this is bbc news, i'm lukwesa burak. the headlines at 2pm. the headlines: cabinet ministers the three cabinet ministers face a call to resign man brexit be delayed if the after going public with a warning they're prepared to delay brexit government fails to secure a deal in rather than leave the next few days. the eu without a deal. r kelly is due to appear in court if ministers or cabinet ministers charged with ten counts of sexual cannot support the government's abuse, some of them against underage position, then they have to resign. girls. clashes in venezuela, while zayn for a record 12th win in as opposition activists attempt to bring humanitarian aid a row when it faces england in the into the country from neighbouring colombia. polling stations are six nations —— mike wales —— wales closing in nigeria, where millions of people have been voting in presidential and parliamentary elections. here's the scene in lagos where votes are being counted. the singer r kelly is due to appear aims... time for inside out. we in court in chicago on a series of sexual abuse charges. report on a scheme to help carers in liverpool, and inspirational eco warrior on the isle of man, and zimmerframes warrior on the isle of man, and zimmer frames on crutches costing the nhs millions. —— zimmerframes

and crutches. hello and welcome to inside out north west, with me, jacey normand. the millions of crutches and zimmer frames could save millions of pounds. i contacted the local authority and nobody would touch it. we meet the volunteers who want to clean up the isle of man. everybody wants to be involved, it has become infectious. i had nothing. and the liverpool charity caring for the carers. it is important all the carers find out about it. it is important all the carers find out about it.

remember those crutches stashed away in the loft? do you still need the walking frame in the hall? we ve discovered millions of pounds is going to waste on mobility equipment and daily living aids that campaigners say could be reused. the bbc‘s disability correspondent, nikki fox, has been investigating. today we re in the glorious splendor of blackwell, a wonderful, architectural example of the arts and crafts movement. nestled in amongst the fells of the lake district. i m delighted the house is hosting my very own road show— is hosting my very own road show let's see what treasure comes through the door. my first guest has come hundreds of miles to get his valuation. its the kind of equipment his mother used at home. so, christopher, when you no longer needed this equipment for your mum, what did you try to do with it? i was able to return the zimmer frame to the hospital. that was fine, the rest of the kit

i approached the local authority and discovered that nobody would take it and they actually suggested i take it to the local tip. so, phil, you're our expert. we ve got this equipment here, this is a furniture raiser for raising a chair with wooden legs, such as queen anne legs. queen anne legs? and how much would that cost? somewhere in the region of £40 to £45. and that s a grabber isn t it? yeah. to buy new, probably £8 to £10. what is that down there? this is a raised toilet seat on a frame. again probably in the region of £40. walking frame, zimmer frame to buy new would probably cost in the region of £25. so how much, this is the big question? so how much is it all going to cost? probably cost £150 to £200. £150 to £200 christopher? i find that quite shocking. quite shocking if you multiply

by all the people in my mothers village who have this sort of kit. and then you multiply that by the number of villages in the area. it is a huge amount of money. i d happily have that i m always dropping stuff. its yours! so now you know this is £150 to £200, this is the antiques road show, you wouldn t want to part with it would you? too right, i would. i m desperate to get rid of it! ive got nowhere to put it, its no use for me and should be of use to someone else. my next guest is roy, a man with a keen interest in this type of period equipment. phil how much would these cost? adjustable walking stick, £15 to £20 to buy new. crutches to buy new, £25. and they're in good nick? both in good condition, no reason why they can t be reused. so roy, what do you want to do with them? do you want to let them go, keep them? hard decision! i think we should actually return them back to the hospital and ask them to take them to take them back

and put them back into use. as a councillor in lancashire, roy has been urging his local hospital to take equipment back. they said they needed to be cleaned up to a certain extent, to stop that cross contamination from being accepted back and issued to another person. there is no wear and tear on the bottom. ok the handles look a bit dirty. as you say, a wet one will cover it up, wipe it off — back into use. job's a good ‘un. spot on. so i asked all health authorities and councils in england a few questions. how much they spent on equipment, and how many items were recycled in a year? across england we spent a whopping £207 million on equipment like zimmer frames and crutches. and later, ill reveal which region gets my award for being top of the class when it comes to returns — the golden crutch! so, in my garage here, i ve had lots of stuff donated, of which this is some of it. hopefully its going to make it into my shop, otherwise its going to be scrapped, as it would have been anyway. my research will come as no surprise to terry in devon. he opened his shop, desperate to see equipment reused. and some of them still have the wrapping on them which shows they have never been used, the collapsible zimmer

