15/11/2013 Spotlight

Commonwealth Summit in Sri Lanka. That is all from the BBC News at

six. On BBC 29,000 patients waiting for

follow`up appointments at the region's biggest hospital.

Good evening. There are calls for urgent action to deal with the

backlog at Derriford. The hospital says it has put plans in place. We

are identifying those patients who we believe to be at risk by

prioritising their appointments. Also tonight: A murder investigation

in Cornwall. A woman has been arrested after the death of a

60`year`old GP. Praising the work of food banks ` the Archbishop of

Canterbury begins a three`day visit to the region.

And we're live at this year's Party For Pudsey. Make sure you join us

later TQM. `` to hear the song. Health watchdogs in Plymouth are

urgently asking how Derriford Hospital plans to deal with a

backlog of 29,000 patients who are overdue follow`up appointments. They

include cancer and heart patients and children. Plymouth Hospitals

Trust says it is prioritising patients to ensure those who might

be at risk are seen quickly. Here's our Health Correspondent Sally

Mountjoy. It is the region's biggest hospital

and sees half a million patients a year. It almost 29,000 people who

should have had follow`up appointments are still waiting to be

seen. Cancel health watchdogs are asking what is being done about it

`` Council. I want to know why there are bad many and how it is going to

be managed, because I except that there for deserve very busy

hospital, and obviously there will be quite a few referrals back, but

it is making sure that it is managed properly and is not allowed to

escalate to five. The trust says that the backlog is a long`term

problem. The surgeon is overseeing the plan to clear it. No heart

patients are at risk from the delays, but he says that all cancer

patients will be seen in the next three weeks, as well 5000 people who

need to be seen quickly. We're prioritising appointments of those

we believe to be at risk, we are making sure that they get a timely

appointment in the near future. The number of patients overdue hospital

follow`up theories from none to just over 5000 that other hospitals,

where there are also plans to reduce the numbers. At Derriford there are

alternatives to follow`up appointments. Nurse led clinics,

follow`up clinics, telephone. Any means that we can prevent patients

unnecessarily coming to the hospital, and getting the right

treatment. Derriford is struggling to balance rising cost and demand

with falling incomes. It is having to cope with pressure is on A to

make sure that new patients are seen quickly and get follow`ups. It is up

to GPs to work out with patients what health services we really need

at how those can be provided within limited resources. The wife of a

Cornish GP has been arrested on suspicion of stabbing him to death

at their home in Feock. He has been named locally as Dr Gary Hughes, who

was a partner at a practice in Redruth. Alison Johns reports.

Police were called to this quiet residence in Feock at about 740 M ``

7:40am this morning. They found that 50 old stabbed and also a woman with

minor injuries. She was arrested on suspicion of murder. The incident

has shocked neighbours. You do not expect this to happen somewhere like

this, especially such nice people. Two doctors, happily married. I saw

the a week ago going out in the sports car with the roof down. What

could possibly go wrong? It is a tragic loss to the community and I

am sure that they have got very many patients in the practice were going

to miss them both and I am very, very sorry. And I know that all of

the people here feel very low on this occasion. Dr Gary Hughes worked

at this practice in Redruth. Detectives have been carrying out

house`to`house enquiries. We're not looking for anyone else at the

moment. This appears to be a domestic incident. We have done

neighbourhood enquiries, obviously if anyone has information that can

assist us and they have not been spoken to by a police officer,

please contact us. Police say that doctors use's life, his injuries are

not thought to be life`threatening, will be released from hospital when

she is fit enough to be questioned. An inquest has heard how an armed

robber who died after he was held on the ground by customers at a betting

shop in Plymouth had been drinking heavily. 50`year`old Alan Levers was

three`and`a`half times over the drink`drive alcohol limit when he

went into the Ladbrokes branch on Crownhill Road in January wearing a

gas mask. Janine Jansen reports from the inquest.

50`year`old Alan Levers had pretty easily `` previously spent time in

jail. He was also an alcoholic. In January he was three and a half

times over the legal drink drive limit when he attempted to rob this

big makers. CCTV footage showed him wearing a gas mask and pointing an

imitation pistol. One customer help them to the ground. When the police

allowed the took off the gas mask. . The family of Alan Levers did not

want to speak to the media today, but in a statement they said, I am

sorry for what the witnesses were put through. What happened should

never have happened in the first place and Alan played `` paid the

price. People in Cornwall have been given more details about plans to

build a dedicated mental health unit for young people in the county.

The campaign for a unit follows the death of 18`year`old Ben Cowburn,

who took his own life whilst he was a patient at Long Reach House in

Redruth, an adult mental health unit. At the moment many young

people are sent out of the county for care. Ben's father says that's

wrong. I think they feel terribly isolated. Someone put a comment on

our website which was, and I will paraphrase, basically, I am ill, I

am medicated, and they sent me 200 miles away from home, away from my

friends and family. He would not treat a prisoner like this, red dog.

