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00:00Alright, so one of our main stories this morning now.
00:23CCTV footage shows the moment a man carrying a baseball bat repeatedly knocks on a neighbour's
00:28door in Northfleet after destroying his own home with the weapon.
00:32Medway Magistrates Court heard the 26-year-old, who was drunk at the time, claimed he had
00:36earlier been attacked by someone and had the metal baseball bat for protection.
00:41While he was later charged with being in possession of an offensive weapon in public, Kristen
00:45Hawthorne has the story.
00:48This CCTV shows the moment a man turned up at someone's home with a baseball bat after
00:52earlier smashing up his own home with the weapon.
00:55The 26-year-old, who was drunk at the time, claimed he had earlier been attacked by a
00:58neighbour and had the baseball bat for protection, but had not intended to use it.
01:03Arriving at about 9.30pm, the man was reportedly known to the homeowner, who later called the
01:08police after opening the door and asking him why he had the weapon.
01:12Officers attended moments later and he was detained.
01:15A probation officer who interviewed the Northfleet man told the court that he was emotional after
01:20a fallout with his family, leading him to drinking lager and smashing his phone.
01:24He then got the bat and started hitting his wall.
01:27After this, he said he was cornered and attacked by a frustrated neighbour before going to
01:31this house with the bat.
01:32Magistrates called Daniel Bav's actions intimidating and sentenced him to a 12-month community order,
01:39100 hours of unpaid work and 20 rehabilitation sessions.
01:43Kristen Hawthorne for KMTV.
01:48Now a group of Formula One-loving Year 6 pupils from Snodland near Maidstone have followed
01:54in the footsteps of their heroes and become champions after winning a national competition.
01:59Striking Force designed and built their very own cardboard Formula One model before racing
02:04it against more than 600 others, taking into account aerodynamics, computer modelling and
02:11of course, quick reaction time.
02:13Well I went down to meet the team and take a look at their custom-built wind tunnel.
02:18But first, here's the moment they were crowned the winners.
02:21Striking Force!
02:24Design, engineering and speed.
02:27These Year 6 pupils from Snodland Primary have become champions after winning the F1
02:32in Schools National Finals, one of the UK's largest science and technology school competitions
02:38of its kind.
02:39Known as Striking Force, Leon, Jake, Thomas and Hugo were tasked with building their own
02:45Formula One team, complete with logo, merchandise and of course, racing car.
02:50Our car is based off of McLaren's cars, they're blue, black and orange.
02:56So we have all our sponsors on the sides.
02:59We designed our logo based on a target, because we're always striking for the fastest car.
03:06I take a look at F1 quite a fair bit and I take a lot of inspiration from it, so taking
03:12streamlined design and taking as much inspiration as like the goods stuff.
03:19When put to the test, the car clocked an impressive 1.832 seconds on the 20 metre track, making
03:26it the fastest on the grid.
03:27It was probably one of the most amazing experiences ever.
03:30I mean, everyone was so happy and it was just a great day for everyone.
03:34And of course a big part of the design process was studying the car's aerodynamics to make
03:39small fine-tuning adjustments to get extra speed on the car.
03:44Now I'm going to be given a demonstration of how the wind tunnel works, which in fact
03:49they built themselves.
03:50So there's a smoke generator connected to this remote here, there's a pipe going into
03:56the disperser, which disperses the smoke evenly, then there's the fan that's sucking the air
04:03through the wind tunnel, and then there's this part that just supplies everything with
04:10air so that the smoke can travel fast.
04:15The group all came together thanks to their keen love for Formula One.
04:18I'm told all Lewis Hamilton fans, by the way.
04:21Their teacher, Mr Smith, noticed that the school was in need of an F1 club.
04:26The F1 club has really brought in children from different areas around the school.
04:30It's given them a chance to really build on those personal social skills, public talking,
04:35speaking amongst their peers, presenting in front of others.
04:38It's a great chance for them to really build those skills.
04:40So after nine months of developing their winning formula, it's clear these youngsters
04:45have set themselves up for a future of success.
04:48Bartholomew Hall for KMTV in Snodland.
04:52But now, after collapsing outside Medway Maritime's A&E department, 31-year-old Nicole Scott says
05:00she was told to stop crying as other patients were worse off than her.
05:04Nicole has endometriosis, a disease in which cells like those in the lining of the uterus
05:09grow in other parts of the body.
05:11She was in agony after a procedure elsewhere two days before and then rushed to the Medway hospital.
05:16But as a qualified nurse herself, she didn't expect the treatment that she got and the
05:21hospital has now apologised and says it's committed to learning from the feedback.
05:26Kristen Hawthorne joins us now with more on this story.
05:29Just take us through what happened.
05:31So she went into the hospital on Sunday the 16th of March, last month obviously.
05:38She started to develop the severe pain after she had a transvaginal scan with her specialist
05:44in London two days prior to this.
05:48That then sort of caused a flare-up of a rare cyst that she had.
05:54She fainted, like you said, outside the hospital.
05:58She had pain in her legs.
05:59This is why she needs to be in wheelchairs and stuff and she used walking sticks sometimes.
06:04And in the next couple of pictures you'll be able to see what it looks like when she
06:06does have a flare-up.
06:08But when she got to the hospital, she was told that you need to stop crying.
