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Over the last 24 hours the pressure on some hospitals in the South West | :00:12. | :00:19. | |
has reached peak levels, with all experiencing huge demand. | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
Some have declared the highest level of alert | :00:24. | :00:25. | |
and some operations have been postponed. | :00:26. | :00:26. | |
Clare Woodling joins me now with more details. | :00:27. | :00:34. | |
This winter, a new way of classifying pressure has been | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
brought in at hospitals across the country. | :00:41. | :00:42. | |
What we knew as black alert, the most serious status, | :00:43. | :00:44. | |
is now called Operational Pressures Escalation Level 4 or OPEL 4. | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
Tonight the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro is on this, | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
It says there are around 100 patients occupying beds | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
but who are waiting to go on to the next stage | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
Other hospitals which have also been under immense strain in recent | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
days include Yeovil, where managers have | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
urged people with minor problems to avoid A | :01:07. | :01:08. | |
Last night, Derriford Hospital in Plymouth was on the highest level | :01:09. | :01:10. | |
of alert but today there's been some relief as that level has been | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
dropped to OPEL three, formerly known as red alert, | :01:15. | :01:16. | |
The hospital says it's still "operationally challenged" | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
and additional doctors and nurses have been brought in to help. | :01:20. | :01:26. | |
North Devon District Hospital is under a similar level of pressure. | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
Dorset County Hospital says that it is 96 per cent full | :01:30. | :01:31. | |
but at the moment it's on a lower level of alert. | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
It says health and social services are working together well | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
Urgent action is being taken at Torbay Hospital. | :01:38. | :01:46. | |
Meanwhile 50 extra beds have been opened | :01:47. | :01:47. | |
where all planned operations have been postponed. | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
One of the consultants there spoke to me earlier | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
It has been very busy. We have been experiencing great levels of demand | :01:54. | :02:03. | |
with an enormous number of patients, to the doors but we have been | :02:04. | :02:10. | |
managing to give patients excellent care. There is no secret that the is | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
rising the. More patients are coming along. We have an ageing population, | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
particularly in this area and elderly patients need more extra | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
care and the wintertime so the pressure has worsened, year on year. | :02:25. | :02:26. | |
NHS England says tried-and-tested plans are in place. | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
People are being reminded that attending A is the right thing | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
to do in an emergency or life-threatening situation | :02:35. | :02:36. | |
but often people forget about Minor Injury Units for cuts, | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
As well as advice from GPs and pharmacies, there's | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
People are being reminded not to visit friends and relatives | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
in hospital if they feel unwell themselves, so as to avoid | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
spreading viruses to people who are already vulnerable. | :02:54. | :02:55. | |
Let's take a look at other news around the region tonight. | :02:56. | :03:02. | |
A coroner has recorded a verdict of accidental death after | :03:03. | :03:04. | |
a Plymouth man fell 14 floors trying to stop his teenage friend | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
The inquest heard how 24-year -old Thomas Bennett had climbed | :03:08. | :03:14. | |
onto the ledge at the University of Honolulu to try and save the life | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
Both men fell, but his friend survived the incident. | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
A police investigation is continuing into the discovery of the bodies | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
of a man and a woman at a farmhouse near Dunkeswell in Devon. | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
The police say the deaths are being treated as a "domestic-related | :03:31. | :03:32. | |
The married couple have been named locally as Nicola and Michael Beck. | :03:33. | :03:39. | |
A pupil from Truro School received hospital treatment after students | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
broke a curfew and bought drugs and alcohol on | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
The head teacher of the private school confirmed a number of | :03:46. | :03:53. | |
sixth form students bought a small amount of drugs from a local dealer. | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
One female student was taken to hospital but was not seriously ill. | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
Wildlife campaigners in Dorset are celebrating | :04:02. | :04:02. | |
following a U-turn on proposals to build a large solar farm | :04:03. | :04:10. | |
in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. | :04:11. | :04:12. | |
Dorset Wildlife Trust says they're pleased | :04:13. | :04:13. | |