The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby visited Cornwall today.

Amongst his stops he called in on a food bank and money centre in

Launceston. The Archbishop was impressed by how communities have

responded to the need of food banks in Cornwall. He believes the

combination of money centre and food bank work well together. In the past

The Archbishop has been outspoken about payday lenders and the risks

of people falling into debt. I think they are essential in tackling the

issues that get people into financial trouble in the first

place. And good centre in evil steeple to just stand up and see how

to tackle the problem properly `` a good money centre allows people just

to stand up. One of the final links in the new Exe Estuary cycle route

opened today. It crosses the River Clyst at

Topsham near Exeter and has cost around ?2.5 million to build.

Adrian Campbell reports. The beautiful scenery along the Exe

Estuary has already provided beautiful routes for cyclist. We

have been waiting for months to have this open and all of the new bridges

that we have been open, we just love it. It keeps us fit and happy. My

colleague and I come down most weeks. This is a real enhancement of

the past. It is the most dutiful cycle path I think in the country.

Although I have not seen the bridge yet, this can only be an

improvement. It was a feat of engineering to bring this bridge to

its final location. It has become part of the landscape. Today this

section of the route was opened for the first time and there is already

a lot of interest about what is going on here.

In football, Plymouth Argyle travel to York tomorrow in search of goals.

The Pilgrims have won their last two League games but have scored the

fewest goals in the Division. Back in Devon, Exeter City look to return

to winning ways at home to Southend United while Torquay United hope to

have Captain Lee Mansell fit for their visit from third`placed

Chesterfield. In the rugby the Cornish Pirates

visit Jersey in the Championship tomorrow, but our other two sides

don't play until Sunday. The Exeter Chiefs are in Anglo`Welsh Cup action

against Bath, the only top`flight team the Chiefs have failed to beat

since they entered the Premiership in 2010. In the Championship,

Plymouth Albion go to Nottingham to look for their first ever win at

Meadow Lane. Body`boarders from across the

country have gathered in Newquay to surf with a living legend of the

sport. Nine`time world champion Mike Stewart checked out the waves at

Tolcarne Beach as part of a whistle`stop tour of the county.

Johnny Rutherford was there. This is not what you would call good

surf conditions, but when you have travelled all the way from Hawaii to

body`board in Newquay, you paddle on regardless. It looks terrible, but

once you get out there and looks good. He has come to Cornwall tissue

off the skills that have made him nine time world champion. I have

seen a lot of people that I met the first time I was here. It is great

to see them. Some people travelled six hours just to surf with him. It

is once`in`a`lifetime. The things that the wage and has done for our

sport is unbelievable. `` the legend. Some say he is a great role

model for the young body`boarders. Some say that body`boarding is the

best way to write away. Mike Stewart is the best at it on this board. To

continue K `` to come to Newquay and shows what he's got is amazing. Mike

Stewart's was. Tour `` whistle`stop tour will continue in the region

before going to Ireland. That is all for me here in the

studio tonight. It is time to start the count down to this evening's

fundraising Party For Pudsey. Rebecca Will is in Falmouth along

with BBC Radio Cornwall's James Churchfield.

Welcome to the National Maritime Museum borrower Party For Pudsey. So

many people gathered for this wonderful occasion. The party has

already started. There are hundreds of people with us. Let us give you a

quick tour of what will be your home for the next few hours. Pudsey is

already making himself at home. You can see some of the people that have

come along to the party. Ie looking forward to it? `` are you looking

forward to it? ALL: Yes! We have our fundraisers here. People

who have been doing amazing things. We will hear from some of them a

little bit later on. And we have very amazing Children In Need

choir. 200 voices will be joining with over 1500 other singers in the

main Children In Need programmes singing a very special song. We have

heard it in rehearsal this afternoon. We will have a taster,

you will not want to miss it. You have been filling out all of the

stops fundraising right across the region. Some wonderful and wacky

things have been happening. Let us find out what you have been doing

across the South West. It is fortunate that we have Children In

Need day today, so I can wear my usual attire!

I cannot quite believe I am doing this. This is crazy! # Everybody's

got a dream. # What do you say, are we making history? # We are only

young is we seize the night. # Tonight we own the night. # Tonight

we own the night. Writes now she is raising money by

being a goalkeeper for charity. # I got something to say.

# May your hearts be full of your dreams tonight.

# May we sing and dance tiil we lose our minds.

# We are only young if we seize the night, tonight we own the night.

It's all four a good cause, isn't it!

Every year we are astounded by the links that you go to to raise money

for children in need. To everyone, we give you a very hearty thank you.

If you have raised money, if you have given money. It really will

make a difference to the lives of children here in the South West.

None more so than the call. She uses a children's hospice in the region.

Her mum tells us the story. Nicole is born `` Nicole was born as

a normal child, but then we discovered she had a rear syndrome.

