidence themselves. It's very difficult for individuals

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or parish councils to actually Local authorities have got powers

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to do so although obviously You find that individuals will have

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to comply with various regulations about how the images are stored,

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where they are accessed, who's got access to them

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and obviously have to supply copies Of course, parish councils

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are made up of volunteers. Many simply won't have the time

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or resources to do that. So the main plea tonight

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from people in Damerham, New Forest District Council

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and the National Trust Report any cases of suspected

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fly-tipping because, as we've heard, it's costing thousands to clear up -

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money that could be spent on far That's the latest,

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thanks for being there. We're back with bulletins in BBC

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Breakfast tomorrow morning, but now here's Alexis

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with your weather forecast. Rain is on the cards overnight. Many

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light and patchy and mild. Temperatures in most areas remaining

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in double figures. These are the values in urban areas but in the

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countryside lows of eight Celsius. Patchy rain will be with us first

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thing. And through the morning, the rain will ease and we will see

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brighter skies. Still a fair amount of cloud. Temperatures will reach a

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high of 14 Celsius for any prolonged periods of sunshine, a high of 16

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Celsius, very similar to the day's temperatures. Cloud and outbreaks of

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rain on Thursday, the weather front pulls away and move northwards. We

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will start to see brighter skies to the course of the day, possibly hazy

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sunshine, but it will feel warm. We drag up that mild an through Spain

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and France and temperatures on Thursday could reach a high of

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17-18 C, the warmest day of the week. Through Friday, temperatures

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fall back to the seasonal average. The chance of rain at times. Cloud,

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bright ASBOs tomorrow and Thursday. of year. This stay tuned for the

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national weather forecasts with John Hammond.

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Good evening. Your parents might have told you once that life 's not

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fair and they were right. He is the proof. Over the next few days some

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of us will enjoy some lovely sunshine, temperatures in the low

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20s. It will feel like early summer. For others, quite a lot of rain

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around and it will feel like late March. This is showers earlier on

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today and dampness this evening in the West Country and Wales. That is

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heading north eastwards. A different sort of night. A lot of cloud

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around, quite damp and misty in places. Cloud cover will prevent

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temperatures falling much at all. A much milder my than we have seen

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recently. Except for the North of Scotland, but elsewhere in double

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figures. It will be a Graeme Murty start of the day for most

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