27/05/2014 Spotlight

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The vulnerable young man who was wrongly charged thousands of pounds

for accommodation and left without bathing facilities for six months.

Today a health service watchdog published

a highly critical report into the case of a patient from Plymouth.

We'll look at what the authorities he came into contact

For that care not to be vulnerable `` monitors in to be left so

vulnerable is what shocks me most. Sent to be slaughtered in

Wales The Dorset farmers furious that their TB infected cattle were

sent on a four hour journey. It is so wrong. They should not go

to Wales. There are abattoirs within 20 or 30 miles, they should not be

going to Wales. And the ?21 million project

that will allow the public to The NHS and the city council in

Plymouth have come in for harsh for harsh criticism over the way in

which a patient with schizophrenia Asperger's was treated after leaving

a psychiatric unit. The Health The Health Service Ombudsman today

said care was inadequate with who's not being identified, being

left suffering after a catalogue of This all dates back to when this man

was discharged from a psychiatric unit and re`housed in a flat in the

city. Over the next five years neither social services nor the

health authority took responsibility for co`ordinated is care properly

and it led to this catalogue of errors. He was overcharged ?8,000

for his accommodation and his flat was without bathing facilities for

six months and he was forced to spend weekends with his parents to

get respite from the poor standard of care. The ombudsman said the

failures were shocking. I think what is unusual and particular shocking

in this case is that there were at least three sets of opportunities to

put things right so they should have been monitoring the care between

them and every six months they should have been reviewing their

care plan and over the five years that we looked at it happened three

times and it should have happened ten times. Even when the gentleman

complained nobody took responsibility for putting things

right. What has been the reaction from mental health charities? I

spoke to a mental health charity about the report and they said they

could not comment on this particular case but they said the right to

support for people with mental illness is vital. When you leave

hospital you have been in a variety and `` environment where you have a

lot of support and there are people around and suddenly you your own and

it is difficult and we need to look at the whole person and what they

need and what support they need and make sure that the system fits

around that rather than having systems that the patient or the

person themselves has got to fit around. What have the NHS and the

city council had to say? Neither the new Devon commissioning group or the

City Council would be interviewed today about their failings but they

issued a joint statement in which they said they sincerely apologised

for the distress caused to the man and his family and they added that

they were developing an action plan to prevent a similar event from

happening again. They have each been ordered to play the man ?6,000 in

compensation. A Dorset farmer whose cattle have

tested positive for bovine TB says he's furious

the animals are being sent all Kevin Wallbridge says Government

officials insisted on the four hour long journey

although the family said they'd pay to send the animals to

a much nearer abattoir in Taunton. Our Environment Correspondent Adrian

Campbell reports. At Bridge farm in West Dorset it has

been a very difficult day for this family. Her pet name is Hannah. She

is six weeks away from carving and she has carbs in her and it is not

really fair that she goes. At 7am they were preparing to send some of

their cattle for slaughter. These animals have reacted positively to a

TB test but the family is worried about the distance they are being

sent for slaughter. Kevin had offered to pay the ?200 different in

cost he said would have been involved in sending the animals to

Taunton for slaughter but to date instead they were taken on a long

journey to Wales. The whole family is distressed by what they say is

bureaucratic intransigence. Some of the animals are giving a lot of milk

at the moment and it is not fair for them to be carrying that weight. We

not `` it is not that we want to get every drop of profit out of them but

if they are carrying 20 kilos of weight in their adders for four

hours stood up in a lorry it is not fair for them. There were three

generations of family helping today and they were all distressed. They

do not deserve to travel that far because of a contract that has been

taken out to supply this abattoir with TB Cowles. It is ludicrous. It

is absolutely ludicrous. Today we contacted the animal health and

veterinary laboratories department and they said there is a contract

that provides best value for the tax payer. It says it notes all of the

relevant details and ensures they meet EU travel regulations.

