whorlton hall, in county durham.s of this privately owned, publicly funded hospital, secret filming by the bbc�*s panorama programme showed people with learning disabilities and autism being taunted and mistreated. see that tiny, tiny car? i can see it. guess whose car it is? who? this is alex. she's severely autistic. teesside crown court was played secret filming from 2019, which showed how staff dealt with her becoming increasingly upset. herfamily has given permission for her to be identified. if you carry on screaming, what i'll do is, me and matthew will sit here and you two can go. did you hear that? no! peter bennett and his colleague, matthew banner, were senior care workers. alex is frightened of men, but they sent female staff away. her screams were so loud, they could be heard at the end of the corridor. they also taunted alex with what was described to the undercover reporter as the "man button", threatening to call more men in. is that five men? no! six men now, please. in their defence, the court was t

whorlton hall, in county durham.s of this privately—owned, publicly—funded hospital, secret filming by the bbc�*s panorama programme showed people with learning disabilities and autism being taunted and mistreated. see that tiny, tiny car? i can see it. guess whose car it is? who? this is alex. she's severely autistic. teesside crown court was played secret filming from 2019, which showed how staff dealt with her becoming increasingly upset. herfamily has given permission for her to be identified. if you carry on screaming, what i'll do is, me and matthew will sit here and you two can go. did you hear that? no! peter bennett and his colleague, matthew banner, were senior care workers. alex is frightened of men, but they sent female staff away. her screams were so loud, they could be heard at the end of the corridor. they also taunted alex with what was described to the undercover reporter as the "man button", threatening to call more men in. is that five men? no! six men now, please. in their defence, the court was t

investigation by bbc panorama which showed some staff mocking, taunting and swearing at patients at whorlton halle care staff were cleared of wrongdoing. teachers in england have been on strike for the fourth time this year, as the pay dispute between the national education union and the government continues. today's industrial action affected thousands of schools. meanwhile, the fa cup final and the eurovision song contest could both be affected by new strike dates announced by two rail unions. elsewhere, a judge has ruled that the next strike in england by nurses over the bank holiday weekend has to be cut short by a day. ajudge is to decide whether phone hacking claims brought by hugh grant and prince harry against a newspaper publisher can go to trial after a three day hearing concluded. news group newspapers is trying to have their claims thrown out. if it were to go ahead, it's likely to be next year. spain has recorded its hottest ever temperature for april, hitting 38,8 degrees celsius on thursday. that's about 102 degrees fehrenheit. the record figure was reached in cordoba airport in so