worth their weight in gold. still got the stickers on from delivery. you can imagine for someone to buy this would be very expensive. if people have a centre, a point they can go to and they know this stuff can be delivered, they can get their friend to take it there. they would be delighted then that it could be used again because these people are so frustrated and they are annoyed. the annoyance is obvious when they come into the shop, but i hear the same story, phoned, don t want it chuck it away. if i can do it, i m just one old geezer in okehampton, sleepy little okehampton why cant the national health and the council do it between them? there has to be a policy in place to say, "do this." last year, the health secretary urged nhs staff to recycle equipment. but the onus is on individual hospitals to set up their own scheme. and in one part of the country, terry s prayers have been answered. so, mark, what happens here?

this is our decontamination holding area. all the equipment that you see here has been collected yesterday and is now waiting to go into the first stage of cleaning into what we call the red side. so this is all kit people have used but they no longer need. this service was set up six years ago by the nhs in barnsley. there is so much equipment here, what is this part? this is the end product this is equipment that has been recycled and is now obviously been put back in use for the community again. so this is all waiting to be collected for the next delivery. so how much money do you save doing what you do? in the last financial year we collected 111,000 equipment items. of those 111,000 items 94% was able to be recycled again and to be put back into the community so that equates to about £300,000.

john is a regular user of the service. hello! it s nhs community equipment, ive got a new shower chair for you, mate. does it bother you that it has been used before? do you care? no, not really. if you had not told me i would not have known. at the end of day, even if they're recycled or not, it does the job i need it to do, whether it is brand new or not. so, the nhs in barnsley has got its act together. but what about local authorities? my figures show councils splashed out £187 million last year. they handed out around 3.5 million items. just over two million were returned ? although of course that includes kit that could have been on loan for several years. no one from the local government authority wanted to speak to me. instead they told me...

so, which part of the country is the most diligent at recycling equipment like this? who is in for the golden crutch? and the winner of the coveted golden crutch is the west midlands. any words? i am in tears because it is absolutely freezing, but thank you from all the people in the west midlands, it means a lot to us. respect. respect! the isle of man is often called thejewel in the irish sea.

it has around 100 miles of coastline, bursting with wildlife. but something rather special is happening there. every week teams of volunteers help clean up its beaches. and it all began with one man, whose quest was to make it the cleanest island in the world. the isle of man is known for its rugged coastline and rural landscape, halfway between england and ireland, it attracts a wonderful array of wildlife. here you might see razorbills are rare birds. that is just the start. this is the sound on the south of the island and one of the best places to come and see the wildlife. there are seals, dolphins and in the summer, basking sharks. but, like so many places around the world, this incredible nature is under threat from plastics.

tonnes of it gets washed up, brought in and dumped by the tides. we see the seals with ropes around their necks, sea birds with the plastic rings from beer cans. but something is being done, a litter picking revolution is happening and it is down to one man. there is nothing to match what is going on here, everybody wants to be involved. he is on a mission to make this island, the cleanest in the world. it is tuesday afternoon at port erin beach. it is beautiful, but take a closer look... bits of rope and plastic are everywhere. bill dale wants to clear it, but he cannot do it on his own. so he has called in the cavalry.

good lad. put that in there. here is another piece. the children of a primary school have an hour to scour the sand and seaweed and pick up as much plastic as they can. well done. what have you got there? well done. it started in 2007, 12 years ago and i was walking my dogs on the beach. i decided we would pick up little bits of litter we saw. i set the task to clear the beach and we picked up 30,000 plastic bottles because they were buried underneath each other. it was incredible. i didn't think we'd get as much of this. loads of little bits. i keep saying these little pieces, as on the blue planet series, and david attenborough showed, these are the things in the stomachs of little birds and it is killing them. the children have become so interested in what bill is doing,

they have adopted the beach and made a pledge to keep it clean. you wonder why people would do that because they know creatures are living under the ocean and it is causing them damage. we have found lots of string today. bad stuff at the moment, it could kill lots of animals. it is the concern for the wildlife that is their main motivation and on an island like this, it is no wonder. the calf of man sits off the south of the island. i have come to meet the manx wildlife trust. we have grey seals around the isle of man. they are not cited very often, but grey seals are here without a doubt.

