Were facing unacceptable stress. The letter comes after two days of unrest at the mount establishment In Hertfordshire. Mark lobel reports. There have been days of disorder at Prisons Wiltshire and hertfordshire where riot trained officers were deployed to subdue unruly prisoners. This past year has brought an average of 20 attacks a day on staff in prisons in england and wales, following a decline in the number of Prison Officers over the past few years and complaints over pay. Now the president of Prison Governors Association is publicly blaming the government for what she calls a crisis in many jails and unacceptable stress and anxiety amongst workers. In an open letter to Prison Governors, Andrea Albutt says the state has failed to help them cope with Population Pressures in prison, having changed the way the prisons are run for the worse. Ms albutt says the governments decision taken earlier this year to separate operational control of the Prison System from responsibility for policy was madness, leaving a gaping hole in operational knowledge the Ministry Ofjustice says it recognises the long standing challenges facing prisons and that its recruiting more officers. But with only 75 more in place since last year, ms albutt said recruitment remains in a critical condition. Danjohnson dan johnson is here. Danjohnson is here. Dan, how bad is it . This letter makes clear that things are ina this letter makes clear that things are in a state of crisis. Had this isa are in a state of crisis. Had this is a really strongly worded letter to, it is an open letter, but directed at the Ministry Ofjustice highlighting what she feels they need to put right. She talks of a crisis. She says there is concerted indiscipline and a toxic mix that doesnt have a quick mix and the future looks well suffer more of the same. She says recruitment remains critical. She talks about the Selection Process which is allowing many unsuitable people through. She says the quality of training is poor and new recruits can add to the instability of prisons. She says she is devastated at the complete decline of our service and that is why, that would seem to be her explanation, for what we have seen repeated disorder during over the last couple of days. Repeated disorder at the mount prison and we have seen trouble at other prisons. There is widespread agreement that our prisons are in crisis and something needs to change. In response to the open letter, what are the Ministry Of Justice saying . We have a statement from the Ministry Ofjustice. Theyve addressed the issue that Andrea Albutt highlighted about the new system they have put in place and the way they have split operational control with the way policy is set. They say that the creation of this new prison and Probation Service was designed to help create a professionalised front line service. They say they know that prisons have faced a number of long standing challenges which is why they have taken action to boost Prison Officer numbers, but Andrea Albutt says thats not increasing quickly enough. They say they need a calm environment, but she is clear thats not happening at the minute. Dan, thank you very much indeed. Well hear from the president of the Prison Governors Association at 10am. If you work in a prison or have direct experience of them, we are really keen to hear from you this morning. Please get in touch. Ben brown is in the bbc newsroom with a summary of the rest of the days news. The duke of edinburgh will carry out his final Public Engagement this afternoon before he retires from official royal duties. Prince philip, who is 96 years old, will attend a parade by the Royal Marines. In may it was announced he would be retiring after spending more than six decades supporting the queen as well as attending events for his own charities and organisations. Heres our Royal Correspondent, nicholas witchell. He has been a familiar and sometimes forthright feature of National Life ever since his marriage to the then Princess Elizabeth in November 1947 and although his robust approach to people and events has sometimes got him into trouble, few can criticise his devotion to royal duty, most often in support of the queen, but also in pursuit of his own separate programme, supporting issues like the environment and the Development Of The Awards Programme for young people which he created and which is named after him. But this afternoon it will come to an end. The duke, who was 96 injune, will attend his last solo engagement, a parade by the Royal Marines on the forecourt of Buckingham Palace. Its not a complete retirement from public life. The duke may still accompany the queen to certain events, but after more than 22,000 Solo Engagements and moe than 600 solo overseas visits since the queen came to the throne, it does mark a significant moment both for the duke and for the queen. No longer will she have her husband at her side for most of her public appearances, other younger members of the royal family will take his place, as the self declared leading Plaque Unveiler in the world finally takes things a little easier. A bbc investigation has found a growing shortfall in the number of beds needed to care for elderly people across the uk. By the end of next year, its predicted that up to 