20/10/2011 Look East - East

Welcome to Look East. In the programme tonight, travellers and

protesters walked out of Dale Farm in a show of solidarity. I cannot

go through another day. A party Gore tells of her lucky escape

after she was crushed in the same stampede which killed a woman at a

nightclub. Someone grabbed me and I do not know how I got out.

change in the mileage allowance hit in the volunteers who drive

patients to hospital. And we are bringing in the Dutch to run our

First tonight, the ten-year dispute with travellers parked illegally at

Dale Farm appears to be nearing its end. Just before 5pm, the remaining

travellers came to the main entrance and walked out. As you may

have seen, the barricades at Dale Farm were torn down by heavy

machinery earlier today, opening the way for the bailiffs. The

travellers told Look East they had had enough and wanted to leave with

their heads held high. A huge scaffold tower that used to

mark the entrance to Dale Farm, that is where it used to stand but

it has gone. It is a sign that the resistance is over. Yesterday, they

had to drag activists out of Dale Farm. Today, activists and

travellers what doubt, chanting that they wanted to save Dale Farm.

It is far too late for that. They are beaten but they say they are

not on boat. -- unbowed. The activists were ready to fight but

the travellers were not. I cannot go through with another day. This

is a chance for the travellers and activist to leave with their heads

held high. We are more than happy for the support it, they are our

friends. Hours earlier, the mood was different. The police held the

line. The writing is on the wall for those who left here. I want to

see what happens if they see this. There was a half-hearted attempt to

build a new structure. This was the last chance. They came in with

brute force. Where is the media. -- Where is the media reports?

police were here to keep the peace and a rocket. It is nothing to do

with the eviction. They beat up people who did nothing to them.

Government has got �60 million funding to identify new site,

Basildon Council has spent �18 million to get us out.

residents are worn down. With Candy Sheridan's support, they agreed it

was time to give up. It has been agreed that the protesters will now

leave the site. The travellers said they do not want any more injuries.

This would be the final walk out. It is a chance to save face. Nobody

is biting. Calm down. -- fighting. Are you prepared to walk out? Yes.

We have not given up and we are walking out with dignity. Tonight,

roared with emotion, travellers said farewell to protesters for the

last time. -- wrought. Within the last are we have seen caravans

driving out of Dale Farm. Some have pulled on to illegal pitches beyond

me and others have gone further afield. -- legal pitches. Now the

police operation, we will begin with what happened to the gate. It

stood for years but it only took half-an-hour to tear it down. Short

work was made of the scaffold gate that marked the entrance to Dale

Farm. Once this has been removed and it is safe, we will allow the

travellers who have wanted to leave since yesterday to be able to leave

the river front gate. Then the contractors will continue their

work. -- through the front gate. This morning there was more arrests.

These protesters spent 26 hours locked to a fence. Had a constant

stream of residents coming through, being very thankful we are here.

That is why we have got blankets. We have been fed and given drinks.

They were cut off -- they were cut free and its troops. -- amidst

shouts. 30 people have been arrested today. One protester --

one traveller thanked the activists. I thank them so much and we love

them to death. Within the last 30 minutes this operation has gone up

a gear. Riot police have been called in. It was to allow the

council and B-list to inspect the illegal pitches to see what needs

to be shifted. -- council and bailiffs. Although the gates have

gone, there is still a lot of work to do here. Clearing Dale Farm is

expected to take weeks. Security is still very tight down here were the

gate used to be. You can see security guard up the road. Earlier

they stretched even further up to Dale Farm. Tomorrow, a more

detailed survey of the pictures will take place. -- pitches. The

council says anyone who wants to leave but is struggling to will be

given a hand. The key moment was the walkout. Although the clearance

will take months, it seems the battle is over.

The nightclub in Northampton were arrested and was crushed to death

has been shut down. The local council has suspended the licence.

Today another young woman who was caught in the crushing told us it

could have been her. One in a million, beautiful person. The

tributes to Nabila Nanfuka keep on coming. She was so friendly. She

was the type of person who would be really nice to you even if she did

not know you. She was never shy. was in the early hours of yesterday

morning that the 22-year-old university student died of

suspected crushing industries -- crashing in Derry's -- crushing

injuries. Somebody grabbed me and I do not know I got out. This morning,

councillors suspended the club's licence. Police told the hearing

there was a large crowd, bike broke out, and officers received a call

saying nine people were stuck in a lift. -- fighting broke out. How

this relates to her death is now being investigated. I urge people

to come forward. We have had a limited response. We need the help

of the public. If the public were present we need them to speak to us.

