And a small green miracle in a refugee camp injordan thanks to scientists from Sheffield University. Assaults on staff have more than quadrupled in prisons in yorkshire and lincolnshire over a five year period. In 2013, 326 were recorded. This figure rose to almost 1,400 in 2018. The latest figures show three prisons in particular full sutton, wealstun and wetherby recorded more assaults on staff in the first nine months of 2019 than in the whole of the previous year. Tracy gee has been speaking to three officers who have experienced first hand how the violence has escalated. You might find some of the images
in the film upsetting. Attacks on prison officers are at an all time high. They are a daily occurrence. Ive seen staff he headbutted. Im seen staff he sexually assaulted. Ive been thrown in the wall. Ive had a tv thrown in my face. On average 27 assaults happen every single day. Thats more than one an hour. Theyve got shanks. Theyve got access to razor blades. Theyre ready. Theyre
Storm ciara is starting to ease, but it left major disruption, damaging gusts of winds, flooding rains, and significant disruption to power and transport, right across the country. It is starting to move its way steadily south and east into the near continent, taking damaging gusts of wind and rain south east as well. Behind it, though, a somewhat noticeable difference to the feel of the weather as we see cool air pushing down from the north west. The winds will remain a feature as well and that will continue to drive in frequent showers, particularly across exposed west facing coasts, but many further inland. Some of them falling as snow. Icy stretches could be an issue in scotland with temperatures close to freezing by dawn on monday. So a treacherous commute here, and it does look as though we will keep plenty of isobars across the uk for the start of the new working week. A windy monday morning for all, plenty of showers rushing in from the west, and again, these will continue to b
Hello, youre watching afternoon live im simon mccoy. Today at 2pm. A gp practice in brighton is shut temporarily after a staff member tests positive for coronovirus. The number of confirmed cases in the uk has now reached eight. Storm ciara continues to cause chaos across britain, with severe travel and power disruption one man has been killed by a falling tree. Id like to know where the Environment Agency is. We have seen nobody today at all. Nobodys been round. A bbc investigation uncovers further claims of preventable baby deaths at an nhs trust. Coming up on afternoon live, all the sport with jane dougal. Hello. Storm ciara has impacted sport too. The postponed scotland against england womens six nations
match is under way now, after extreme weather in glasgow meant it couldnt go ahead over the weekend. Thanks,jane, and nick miller has the weather. So much weather disruption, simon. Storm ciara may be moving away but the disruption continues. More on the disruption continues. More
Other as action and against each other as well. Both wales and ireland have new coaches and after winning their opening games last weekend grand slam is still on for both sides, but ireland know they will have to improve on their performance last weekend when theyjust got over the line with scotland. It has been a trademark of the irish team over the la st trademark of the irish team over the last few years, to be physically dominant, and our thoughts were last week we had it in part but we were not as consistent as we usually are in that aspect of the game. We know we have to step that up a little bit this week, find that consistency, so we dont let teams off the hook and we dont let teams off the hook and we just keep putting pressure on in terms of dominance. Theyre a very, very physical team and if you let them get on the front foot, theyre very, very dangerous so weve got to be very careful about the areas we play in and make sure that we match that physicality thats obviously goi
Today at 05 00 growing concerns about the coronavirus outbreak. Chinese authorities confirm the death toll has climbed to 26 as they struggle to cope with the increasing number of patients. Here, the governments emergency cobra committee. Officials say they want to trace 2000 people whove flown into the uk from china in the last fortnight. Well have the latest guidance from the chief medical officer. The other main stories on bbc news at 5. A coroner says the death of this baby at a Maternity Unit in kent was wholly avoidable. Words cannot do itjustice but we have suffered a lot over the last couple of years and we hope that todayis couple of years and we hope that today is the start of a new
beginning for us. Harry dunns family say theyll continue their fight after the us refuses to extradite the woman accused of causing his death. A woman who was attacked byJoseph Mccann, one of the countrys most dangerous sex offenders who was wrongly released from prison, tells the bbc shes never r