Tributes have been paid to a young aid worker from North Devon,

There are calls for the end of the postcode lottery of care for couples

in the region struggling to have a baby. Government health adviser said

too many areas are ignoring official guidelines to offer three IVF cycles

on the NHS. After so many years of not being able to have a baby I feel

so blessed to now. Living in Cornwall meant that Zoe was only

entitled to one cycle of IVF funded by the NHS and it worked for the

first time for that and more baby boys have followed naturally. Across

the Cornwall and Devon peninsula there is a shared facility for

treatment with one cycle per couple. In Somerset it is to cycles and also

in Dorset. Criteria on things like age and weight differ as well and

this is despite official guidance from the governmental health

advisers that infertile women up to the age of 40 should get three IVF

cycles. This is widely ignored and they are calling again for an end to

a postcode lottery. The NHS who decides how the health budget for

Cornwallis sent says it inherited the IDF policy from the former care

trust and it says with funding pressures difficult decisions do

have to be made. Campaigners say in fertility is a recognised illness

that affects one in six couples, meanwhile the policy in Devon and

Cornwall for IVF is under review with the outcome expected later this

year. Tributes have been paid to

a young aid worker from North Devon, who died of malaria

while volunteering in Kenya. 21`year`old Christi Kelly,

from Ilfracombe, was on a ten month placement with

the charity Moving Mountains UK. Spotlight's North Devon reporter,

Andrea Ormsby, has the latest. This is the youth cup in Ilfracombe

where Christi Kelly used to come as a child and then went on to work for

as a member of the Devon youth service. Today floral tributes. We

got the sad news we were devastated. The whole of Ilfracombe, all of

Devon were devastated. She was an inspiration for a lot of young

people and staff. Live life to the full, nothing was too much trouble.

She was taken ill last week and was driven for six hours to hospital in

the Kenyan capital Nairobi but she died there the next day. It was

sometimes an act or something but she's stuck everything out, there

was nothing that she would not do. She was a true inspiration, a

shining star. The family are just devastated, absolutely devastated.

Christi Kelly's death is said to be from a severe and sudden case of

malaria although her family say she had all the injections and was

taking tablets. The charities she was with has offered condolences to

her family in Devon. A 19`year`old man has been airlifted

to hospital in Plymouth after being attack happened on Alamein Road

in Saltash this afternoon. A 26`year`old man

and a woman have been arrested and police say they are not looking

for anyone else in connection with the incident but they would

like any witnesses to come forward. It's been revealed that fast jets,

which operate out of the Royal Naval Air Station at Culdrose

in Cornwall have been returned to The black Hawk jets were,

until recently, The 14 aircraft now make up

736 Naval Air Squadron. Spotlight's David George

has this report. The 14 jets have become a familiar

sight in the skies over Cornwall. Similar to the red arrows, these are

used as an aggressive squadron, they simulate enemy aircraft and missiles

in order to train ship's crews. The Jets and their pilots also act as

close air support for Royal Marines training exercises. They were known

as fleet requirements and air direction unit and it was run by the

giant outsourcing company Sir code. Now, without any fanfare and farce,

they have been returned to the Royal Navy. `` SERCO. There was a

realisation that we are carrying out a task for the Navy with the Navy so

it should be turned into a naval air Squadron. The Harrier was phased out

in 2010 and so we have effectively got a Squadron here of fast jets, a

whole load of fast jet pilots out there without a Squadron to be part

of so it made complete sense for the Navy to turn it back into a naval

air Squadron. The 11 pilots here include two reservists and they

still use three civilian contractors. The Navy does not have

quite the resources to man the Squadron fully. We have a lot of

guys in the United States flying teens and pilots all over the UK

doing valuable work outside of this Squadron so there is still a need to

outsource some of the work to contractors. At the moment we are

supported by SERCO who provide a few of the pilots for us and will

probably continue to do so. This Squadron is important because it

will provide young pilots, the Navy's top guns who will fly from

the decks of the new Queen Elizabeth air carrier which is due to be

floated next month. The Jets will join three squadrons of Merlin

helicopters in a massive seaborne exercise on board HMS Illustrious,

off the Cornish coast, in three weeks time.

Refunds offered to ticket holders after Day Three

And the tale of Forrest Stump the fox cub,

Plymouth may have missed out on becoming City of Culture 2017

but today the Heritage Lottery Fund announced it's putting more than ?12

million towards the creation of a new history centre.

It's more than half the ?21 million needed for the project in

which the city's existing museum will be upgraded and expanded.

Nearby St Luke's Church will also be renovated.

In addition to housing existing collections, the South West Film

and Television Archive will have a permanent home at the museum.

Janine Jansen examines the plans which it's hoped will draw tens

A pop`up in `` a pop`up museum in Plymouth today brought history to

life to celebrate a massive lottery award of nearly ?13 million.