She is just Nicole. She just does not speak. The most often question I

get is, how do you know when she is annoyed? You just know. She does not

really display pane, she does not smile, but we just embrace her.

She's our little girl and we all love her. All of the children love

her. People do not realise that nobody else can look after these

children. They have got such specific needs. Everything has to be

done right, there is no room for errors. This is what these places

are for. There is nobody else they are out of ours who you can phone to

say, I am in a mess. Can you help? Of course we can help. The children

think it is a big holiday once they get here. The sibling team are

brilliant. You cannot ask for a better people. She is treated as a

normal person here. None of the children staying at her, and it is

nice to see the siblings all playing together. And they are all relaxed.

They are all happy. But ultimately you know that it is not going to

have a happy ending. So we now know we can come here with her child when

that happens. When that happens, we can come here, spend our last time

together in a place that is happy and with the sibling team, most

importantly, that can support the call's siblings, because they are

the most important. `` Nicole's siblings. Getting them to deal with

what is going to happen. That reason alone is why these places should be

here. I think they are amazing places because when you come in you

do not know that any of that is there, you do not know that sad is

happening here. People always say, can we help you? This is how you can

help us. You can donate. That is how you can help. That is the difference

your fundraising makes for Children In Need, helping people like

Nicole's family, making a real difference to their lives. We have

some checks here, plenty of people out and about. Where are you from

and what have you done? We are dressed up in Wix, `` in wigs and

Wellington boots. ?868.11. How did you read that? We had peak sales,

face painting. We also had the staff in stocks. I bet that was fun! This

is 1500 p from B and Q in Cornwall. We have had raffles, cake sales, all

of the staff in fancy dress. You get depressed Pudsey's stomach. Nothing

has happened! Never mind. Well done to everybody, fabulous effort for

fundraising for Children In Need. I'm here with very amazing

children's choir. You looking forward to your singing this

evening? I probably better not get them to scream to lately because

they will lose their voices. Is this your first time saying with a big

choir like this? It is one of my first time is doing this live on TV.

How much preparation has there been? There have been a lot of

rehearsals today, it has been quite tough. But it is all for a good

cause. What is it been due to be taking part? It is a really good

cause and I am so pleased to be supporting it. I am so glad that it

is going to be on TV. Last year it was the third highest point that

people paid money out. You will really make a difference, I am sure.

How does it make you feel to be here with so many young people? It makes

me really happy that we may be helping lots of people. Did you have

to be coerced into taking part, as a boy? I really wanted to do it,

because I love singing. What does it mean to you to take part? It means a

lot to me, because I am really excited. It really is something very

special. Make sure you join us for that. Now back to the studio to take

a look at the weather. I did make a promise to Pudsey that

I would start with Barmouth. `` Falmouth. Although we have a cover

of cloud now, by midnight or just after we're going to get

temperatures fairly close to freezing. For the next few days we

have a fairly quiet spell of weather, it is mainly dry. Some

frost and fog around and then turning very much colder next week.

Quite a big change for those drops in temperatures. There is the

satellite picture from earlier today. That cloud will thin and

break earlier today. `` later on. For much of the weekend, we do have

a weather system that comes in from the north`west, but that would be a

slow progress towards us. Not really arriving until probably overnight

and into Monday. He wrote the details. A lot of clear sky to the

Easter bus. `` a lot of clear sky to the east of us. PHONE RINGS.

I am very sorry, it is my phone. Pudsey, I am doing a live broadcast.

Yes, but the book bit silly. I did promise. OK. I made Pudsey a

promise, so I'm going to have to wear them. That's better, isn't it?

Anyway. Let us get on with the forecast. I mention the clearing

skies. They will get clearer later, as a result it will be cold. Quite

widespread tonight. It will develop across parts of East Devon. The

source of temperatures we can expect a freebie close to freezing for most

of the South of England. Through the day tomorrow, a lot of sunshine.

Gradually clouding over as the cloud comes and later in the afternoon.

That means that we will probably not see a frost tonight, but we will see

temperatures of ten or 11 degrees. They are quite fetching, and they!

He wrote the times of high water. `` you are. The winds are late through

this weekend. Expect a breeze becoming variable. Mainly fear

conditions and generally good visibility out to sea. They are

laughing your socks off! Let us look at the forecast into the start of

next week. A lot of clout that may produce some spots of rain. We are

still into the relatively mild earbud look at the drop in

temperatures into Tuesday. `` mild air. Let us go back to Falmouth and

the National Maritime Museum. I like those years. Perhaps they

should become a permanent feature. Plenty more to come. Make sure that

you join us later. We will leave you with our amazing choir. Have a great

evening. Join us later. # Some words they can spoken only

sung. # So hear a thousand voices shouting

loud. # There's a place, there's a time in

this life when you sing what you are feeling.

# Find your feet, stand your ground. # Sing it louder, sing it clearer.

# Make some noise, find your voice tonight.

# Shouting loud tonight.