06:12I have patients in here who have had legs falling off who aren't acting like you.
06:18Because she was a nurse, she was able to tell that this was sort of drug-seeking behaviour.
06:23They were sort of trying to check if she was on drugs or not.
06:26But she feels like she just should have had more compassion and she lodged a full complaint.
06:32We know that NACOL is obviously supporting Endometriosis UK's call for healthcare providers,
06:38those who work in the sector, to have more awareness of endometriosis.
06:42This is one of the big issues that we often hear from campaigners, that there just isn't
06:46enough understanding and perhaps that's why this oversight was caused.
06:50Because it's a condition where you're unable to, it's an invisible condition, you can't
06:55see the effects of it.
06:58And when someone says that they are going through the pain, that they want to be heard
07:03and they feel like that's just not happening.
07:05Exactly.
07:06I mean, just to give you some figures, around 1 in 10 women in the UK suffer from the disease.
07:13Despite this, Endometriosis UK, which is the charity that she's working with to spread
07:19awareness, they said it takes an average of 8 years and 10 months for a person's first
07:24GP visit to get a diagnosis of endometriosis.
07:26So these women are in pain for years before they get any sort of validation or professional
07:32help for their diagnosis specifically.
07:34Yeah, we've seen recently, we've reported here on the Morning Show, that an endometriosis
07:39pill could be offered now for the millions of women that do suffer with it.
07:42It's only going to be available to around 1,000 or so and it's as a last sort of stage
07:47in efforts to try and treat endometriosis.
07:50There are operations you can have as well, so it's even after that, so you can imagine
07:55if there's 8 years waiting, you can imagine how long that might take, but there are more
07:59conversations being had around endometriosis and it's becoming something we're a lot more
08:03aware of.
08:04Exactly.
08:05I mean, when Nicola had to go to, or Nicole had to go to the hospital, she had to be given
08:10morphine, so she was in a lot of pain.
08:14Endometriosis UK says that they want every healthcare practitioner to recognise the signs
08:18and symptoms of the condition, including GPs, gynaecologists, A&E nurses and pharmacists.
08:25They said without a diagnosis and access to care, the disease can progress and it can
08:29have a huge impact on all aspects of someone's life, both in their physical health, their
08:35mental health, education, relationship, it can have a huge effect on every area of a
08:39woman's life.
08:40Julian, good to have you back on the sofa.
08:45Let's talk about this cancer study to begin with.
08:46It comes from the Daily Mail, this story, which says, working out for just two days
08:50a week may be enough to keep cancers and heart diseases at bay.
08:55What do we know about this?
08:57This is looking at how many minutes of exercise you need to do a week and how you split that
09:02up.
09:03And it actually looks like a well-run study.
09:06It's over 100,000 people between the ages of 37 and 73 in the UK, following up only
09:12for three years, I have to say, but still it did show some significant results.
09:17What they found was there was a split between some people who spread their 150 minutes of
09:22exercise throughout the week and other people who were sort of weekend warriors, so they
09:26did it all at the weekend.
09:28And there's always been a concern that one or the other might be better.
09:31What it turned out to be was pretty much the same and it does give people an option because
09:36it means that rather than having to go out and exercise every day, you could go and do
09:40two much longer sessions, 75 minutes per day, on a Saturday or a Sunday.
09:46But I think that's where the challenge is because 75 minutes is a long time.
09:49And in terms of sports centres, leisure centres, gyms, do you think there need to be more free
09:53centres around across the county?
09:57Because a lot of people will be saying they just can't afford a gym membership or might
10:00be spending a lot of money on one that they're not using.
10:03Yes, it's a pity that local authorities have moved funding away from centres, which means
10:07that people are having to pay more for the price of it and certainly private sports centres
10:14and gyms and so on are really quite expensive and a lot of people can't afford it.
10:19So we need to be able to support that side of things.
10:22But also I think people need to think about that you do need to invest in your health.
10:26There's a danger in the UK that you tend to think health is what the NHS does to you,
10:30but actually far more important is what you do for yourself.
10:34And overall I imagine it would make the NHS run a lot smoother and take a lot of that
10:41pressure off if perhaps more money was put into health centres and sort of starting at
10:46that base.
10:47Well this study showed a 24% reduction in overall death rates and that's over three
10:52years so it really is quite significant and if you look at the impact that has on the
10:57health service it makes a big difference.
10:59It frees up appointments, it reduces costs that we can spend on other people.
11:03And just lastly Julian, I wanted to bring you the last headline.
11:07The public satisfaction within the NHS has hit a new low, 21% said they were satisfied
11:12in 2024.
11:13Are you worried and where do you think the satisfaction with GPs sits at the minute?
11:19I'm worried, but I think it's because it reflects the situation in the NHS, that it's not keeping
11:25up with demand, it's got a big backlog of treatment, whether it's getting to see a GP
11:29or going to hospital or having an operation or whatever.
11:33In real practice we are seeing people being less and less satisfied, we see more complaints
11:38because they can't get an appointment properly, despite the fact about 40% of GP appointments
11:42are the same day someone's requested it.
11:45Other people feel unhappy that they've waited longer.
11:47And that impacts both on the patient but also on my staff, we have people who are just rude
11:53right up to threatening and aggressive or damaging the surgery.