Fantastic. It is the best part of the job when you can see, in such a

competitive environment, you can see the best projects getting through.

For Plymouth, an area with a fantastic heritage but it does not

always managed to showcase it as well as it can, it will now have the

opportunity to really be able to do that. The money will create a we

have boots from a woman who is the most travelled woman in the 19th

century and we have the earliest written recipe for a pasty. As well

as showcasing existing collections there will be material from an image

bank with more than 1 million negatives. Our earliest images from

the 1860s and we have a few wonderful collections that run right

up until 2002. One of them in particular is a news archive with a

lot of deposits from local photographers dating around from the

1920s and also from the 1890s. It is hoped it will double the number of

visitors to the museum to 200,000 a year. It is a lot of money but it is

good to know about history. It is really good because I take history

at A`level and I think it is an important thing so I am definitely

up for money being spent on that. 95% of objects that the region owns

will be on display for the first time. Ian Cooper is with us from the

television archive, has this safeguarded your future? It

absolutely has. We had amazing news this morning from the Heritage

Lottery Fund. As a small nonprofit charitable organisation historically

we have always been conscious about the need to secure long`term future

but we have never found the means to do that. This history Centre really

does do that for us. It enables us to really get our material out into

the public domain to be celebrated which is what it is therefore. It

gives you a home, doesn't it? Absolutely right. We are currently

about to move to central offices in the heart of Plymouth as a temporary

measure but then going into the new history Centre in five years time,

we will have a brand`new facility with our key partners, Plymouth City

Council, Southwest image bank, to really champion Plymouth and the

region's amazing history and heritage. Obviously the history and

heritage is so important, you have brought some footage and today which

I think is from 1912 of Plymouth town centre. Yes, Plymouth town

centre before the three towns became one in November 1914. This is around

about two years prior to that and you are looking at early street

scenes of Plymouth. It is in and around union Street and over towards

what is now Royal Parade. You will notice it looks remarkably different

to now. Yes, it has been completely transformed. We will listen to

another clip which is from the 60s and has a bit of the Beatles. You?

Fine thank you. What do you think of Plymouth? It is OK, we haven't seen

much of it. We just drove in. That was a tiny crowd out there. It

doesn't worry us. It is not worrying me, isn't worrying you? I think it

will be bigger when we go out. Yes. People will be able to come in and

the interactive with archive like that when it is setup. Yes, the

cornerstone of the history bid was to make it use a lead for the

general public to come in and enjoyed this new interactive

facility. It will really unlock our heritage and throw open the doors

and make it something that we are all clearly proud of but now we can

really get our hands on it and interact with it in a way that just

has not been achievable prior to this. Congratulations and thank you

The organisers of the Devon County Show say they didn't

have a Plan B for the torrential rain that forced the cancellation

who had tickets will be offered a refund but it's not clear

whether traders who lost money will get compensation.

Pastis and pies, this business expected to sell up to 2000 of them

on Saturday alone at the Devon County Show. Extra staff were

brought in to sell it but it was all for nothing because the show was

cancelled. It is our biggest payday of the year so to be completely

thumped and dropped has been a pretty bad bird. It is not just the

lack of trade, it is also the stock that we had ready that we have not

been able to use, it is all a fresh product. This was the reason. The

car parks were mud baths. Even a plan to lay stone paths on Friday to

be abandoned. It was like the Battle of the Somme out here, it was

absolutely unbelievable. The stone will be used and we will put tracks

in, using the stone that is here, but it is too early to make any more

decisions on what we can do. The Met Office says that on the day before

the event and the first day of the show sites nearby soared 20

millimetres of rain. The May average in England is 58 millimetres of rain

for the entire month. Over 30,000 cars park around the show and

organisers say that the park and ride service could not have coped on

Saturday but they hope that more people will use park and ride in

future. To actually deal with this and make it an exhibition venue Park

would cost millions. It is just not practical. In the meantime

businesses are left counting the cost of Saturday's lost show and

waiting to hear if they will get compensation.

There's concern in a south Devon village that it could change

forever, now that the beauty spot has has been put up for sale.

Bantham near Kingsbridge is being sold for ?11 million by it's

Our South Devon reporter John Ayres has more.

Stunning sea views, a sort after location that comes with rental

income. Let us not for get the golf course and some farms as well.