3,000 people wont be able to find a place in a care home. The association of directors of Adult Social Services is calling for more money to be spent on nurses and carers so people can receive care in their own homes for longer. More than one million women in their early 60s are worse off financially as a result of the increase in the state pension age, a think tank says. The Institute For Fiscal Studies found that raising the age from 60 to 63 was saving the government £5 billion a year. But those affected were losing more than £30 a week on average. The Department For Work And Pensions says the changes are fair because of rising life expectancy. There are calls to renationalise Probation Services following a rise in the number of supervised offenders charged with serious crimes. A total of 517 reviews were triggered in the last year after an offender on probation was charged with murder, manslaughter, rape or other serious offences. Three years ago the government changed the way Probation Services were run in 2014, creating the national Probation Service to deal with high Risk Offenders with the rest being supervised by 21 new Community Rehabilitation companies. The charity, save the children, says more than a million children in yemen are at higher risk of dying from cholera. Two years of civil war has led to severe humanitarian crisis with the country on the brink of famine and nearly 500,000 people infected with the disease. America is not seeking to invade north korea or oust its leader kim jong un, according to its secretary of state, rex tillerson. He was speaking after a senior republican senator said that President Trump considered going to war as an option. Last week north korea carried out a second test of an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile in defiance of a United Nations ban. Police looking for the missing airman, corrie mckeague, say theyre examining whether material found at an Incinerator Plant in ipswich is linked to him. The 23 year old was last seen Neara Bin Loading Bay following a night out in suffolk last september. Police ended a 20 week search of a nearby Landfill Site last month. Kanye wests Touring Company is suing lloyds of london for nearly £8 million over the rappers cancelled gigs. Very good touring said in a legal document that the insurers have implied they can refuse to pay out by claiming his Mental Health issues were caused by marijuana use. West was forced to cancel the remaining 21 dates of his tour last year after falling ill and was treated at a Psychiatric Centre in los angeles. Well, thats a summary of our news. More from me at 9. 30am. We will have more on the kanye west story before 10am. Do get in touch with us throughout the morning use the Hashtag Victoria Live and if you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Lets get some sport now with katherine downes. And, kat, everyones gearing up for the return of usain bolt to the olympic stadium. Yes, sadly we havejust yes, sadly we have just a yes, sadly we havejust a matter of days now, dont we, before we can refer to usain bolt as a forlter athlete. After the World Championships in london he will be retiring from the sport and what a legacy, he will leave. Eight 0lympic gold medals and three World Records including the 9. 58 and here he is posing with his normalflamboyant personality. He said that he hopes that those World Records will last for yea rs that those World Records will last for years and years to come so that he can boast to any future children that he may have that one day their dad was the greatest ever. He has been, hasnt he . Athletics and sport in general will lose its brightest star in decades once he bows out after the World Championships in london. A man who not only set records and won records, but stood asa records and won records, but stood as a beacon of integrity and honesty. The shadow of the problem of doping within its ranks and many of doping within its ranks and many of bolts Sporting Rivals have succumbed to that temptation, mo recently his team mate, nester carter. He is appealing against that decision, but here is what usain bolt had to say about the threat of doping in his sport. We made changes and the sport pretty much Hit Rock Bottom last season, a couple of seasons ago. Now its moving forward. I think its going in the right direction. As long as athletes understand, if they keep this up, the sport will die and they wont have a job. Hopefully the athlete also understand that and that they will help the sport move forward. Will he go out on a high . Wherever he races and whom ever he races, you Wa Nt He Races and whom ever he races, you want him to win. Six athletes have run faster than him over the 100 meters this year, but bolt says he is still the greatest and he is ready to take on the world once again. Im excited now. This is the moment im looking forward to. I think after the race, moment im looking forward to. I think afterthe race, or during moment im looking forward to. I think after the race, or during the race, then the emotioning will come out, it depends on how the crowd reacts. If there is 1,000 cheering, i will be happy, but they always find ways of get emotions out of you. Yes, it is the last race. I come in here focussed and ready to go as always. As i said over the years, i try not to put extra pressure 011 years, i try not to put extra pressure on myself. Im focussed on getting the job done and thats what im going to do. Usain bolt gets his final World Championships under way on friday and you will be able to see sir Mo Farah In Action on friday as well in the 10,000 meters. So a big opening day of the World Championships. Im looking forward to that. And, kat, youve got some outstanding baseball action to show us . They are spectacular. At a Baseball Game between the Cleveland Indians and the boston red soc, look at this catch. 