they are one species that suffer from large pieces of marine plastic. a lot of the plastic in the ocean also comes from the fishing industry so we see a lot of plastic rope that caught around the seal's necks. but we cannot capture them and take the rope off them. at port erin beach, it is nearly time for the children to head home. you have got rope, goodlad. anything else? look how much they have collected injust an hour. has it been a good day, guys? theirjob is done for today but bill has to prepare for another clean. the beach bodies meet every sunday in this weekend they are going to an area they have

never cleaned before. this will show people what the beaches were like 12 years ago when we started. it will be an eye—opener for some of them. in 2014 bill set of beach bodies, a network of beach bodies. there are 11,500 members. not bad for an island of 84,000. we will try to get the stuff onto the lifeboat. the guys have been collecting all sorts of things and we have already shifted about six, huge bags. you could be in manchester or wherever, if you throw things like this into a stream, it ends up out to sea and then on the beach. today, about 100 volunteers have come along and some have been helping the years. we have been here for about 20 minutes and we just carry on and there is so much to.

it is quite depressing, you just makes you realise what a problem we have. three years ago the isle of man gained status from unesco and bill dale was recognised for the work he had done for making one of this the best places in the world to view nature. last year, he was awarded an accolade by the queen and then he received an accolade for his outstanding contribution to manx life. this doesn't exist anywhere else. bill believes they pick up 200

tonnes of rubbish every year. he is not going to stop now, he is determined for this island to be the cleanest in the world. lets face it, my generation has messed up big style and we have left it for the children of today to try and sort this out. ifeel a big responsibility to try and sort this out. around seven million people in the uk are carers, looking after elderly or disabled relatives and loved ones. and new figures out this month reveal that every day, more than 600 people quit work to become carers. for many its more than a full—time job — exhausting and draining, both financially and emotionally. but in liverpool there is an organisation which exists to help the carers.

ive been to find out more. they look like a group of friends and enjoying a regular get together, but the truth is far from that. all of these people are carers, who hardly ever get out to enjoy themselves. in fact, some are meeting for the first time. i care for my husband who has alzheimer's. also a special needs daughter who we adopted. carey means you care, but it doesn't hit you until you are actually doing it. notjust day, but night—time as well and there is no respite. but today they have some respite, a well earned break courtesy of a charity which has been set up to care for liverpool's carers. if you ask carers what is the one thing and that is to have a break.

they don't want to give the caring role up, but to have some time for themselves. my time is the brainchild of hazel brown who has been working with carers for years. we have asked some hotels if they could help us. the first hotel we wrote to is a care of themselves and understood what we were trying to do. they gave us the first overnight, complimentary break and it has grown from there. it is a simple ideas carers regard as a godsend. i know inside i need a break every now and then, because everything gets too much for me. and my time has made it possible. i cannot take care of my wife properly unless i am feeling ok in myself. it really helps. it is a great chance to meet people

who genuinely understand. when you get there, you can tell somebody your problem who knows. tell them what you are going through. this event is hosted by one of liverpool's upmarket waterfront hotels, which also lays on overnight breaks. it is easy, donating one night when you don't sell the rooms anyway. working with hazel and trying to promote other cities around the uk to do it. it is notjust tea parties and overnight stays in hotels. my time also offers water sports on the mersey, trips to the races, special parties just for carers, tickets for the football or the theatre and a range of other experiences designed to help carers feel special once again. may be the first event they come to, they think they shouldn't be here and they want to go home.

