11/08/2011 Look East - East

Hello, welcome to Look East. The Prime Minister praises our

police for coming to the aid of forces in London.

But is under threat because of council cuts - will they still be

running where you live? If it went, I would be like a prisoner in my

own home. Without a bus. A woman has been arrested after the

death of a resident from this care home.

And thousands turned out for the Lowestoft Air Festival. But they

have to brave that some strong Hello. First tonight, the courts

begin to deal with those accused of being involved in disturbances

across the region. Nine people appeared in court today

facing charges for Evette inciting the disorder or been involved in it.

The worst of the trouble was in Milton Keynes, Northampton,

Cambridge and Basildon. More than 70 people have been arrested across

the region, and today five were in court in Milton Keynes.

It may not have been a full on riot, but Tuesday night was a very

different night in Milton Keynes. A large gang gathered in the centre

before making its way around various estates in the town.

Officers from the Thames Valley helping Metropolitan Police in

London had to be called back and two police helicopters were used.

These CCTV pictures in Bletchley show you is picking up fruit. It

was the watermelons that caused this damage. Courts all over our

region today have seen people charged with the recent troubles.

Here in Milton Keynes, several men all appeared before magistrates

charged with violent disorder. All were refused bail and remanded into

custody. They will rip -- they will appear here on 18th August.

The clean-ups have begun, and so to have the legal processes.

There has been praise today from the Prime Minister for the police

from this region who have been helping in London to restore order.

A number of our MPs took part in a debate today, and many of them want

tougher action against the people riot. Andrew Sinclair has spent the

day at Westminster. This has been one of those rare

days when Parliament has come together, condemning the violence

of the last week, and not just the violence in London, Birmingham and

Manchester - MPs were keen to point out that many other places like

Cambridge, Northampton, had also seen their fair share of

lawlessness. From the beaches of France, the

fjords of Scandinavia, and the bustle of New York, our MPs

returned to away at Westminster just for the day. Those whose

constituencies have witnessed trouble were particularly angry.

Any type of ox queues is unwarranted. This is naked greed,

criminality, violence, and it should be dealt with. This is not

down to poverty or deprivation, it is people who think they can get

something for nothing. And it is not acceptable. That anger was also

in evidence in the chamber. these riots had brought -- broke

out in America, the police would have had water-cannon, plastic

bullets and tear-gas. Northamptonshire MP Phillip Holiday

on said the parents of rioters should also have been charged. The

Suffolk MP Matthew Hancock praised his local force for going to

London's it. The Prime Minister was grateful to. I joined him in

praising Suffolk and other forces in East Anglia and Essex, who got

police officers into our capital. The point I made a but the

deployment of officers is one of the lessons we have to learn about

the ability to surge up the numbers when the circumstances require it.

These trials were not about cuts, they were about a lack of hope for

communities, but they cannot be used as an excuse for lawlessness.

The Government today announce that businesses damaged will be able to

claim compensation. What caused this will be debated over the

months ahead, but today was about condemnation.

Bus passengers in the region are facing above-inflation fare rises

and continued cuts in services. That is according to reports by a

committee of MPs, who say that rural, evening and Sunday services

will be most affected. The Transport Select Committee says

the industry is facing the greatest financial challenge for a

generation. Some of the Boston vulnerable including the elderly

will be hit. A big cut in central grants to

local councils after the spending review, and from next April, at 20%

cut in assistance to bus operators. Graveley near St Neots has a bus

shelter and a bus timetable, but locals face a very long wait for a

bus. I have lived here for 40 years, and we had a bus somewhere every

day, to St Neots, Huntingdon, and we could go somewhere near the

everyday. Gradually, one by one they have dropped off, until we are

left with a Saturday service. Which is a shame.

Though rural buses almost -- often seem to be half empty, to those who

use them, they are vital. Mid-morning in the village of

placemacro, and the anxious wait for the local bus. -- Litlington.

The bus can be a lifeline, and for some of the only link to the nearby

town. If it went, I would be like a prisoner in my own home, without a

bus. Without this bus, I would be absolutely lost. I would not get to

the dentist, the doctor, into Royston, and I lost my husband

about 18 months ago and I do not drive. Some have already seen their

buses disappear. Jo Green has a seven year-old son with autism.

They lost their evening service four months ago. We now feel

isolated, and I also feel demoralised. I cannot take my

little boy to these events in the evening. Life is destroyed, really.

K in which a says it will try to introduce alternatives were bus

funding is cut. -- Cambridge shire. But many rural buses are still

running scared. Cambridgeshire council is cutting

�2.7 million in subsidies. It says there will be no further service

reductions until next April. Norfolk has cut its subsidy by

�420,000. It says only three poorly used Saturday services has been

withdrawn. Suffolk is cutting �2.3 million but says negotiations with

operators are under way. Next month and you pre-booked minibus service

in Northamptonshire will link some communities. Essex has spent �8.5

million in bus subsidy is, but says there are no plans for any cuts.