0ver and the boston red soc, look at this catch. Over the barrierfrom austin jackson. This has been talked about on the internet as the best catch everin on the internet as the best catch ever in baseball. Lets look at it from another angle. That does count asa from another angle. That does count as a catch. You can see the official just checking that it counts. The rules are complicated, but it does count as a catch. Is it the best ever . I havent seen anything better than that, kat, i have to admit. That was incredible. Thank you very much. No problem. Only a month ago, this programme reported that the quality of care for the elderly in the uk was approaching a Tipping Point. The care watchdog the Care Quality Commission said that a quarter of all care homes were not safe enough. Now new figures suggest there is also a huge shortfall in the number of beds available. The data commissioned by bbc radio 4s you and yours programme from Property Consultantsjll suggests that in nine years, the shortfall could be more than 70,000 beds, based on the expected growth of demand. Up to 3,000 elderly people wont be able to get beds in care homes because of growing demand by the end of next year. And its already a problem for some now. We can speak to catherine bond, whos here with her children beatrice and sam. It took catherines family seven months to find a space in a care home for her mother elizabeth, who is 93. Amanda waring cared for her parents in her own home, and wrote a book called the carers bible. She thinks we need to face up to the reality that in the future well need to look after the elderly more in our own homes. In leeds is sue 0shea. Her aunt seen here on her 90th birthday and her cousin both live in a care home in bradford which is closing down. And in our salford studio is ryan godwin who owns welcome to the programme. Catherine, lets start with you. Why did it ta ke lets start with you. Why did it take seven months . My mother had been living with us. She was diagnosed with vascular dementia in 2012, so she moved to our home in east london, from outside of the capital, so a completely new part of the country for her. So we took it on ourselves to look after her, but in 2016, early 2016, she came down with pneumonia and was admitted to oui with pneumonia and was admitted to our local hospital, and essentially she was there for six months. She was what i would describe as bed blocking, and during that time i was campaigning to get a better care package for her, because she had been receiving social Services Package from our local authority, which had its shortfalls, and clearly it was very challenging for oui clearly it was very challenging for ourfamily, particularly clearly it was very challenging for our family, particularly for my children, having carers coming into oui children, having carers coming into our home, it felt like an institution rather than a family home after a while. Your mother elizabeth, 93, was in hospitalfor six months . Thats right. Bed blocking, as you call it, because i ca re blocking, as you call it, because i care home, a bed, wasnt available . It was to do really with the inertia of the services. We were campaigning to try to get her a better package. In the beginning we didnt know whether she would be coming back to oui whether she would be coming back to our home whether we would be able to getan our home whether we would be able to get an alternative. What we did know, during the time she was in hospital, she was only six, i would say, forfour weeks. In that hospital, she was only six, i would say, for four weeks. In that time she lost the ability to walk, she was losing her cognitive skills. She was losing her cognitive skills. She was not eating properly. Why . The Resources U Nfortu Nately were was not eating properly. Why . The resources unfortunately were not there. It is not only the nhs, but also the fact that a lot of agency staff, there is a very high turnover of staff, so there was very little consistency, and physiotherapists we re consistency, and physiotherapists were not able to engage with her. As her daughter, living locally, i was trying to liaise with them, perhaps to even help out with sessions, but it just wasnt happening to even help out with sessions, but itjust wasnt happening so she lost the ability to do many things, which meant she no longer could have the package she had had before. For example, she couldnt get out of bed without two people helping her. She needed more help eating, she needed total Help Dressing and washing, which meant our home, which Isjust A Normalfamily which meant our home, which isjust a normal family home, which meant our home, which