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Yahoo
4 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Cash boost for South West hospitals
Hospitals in Devon and Cornwall have been given more than £22m for vital repairs, the Department of Health and Social Care has confirmed. It comes as part of the £750m announced for the NHS in England in the autumn budget. Devon's hospitals have been given more than £15m for improvements, while Cornish hospitals will benefit from more than £8m. Health Secretary Wes Streeting said the government was "on a mission" to rebuild the NHS through investment and modernisation. Among the hospitals receiving funding were three of the largest in both counties - the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital (RD&E) in Exeter, Derriford Hospital in Plymouth, and the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro. Derriford Hospital has been given £1,815,000 for improvements to ventilation equipment in the neonatal unit. Ashley Dalton MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Public Health and Prevention, during a visit to Derriford Hospital, said the new system would improve environmental conditions for babies receiving specialist care. Elsewhere in Devon, RD&E and North Devon District Hospital, managed by the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, have been jointly allocated £5,412,000 for improvements to ventilation systems, and fire safety works. Various healthcare units, managed by the Devon Partnership NHS Trust, have been given £300,000 for improvements to energy systems. In Cornwall, the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro has been given £4,379,000 for improvements to energy, electrical, and water systems. The Department for Health and Social Care also announced £3.9m for Bodmin Hospital, to improve fire safety. The Department of Health and Social Care said fixing the "backlog of maintenance" at NHS hospitals would help to prevent cancellations. It said services were disrupted more than 4,000 times across England in 2023 and 2024 due to issues with poor quality buildings. Mr Streeting said: "A decade and a half of underinvestment left hospitals crumbling, with burst pipes flooding emergency departments, faulty electrical systems shutting down operating theatres, and mothers giving birth in outdated facilities that lack basic dignity." He said patients and staff deserved to be in buildings which were "safe, comfortable, and fit for purpose." Follow BBC Cornwall on X, Facebook and Instagram. Follow BBC Devon on X, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@ Views sought to improve local NHS services Trust awarded £3.5m to establish research centre Department of Health and Social Care
Yahoo
4 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
Woman in hospital after being hit by car and bike
A woman has life-threatening injuries after she was hit by a motorbike and a car when she was walking on a main road at night, police say. The 30-year-old woman from Truro was walking on the old A30 between Three Burrows and Blackwater at about 23:15 BST on Friday. Devon and Cornwall Police said she was struck by a Yamaha motorbike and a Fiat Panda and was taken to Derriford Hospital, Plymouth. The motorcyclist, a man in his 30s from Hayle, sustained a chest injury and was taken to Royal Cornwall Hospital, Treliske, they added. Police said officers had carried out a detailed investigation of the scene and had asked anyone with information or dashcam footage to come forward. More news stories for Cornwall Listen to the latest news for Cornwall Follow BBC Cornwall on X, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@ Devon and Cornwall Police
Yahoo
08-05-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Teenage cyclist seriously injured in crash
A teenage cyclist has suffered serious injuries in a collision with a white Ford Transit van in Plymouth. The crash happened at about 17:50 BST on Wednesday at Kings Road in Devonport. The boy, aged 15, was taken to Derriford Hospital by ambulance before being transferred to Bristol Children's Hospital. Devon and Cornwall Roads Policing Team and local response officers closed the road before later re-opening it once the scene had been examined. More news stories for Devon Listen to the latest news for Devon Follow BBC Devon on X, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@ Tributes paid to man, 18, killed in crash Empty van crashes into Devon post office Person in hospital after three-vehicle collision
BBC News
08-05-2025
- BBC News
Teenage cyclist seriously injured in Plymouth crash
A teenage cyclist has suffered serious injuries in a collision with a white Ford Transit van in Plymouth. The crash happened at about 17:50 BST on Wednesday at Kings Road in Devonport. The boy, aged 15, was taken to Derriford Hospital by ambulance before being transferred to Bristol Children's Hospital. Devon and Cornwall Roads Policing Team and local response officers closed the road before later re-opening it once the scene had been examined.
Daily Mirror
25-04-2025
- Daily Mirror
Camo-clad stalker who knifed ex dead when she started new romance learns his fate
A twisted former doorman was today jailed for life with a minimum term of 27 years after he knifed his estranged wife to death when he refused to accept their relationship was over. Paul Antony Butler, 53, stabbed university lecturer Claire Chick, 48, in a frenzied attack outside her home following a six-month campaign of stalking and harassment. Plymouth Crown Court heard the mother-of-two's murder was the culmination of months of harassment and violence at the hands of Butler. Jo Martin KC, prosecuting, said Plymouth University lecturer Ms Chick made six statements to the police about the defendant's conduct and he had been arrested three times for assault, harassment and stalking. At one point desperate Ms Chick text a friend saying: "I wish he would just get on with it and put me out of my misery." Despite being on bail and banned from going near her, 6ft 5in Butler continued to stalk his 5ft 2in wife and even put a tracking device on her car, Ms Martin said. When he learned she had formed a new relationship, he went to her flat wearing a camouflaged hooded top and waited for her to come out of the building. He then attacked her in the street, stabbing her more than 20 times with a large kitchen knife he had bought hours earlier from a supermarket. A passing motorist described Butler as "really going for it," Ms Martin said. Butler - who changed his Facebook status to "Stangray Strangler" in reference to Stangray Avenue where he lived - then fled the scene but not before chasing Ms Chick's new partner, Paul Maxwell, who had returned from a regular evening run and witnessed the murderous assault, shouting at him: "I'll f***ing do you too." Ms Chick was taken to Derriford Hospital but declared dead an hour after the attack. The court heard they became neighbours in 2021 after Ms Chick moved into the street following the end of her first marriage. By the following summer they were a couple, and they married in June 2024. "Prior to the wedding she expressed some doubts, and the honeymoon was the end of the relationship," Ms Martin said. "They had a huge argument. She told friends she regretted getting married and everything was about him. "On August 23 she told him she wanted to live alone. He made it clear he would make her change her mind. He would tell her he loved her, make threats of violence and threaten suicide. He also expressed feelings of jealousy and thought she was seeing someone. He told her he was seeing other people in order to provoke jealousy." With his escalating behaviour, Ms Chick contacted the police - telling officers in her final statement the day before she was killed: "I only feel that Butler will kill me if further action is not taken. I am in fear of leaving my house." Ms Martin said: "After the relationship was over there was constant texting, the tracking of her car, placing the restriction on the sale of her house, threatening suicide. She felt that he had made her life hell. She did repeatedly tell him to leave her alone and she felt violated by him. Then on the day of her murder, going to her workplace to watch her. She believed he would murder her." Ms Martin read out the victim impact statement from Ms Chick's father who spoke of how he heard the awful news that his "beautiful daughter" was "brutally and savagely murdered" by an "evil person who took her life". He described her as "generous and full of fun" "a good person who had a purpose to her life", with an "infectious laugh". He wrote of his concerns for her when she called him in September 2024 following her separation from Butler where she said in her own words that "she was in a living hell". He said she told him she had called the police for help "several times", explaining to them that she was being followed and spied on. He said it "broke my heart over and over again" to hear the stress and torment in her voice. He said Butler has "brutally killed the most beautiful human being" and had damaged so many lives, of her children, her grandchildren, friends and family. He told Butler he had "murdered my daughter and broken my heart... and you will go straight to hell". At a previous hearing, Butler, of Stangray Avenue, Plymouth, pleaded guilty to murder and possession of a bladed article.