The transport committee highlighted the Luton and Peterborough councils,

where again there has been no reduction in services. This is the

local transport minister Norman Baker, who told us cancels were

free to decide what to do with the money they receive. He would

encourage them to look for more efficiency savings and cuts in top

management before taking the cut -- taking the axe to bus services.

Still to come tonight, the highs and lows from the rain-affected

Lowestoft Air Festival, and Jonathan Park at another sporting

building site. This is the national football

centre, and the man in charge of the project is someone football

fans in our region will know very well. Find out who it is after the

rest of the news where you live. Bunnies are investigating the death

of a pensioner who was taken to hospital after an incident at a

care home in Harlow. Three residents from the Partridge Care

Centre were admitted to the Princess Alexandra Hospital last

week. Gareth George is in Essex. The Partridge Care Centre opened in

May 2009, and it has room for 117 elderly residents including those

with dementia. Last Wednesday, three of the residents were

admitted to the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, one of them, an

elderly woman, died three days later. Tests are being carried out

to find out why. Into other residents are stable. The Kent and

Essex serious crime Directorate is looking into the circumstances that

led up to the three residents being admitted. We know very little at

the moment apart from a 36-year-old woman from Enfield has been

arrested, but she has been released on police bail while inquiries

continue. Gareth, the police issued a

statement today. What did they say? They told us that detectives are

looking into the care and treatment of residents at the home, as well

as a number of historic complaints. They say investigators have spoken

to family members, and other residents at the care home. The

Partridge Care Centre is owned by a gay group based in Loughborough.

The BBC -- a care group. The BBC tried to contact them today. They

refused to speak to them, but they said on their website, they provide

a safe environment for their residents. The woman arrested has

been released on bail until October. Passenger numbers at Stansted

Airport have fallen by 25% in four years, and figures today show no

sign the slump is nearing its end. Since the start of the recession, 6

million fewer passengers are using the airport.

Stansted is a busy place at this time of the year. But a strange

thing has happened over the past four years. One in four of

Stansted's passengers has disappeared. In 2007, 24 million

people used to the airport. But this year, it is 18 million.

Figures out today show that decline continuing, with passenger numbers

down 7% in July compared with the same month last year. What is going

on? Well, lots of people use Stansted to go to and from Ireland.

The economic troubles of the there have hit traffic hard. Budget

flights to Spain and elsewhere have also fallen.

Stansted is entrenched in low-cost carriers. For example, Ryanair has

67% of the market share in Stansted, followed by EasyJet at 22%. So

between them they have 90% of the market share. There is 18 airlines

in total serving Stansted, with two airlines running 90% of the traffic.

When you put all of your eggs in one basket, it is a dangerous

ingredient for an airport. There are problems with other

carriers - get their name has moved some services to Gatwick, and so

has a share. But Stansted says it is hopeful of seeing an improvement

80 new jobs have been created at a security firm in Norwich.

Eventguard, which gave a number of students work experience, says the

extra work is due to a busy summer providing security at concerts and

parried. A charity which operates the air

ambulance has taken delivery of a new helicopter. It will fly doctors

and equipment to medical emergencies throughout the region.

It is significantly larger than other helicopters.

It will enable us to help more people. Taking medical staff to be

patient at the side of the road, or carrying patients to hospital. It

has the same equipment as are carried on our current aircraft.

Alastair Cook is back in the groove with a century for England against

India after a couple of disappointing scores in the series

so far. He has battled his way past his century at Edgbaston, currently

at 179 not out. An agency has started at Flatford,

run by the RSPB, packed with clever ideas and colour for the green-

fingered. With many of our most precious

species in decline, it as an -- a sad but inescapable fact that

Mother Nature sometimes needs a helping hand.

It is an easy message to tell people to plant flowers.

It manages more than 200 reserves across the country but has never

attempted anything like this. A special site dedicated to showing

gardeners how to make birds, bees and butterflies feel very much at

home. It is somewhere people can come to see what we are planting

and what Habitat we have in the garden. Things that they can go and

do at home. It is not difficult stuff.

It has taken months to create but does it stimulate ideas?

It does. But I need a garden or to do it for me, if you have some

spare time? The land at the iconic part of

Constable country was left by two donor's. They used to run a tea

room here. It is a fantastic tribute. I am

thrilled to bits. Now it is maturing, it is fantastic. I am

really pleased. The message from the RSPB is simple.

However small, everyone can do DNA has been described as the

building blocks of life. It determines who we are, the colour

of our eyes, our height, and now, it seems, whether or not we are

prone to disease. At the Sanger Institute in Cambridgeshire, around

30,000 people have been tested. Scientists now believe that

diseases like cancer and diabetes could be linked to minute

variations in DNA. It looks like a place at the

forefront of science. It resembles a fridge. This is the sound of DNA

being sliced up. It is called sequencing. What used to take

months or years now takes moments. These grey lines are the sequences

created by the machines, around 50,000 per second. It is comparing

each of these with a reference genome and looking for variations

that could indicate disease. Minute differences in the pattern

shared by different people could hold the clue, scientists say, two

causes for cancer, heart disease and diabetes.