an agreement has been reached with British Solar Renewables | :04:14. | :04:15. | |
A smaller solar farm is now expected to be built nearby. | :04:16. | :04:23. | |
More than 8,000 Plymouth Argyle supporters have | :04:24. | :04:25. | |
bought tickets for Sunday's big match against Liverpool. | :04:26. | :04:32. | |
The last time the Pilgrims made round three was three years ago, | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
You have to play without any fear. Discipline, competence. If all of | :04:36. | :04:48. | |
the players are up to peak form... Stick to the game plan, togetherness | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
and belief. This squad does have belief and a manager with one thing | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
on his mind. We are going to win, there is the possibility, it has | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
happened in the past. You got to go there with that belief and attitude. | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
Graham Kelly, a Liverpool fan is Plymouth Argyle's Star man and | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
unfazed by performing on the big stage. When the game starts, you're | :05:12. | :05:18. | |
in the zone, you're in a bubble commie don't focus on the fans, just | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
fully on the game. Unless we are competitive, unless we give it a | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
good go, then we are not really going to enjoy it. | :05:28. | :05:29. | |
Six grey seal pups have been released back into the wild | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
after spending several months being nursed back to health | :05:33. | :05:34. | |
by staff at the Cornish Seal Sanctuary at Gweek. | :05:35. | :05:36. | |
Among the six were Honey Badger, Panther, | :05:37. | :05:38. | |
All were rescued around Cornwall's coast after being found abandoned, | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
dangerously underweight and in several cases | :05:42. | :05:43. | |
You can only prepare them so much. I am more than confident that they | :05:44. | :05:57. | |
will figure it out and that they will find fish and settle right back | :05:58. | :05:59. | |
into the wild. Time now for the weather | :06:00. | :05:59. | |
forecast with David. Good evening. We've had some dry | :06:00. | :06:09. | |
weather over the last four or five weeks. There is some rain now, but | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
the month of December was particularly dry, the seventh driest | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
ever with records going back to 1910. 42% of what we would normally | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
see in terms of rainfall. There is some patchy rain overnight tonight. | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
Tomorrow is rather cloudy and misty, but turning quite a bit less cold as | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
we start to see winds coming from the West. We still have high | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
pressure. Any weather fronts, fairly weak, but bringing cloud, trapped | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
beneath that area of high pressure, for Saturday and Sunday. So little | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
change in the weather pattern, and limited amounts of sunshine. | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
Overnight, it will not be cold, temperatures up by the end of the | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
night at around 6-8 C, so mild compared to what we have seen | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
recently. Tomorrow, quite grey and misty, with extensive low cloud and | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
hill fog. Even though the drizzle moves away, we keep a lot of low | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
figures at around 10 Celsius. The figures at around 10 Celsius. The | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
arriving later in the day on Monday. but not by much. Some | :07:15. | :07:23. | |
And cold and breezy by Tuesday of next week. The good evening. That's | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
it from the late team. Have a good night. Goodbye. | :07:28. | :07:38. | |
Good evening. The weather has been turning milder and also cloudier | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
through the course of the day. We did see some clear spells moving in | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
from the North will stop this was the sunset, captured in Dundee. Some | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
clear spells as we headed through the course of the afternoon into the | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
evening. Really, through the weekend, wiki with a similar theme. | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
Much milder than it has been. A lot of cloud around in general, but for | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
most of us think. Dry. Not dry everywhere at the moment, | :08:06. | :08:07. | |
particularly across central and southern parts of England and Wales. | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
We have a lot of cloud, bringing outbreaks of light rain and drizzle. | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
The patchy rain will ease away slowly towards the south through | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
tonight and further north across the country, drier conditions. Wherever | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
you are, it's pretty cloudy. Mostly frost free to start the weekend, but | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
there could be frost across the central glens of Scotland. A chilly | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
start, but quite a lot of cloud, some pockets of | :08:33. | :08:33. |