Bantham is quite a place if you have ?11 million to spare. The sale of

the village is worrying for local people who have got used to how the

estate company has looked after the area. They have done a wonderful job

of looking after the estate since the 1920s. It will be tragic if

anybody takes it over and tries to develop it commercially. I grew up

just up the road. I virtually learned to swim on this beach and I

hope that it remains undeveloped. One would hope that whoever comes

around would look at what is here now and say, let us take the best of

that, and if there is anything better, build on it. Not come along

and think we can make a mint out of the surfing down here or something

like that. There was a policy of renting cottages to local people so

this is not a wash with second homes and some of the families who live

here have done so before more than 50 years. Ideally Bantham will be

sold as a whole although the estate agent is marketing it in smaller

chunks to insure they get the interest. They are insisting that

existing relevance `` residents will be protected. There are a number of

secure tenants so the village are worried about who the buyer will be

but our job is to find someone who will protect the estate and look

after it as our clients have done over the last 100 years. There has

been interest from as far away as Australia and Singapore and the

estate agents think it will take a few months to find the right buyer.

A fox cub which was found sick and badly injured by a walker

in Cornwall has made a remarkable recovery thanks to

The seven week old cub which has been named Forrest Stump

after losing his tail, is being cared for at a wildlife retreat.

Eleanor Parkinson reports on an unusual relationship.

When Forrest Stump was brought in a month ago he was weak and had had

his tail amputated after a serious injury and the Ranger did not think

he would survive but he credits his recovery to a special friendship

with a family dog. He was so frail that he needed something to give him

a bit of a boost. The minute you left him he would start crying.

Barney lives at home with us and he was unfortunately dumped on us and

dumped in our barn a couple of years ago so he was a rescue dog himself

and he was very friendly so soon as he heard the fox cub wanted to get

involved. Because Forrest Stump has been hand reared he cannot be

released into the wild so he will join the other hand reared foxes on

the farm. He will be in good company. This is also home to attain

Crow and a blind hedgehog. The job now is to get the fox cub fit and

teaching canine social skills. The main thing we cannot give him is

teaching him dog and fox etiquette and building up muscle and bone

strength. Lots of really vigorous activity is good for him and that is

where Barney comes in. Barney has done such a good job with Forrest

Stump that they hope to introduce into the adult foxes in the next few

weeks where he will get a new home and a new family.

He looks so sweet. They have got them all there!

I did not think dogs and foxes got on, might hate them, they go mad.

We have seen it all. And now Holly is here. Hello, Holly. He was

gorgeous, wasn't he. We have seen some bright skies so far today that

cloud has been building as we move through tomorrow we will start to

see more cloud around. There will still be sunny spells coming through

and we have a risk of showery rain. We have a swathe of cloud running

through central and eastern parts of the country and out to the West as

well there is a bit more cloud around but we are sitting in the

middle and you can see we are sitting between weather systems. On

Wednesday not a great deal of change and we will see cloud feeding across

us but on Thursday that front. To move that bit closer and we are

likely to see some outbreaks of rain. On Friday we see the rain

flowing through and the high pressure starts to build behind and

that is good news for Saturday. Back to the here and now. In the central

and east of the UK there has been a lot of cloud and rain. We have

showers speeding through Dorset and Somerset and they will push into the

east of Devon and further west we will see sunshine. This evening we

will continue to see sharp showers but they tend to ease down and it is

a mostly dry night with some clear spells. Staying mild as we head

through the early hours. There is brightness around in places tomorrow

with sunny spells coming through but cloud is thickening up from the east

and it is likely to bring patchy rain the further east you are but

the further west you are the longer we you are likely to hang on to hang

onto dry and bright weather with some sunshine. Highs for tomorrow

generally around the mid`teens. Now we take a look at the Isles of

Scilly and a decent day in store here. It is a bit further west and

sunshine is coming through. It should be a dry day.

If we take a look at the waves for our surfers...

Now the coastal waters forecast. Thereafter, on Thursday we can

expect outbreaks of rain which could turn heavy at times. Friday is

brighter but still with the risk of showers. Saturday should be a dry

day with sunshine coming through and temperatures creeping that bit

higher. Thank you very much. That is it and

I will be back at 10pm tonight. Join me then if you can. We will be back

tomorrow at 6:30 p.m.. Goodbye.