These are diseases which are frequent in the population,

typically 30 to 40%. But it is hard to understand them because they are

caused by many different genetic variations.

This research has made the Sanger Institute a world leader. To

process their data, they need this. Row after row of storage, the

equivalent of 50,000 home computers. They need to make it four times

bigger. Plans are to increase our storage

capacity. That will put us in the top 10% of storage site in the

world. Within a few years, what is learnt

here could become common practice. The hope is that better treatments

can be developed as well. David Sheepshanks, former chairman

of Ipswich Town, is leading a project that he says will unite

English football. In national football centre,

designed to benefit everyone from players to coaches and managers.

After 13 years in the pipeline, it will finally open in Staffordshire.

He be developed airport in Essex, but the size and scale and

importance of this challenge is in a different league.

This is the new elite outdoor pets. This is being created to replicate

Wembley in every way. When the diggers go, this park will

become a training hard for English football, vital to restore the

fortunes of the national game. The Premier League and the Football

League are behind this. So are the League managers' Association,

having their head office here. The Professional Footballers'

Association, having their satellite office here.

Relegation at its which ultimately will lead to administration. -- at

Ipswich. When I took this job, the words

white elephant reverberated around my head. This has to be built on

time and on budget. Belgium and Hungary currently have

more qualified coaches than England. By 2015, the FA hope to reduce the

ratio of coaches to players. It is long overdue. We have just

seen the Spanish lads winning the under '20s champions, and they did

best 20 years ago so you see here how far we have to go.

There is an argument whether that is better to have one centre or if

it would be better to use and develop the training ground, some

of them are fantastic, at our clubs around the country and have four or

five of those as more regional centres.

The park will look something like this when it is completed. David

Sheepshanks will not be finished them as the national football

centre is put to the test. Staying with sport and it is time

for the Olympic report. Stories involving our region in the run-up

to London 2012. Our guest presenter is a person who just missed out on

a medal four years ago, javelin I am golden Sayers. We are here

that the Lea Valley white water course in Hertfordshire. They are

filling the course ready for today's activities. The Olympic

canoe slope -- canoe slalom will take place here next year. The

announcement of the Great Britain team for next year is the big news.

I have been selected along with six other athletes from this region.

I will wear the best nine I have earned the right, and it is an

honour. The latest news on countries that

are using our region as a training base during the Games.

There is a 50 strong team from Azerbaijan. A delegate will be here

to check out their facilities. Lucy Bolton from Southend is hoping

to take part in the beach volleyball.

Great Yarmouth is hoping that one of the beach volleyball teams can

base themselves there. They have sent invitation back to countries

that would qualify. With just more than one year tell

the panel -- Paralympic Games, the D B basketball team is taking shape.

-- GB. We will have more next week but you

can follow the Olympic dreams of local athletes from where you left

on your BBC local radio stations. Goodbye.

She was good. Organisers are expecting a 200,000 people at the

Lowestoft their festival today. The show brings a lot of money to the

local economy but today, spectators were disappointed with the weather

which meant that some aircraft failed to fly.

Everything about the lost off to care so his bike. The crowds, some

200,000 per day. This year, the organisers are praying for fine

weather after last year's disaster. We had rain, rain and more rain.

And we lost money. For the first time we lost �39,000 on the event

last year. That is why this year is very important.

The parachute display team opened the show. They landed on a special

area of the beach, clear of people and picnics. These stunt planes are

always good to watch. They are the largest civilian air acrobatics

team in the UK. Then the rain comes down and the

umbrella as go up. We should expect it. But it has

spoiled the party a bit. The bad weather means that some

displays are forced to cancel but the airshow is essentially a social

event, and the us -- the socialising does not stop. I bumped

into the Lowestoft winemaking circle who forced me to try a

couple of varieties. It would be rude not to.

We liked the planes as well. But we do like to bring our wine.

But you're not too bothered about the planes? It is more the wind. --

the wind. Organisers kept the Bast till last.

The Red Arrows. -- the best till last. They will open the show

tomorrow and, like today, will most certainly steal the show as well.

Let us hope for better weather The good news is that it should

stay dry there. There is a changeable weather just now, as we

are between two areas of low pressure. We were have had some

sunny spells today. This evening, any showers should clear. Tonight

will be largely dry. Temperatures at their lowest down to 14 Celsius.

Light, variable winds inland and moderate in strength at the coast.

Tomorrow will be a cloudy day with brighter spells. A good covering of

cloud to start. There could be spot of rain but it looks mostly dry. In

the brightness, temperatures could rise to so -- to 23 degrees Celsius.

Through the afternoon, it looks mainly dry. By the end of the

afternoon, one or two spot of rain on the charge. This low-pressure is

pushing a cold front towards us. Into Saturday and Sunday, it means

we are looking at a potentially sour the weekend. There is

uncertainty. -- showery weekend. Sunday there is more uncertainty,

and the chance of a shower. It does look more dry for the beginning of