but then they realise yes they can and bring back what is inside them. it is about them, it is my time. it is estimated one in eight adults in the uk are carers, saving the economy over £130 billion a year. liz kenny's life was turned upside down when her husband was diagnosed with early onset alzheimer's disease in his early 50s. it changes what you thought the future was going to hold. it changes when you become, not in a marriage, but become the carer. you don't realise sometimes that you are the carer, because you just suddenly go into the role. shall we do three? liz sold the family home when matthew became ill seven years ago, so she could devote

all of her time for caring for him. no every day is the same, a relentless routine, caring for the man she has loved for 45 years. we cannot have a conversation now. we cannot talk about things in general because he just focuses on tv. i cannot change that, that is his world. despite his alzheimer's, he understands what liz is going through. she hasn't got a life with me now. sometimes, if i wasn't here, she would have a better life. she'sjust too good. the only break in the routine comes with a weekly trip to a dimanche group at his beloved everton football club, where he enjoys football memory sessions and singalongs. it is a full—time job just to get him out. he has this thing about 12 o'clock when he knows he is going to everton and he wants to be out.

but i am doing a million things to secure things before we get out. then we are out, getting the bus. he loves it. he becomes involved because it is about memories and he can go back. a little spark comes back. a little bit of him. the real him, what he used to be. for liz, the chance to break away from the routine has been a lifetime. with my time, i have laughed and enjoyed myself. you don't feel guilty. you have to find yourself sometimes away from the caring role. i think the majority of carers are reaching out for that. it is sunday evening on the wirral coast and another liverpool care is taking advantage of a my time break. this is a rare opportunity to spend some quality time with her eldest daughter.

for the last 27 years, they have been caring for her other daughter, amber, who has physical and behavioural issues. my life revolves around amber, from the morning when she gets up until the evening when she goes to bed. it affects the whole family. even though i feel as if i am dividing my attention to the others, they do feel neglected. there is only a 1k month gap between my other daughter and amber. but mentally it is a big gap and ifeel she has suffered the most, she has lived through everything. she gets the most stressed as well. i think the hardest things for my mum being a carer, has been having to give up a lot of her dreams she would have liked

to have done, because she is always looking after amber and she has had to take care of her. for me, that makes me very sad that she doesn't see how wonderful she is and how much she has achieved. being a carer is an amazing thing as well. i have never been inside a castle before, it is really beautiful. it is so nice, the view is amazing, as soon as we got here... so, whether it is nights at hotels, tickets for special events or posh tea parties, it seems that my time has hit on a simple but effective way to help the hidden heroes of our care system. we chat with other people and you hear what their problems are and that puts your own problems

into perspective sometimes because there are people far worse off than me. it is important that other carers find out about it. i found out about it, i was desperate. it isjust great. it really is. several more days of unusually mild weather for the time of year on the way. there will be a few issues, one

of those this morning was fog, dense in places, and it will be again tomorrow. for many, that is now gone and we are into blue skies. looking at the satellite, lincolnshire is the last to get rid of the misting is, but there will be cloud up to the west delivering patchy rain into northern ireland and west to scotland. it is feeding into wales and england as the afternoon goes on. the strong wind from the west is easing now as we go into tonight. the lion's share of the sunshine is across the east. temperatures lower in scotland once that front moves through. 1a celsius is still respectable for this stage of february. six nations matches this afternoon or looking fine for weather. tonight, here is the

weather. tonight, here is the weather front, the rain weather. tonight, here is the weatherfront, the rainjust about gone, but we keep an area of low cloud, mist and fog, the irish sea, northern england, southern scotland and northern ireland. fog patches elsewhere, dense in places, but mainly clear. south—east england and northern scotland are the clear spots and it will be below freezing. on sunday, high pressure extending across the british isles, keeping things fine. any low cloud, mist and fog that has formed will be slow to clear. in parts of yorkshire, it may be there in the afternoon. that holds the temperature down compared with elsewhere. it will slowly clear for most of us, and we will see sunshine again, and temperatures around the mid—teens. that weather front to the west of scotland could bring rain to the western isles.

there will be some outbreaks of rain in northern scotland on monday. further into the week, fine for a time, but there is a sign of change coming. more cloud around, a greater chance of wet weather, the wind picks up, and as we go into march, it looks more unsettled.