Two women are still in a critical condition. The nightclubs says it

is deeply happened -- deeply saddened. I hearing will be held by

the council within 28 days. Tonight there are so many questions as to

Later on, we have heard of high- tech, but what is clean-tech? And

the region's railways are going Volunteer drivers to take patients

to hospitals across the region are warned they may be forced to give

up. Changes to the mileage allowance will leave them greatly

out of pocket. This man was a long distance lorry driver until health

problems. Now he ferries patients to hospital appointments. It is a

job he loves. I love it. There is a great camaraderie between us and

the patience. When you take somebody home from a long trip and

drop them off at home and they say thank you, it was a really nice

journey. That is brilliant. volunteer drivers get just over 42p

a mile allowance. They saved from next month, when a new scale of

payments is introduced, journeys to and from home will not count and it

will cost them. I would love to carry on but if they drop the rate

as they are talking about I will not be able to afford to. I will

have to pay out of my own pocket. I cannot afford to do that. Nobody is

listening to the drivers. We want them to listen to us. A new scheme

has been recommended by the auditors. It encourages more local

journeys and fewer carloads. The aim is a fairer system for the

highly valued volunteer drivers. They do a good job and you can have

a laugh with them. The drivers feared their ranks could be

depleted and the patients will suffer. Two people have been found

guilty of murdering a vulnerable man in Ipswich. Martin Edwards was

found with multiple injuries and police said that people had bullied

and beaten him and let him for dead while the celebrated Christmas. And

at the Bailey and Hugh Heggarty will be sentenced later. Two other

people were found not guilty. -- 10 of the Bailey. A woman has been

found in a river in Ipswich. The police are trying to establish how

she fell in. -- Timothy Bailey. Suffer County Council has announced

the name of their new chief executive. Deborah Cadman will take

over from the controversial Andrea Hill. She quit her job with a

�200,000 pay-off after months of criticism. Andrea Hill managed to

ruffle a lot of feathers. The council freely admit it has been a

difficult time, making headlines for the wrong reasons. This is

intended to open and you write a chapter for Suffolk. -- a new

brighter chapter. It has been controversial. I am more interested

in the future. We have someone here who has great ability and I am

optimistic. That person is Deborah Cadman and she is a big hitter. The

cabinet are convinced they have the right person. She is paid �63,000

less than her predecessor, so represents good value to a council

aiming to save �50 million. Jaywick in Essex is getting extra

CCTV cameras. It is one of the most deprived areas in the country with

high levels of crime and disorder. A group of local people is paying

for the cameras to be put up. Delia Smith has been named as a patron of

the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation. It was set up by Sir Bobby Robson

before his death in 2009. She will take on the role at a fund-raising

dinner in Bury St Edmunds tonight. She was invited to get involved by

Lady Elsie, Sir Bobby Robson's widow. A new centre has been set up

by the Countess of Wessex. There was three official openings in

Ipswich. This is the state-of-the- art complex for people with mental

health problems. It is indescribable how we feel about it.

Fantastic. Fantastic for the patients and the staff. We are so

excited. It replaces the old hospital. This provides that

funding for this unit. It has 73 Patient X. There is greater privacy

and special designed to reduce the risk of self-harm. -- design. The

centre at the dementia assessment unit. Sue Benson, who helped shape

what happened here, says this complex is marvellous. It is

reassuring. When you have hit a brick wall, it is very reassuring

to come here. I would like to say, on behalf of all the vulnerable

people you care for, an enormous thank you. The Countess feared

mental health was often the poor relation of medical care, sometimes

let the side. Here, she said, it was given the profile it deserved.

That swept to the side. -- swept. Coming up: a very different kind of

school run. One of the biggest rail franchises in the region will soon

be run by the Dutch. The greater Anglian franchise covers more than

half the region. A new company will take over in February. For the

first time in this region a foreign company will be taking over after

beating competition from two British firms. Abellio could

potentially run the rail services for the next 17 years. Complaints

about National Express had been legion. They were criticised for

poor reliability, crowding, and speech problems. Whether justified

or not, there will soon be an new player in the North Sea. -- a new

player in Anglia. The news that this Dutch company would be taking

Aubert will excite people that services will improve. What were

passengers saying? I do not agree with that, I am British and I like

to see things in British hands. Dutch run services quite well, I

have an open mind. The service is relatively good but not reliable.

Hopefully they will be cheaper and less rude. The franchise includes

routes are out of London to Norfolk and Cambridgeshire. It does not

include the commuter line in Essex which stays with National Express.

Abellio have a very impressive track record. They will bring that

record to the new franchise. We have imposed tougher requirements

for reliability. We require them to improve passenger satisfaction.

Abellio has won the franchise until 2014. But the main prize will be

the 15 year franchise which will be awarded in 2014. Abellio will hold

by doing a good job for a couple of years it will be in pole position.

Abellio's parent company is the main train operator in the

Netherlands. In the UK it already runs services in Liverpool and

Manchester. In this region, pressure for improvements has been

unrelenting. In Norwich there is a campaign for a 90 minute service to

Liverpool Street station. It is really important that as well as

being faster they look after local services. Norwich to Cambridge is

an important route. A good performance running services to

Stratford could help them strike We hear a lot about the struggles

of business recently, but there are some success stories. The hi-tech

injuries -- industries around Cambridge. Now there is a new kid

on the block, called clean-tech. It is a cluster of hundreds of eco-

friendly companies working together to make a name for themselves.

Solar, wind, water, waste. All opportunities for new companies.

Let me introduce you to the summerhouse, where we have panels

on the roof. These are rich in material. They generate a quarter

of this house's electricity requirements. They are not just for

roofs. They can Clyde entire buildings, power bus-stops and more.

-- clad. He says very soon that the windows in our homes will generate

electricity. There are no systems for installing a new product.

Getting it into a market requires the entire market to be familiar

with it. This is where the chairman of clean-tech companies comes into

business. There are reports of other places claim to be world

leaders but they do not have the advantages of Cambridge, with the

university and a track record. We have all the credentials. It is not

just Cambridge. His clean-tech company is in Luton. The recycle

aluminium and oil. -- they. There is a lot of support from

universities. We will develop new technology that can glide into the

world and solve environmental problems. We have seen high-tech

and biotech. Now there is a third, clean-tech.

Next year's Olympic Games are being used as a way of pulling together

schools around the world inspired by sport. Bedford academy has been

twinned with two remote schools in Kenya. Pupils have been going over

there to find out why they produce For some, it takes two hours. These

tracks have been trodden by hundreds of feet. It is a tough

medals. It has produced the best distance runners in the world,

including two of Kenya's star athletes. This woman and her

brother went to school here. For Bedford academy students, the nine-

hour flight was a breeze. The two hour journey to the village school

was not as smooth. Because of the road, they do not have too many

visitors here, so when they arrived, the welcome was warm.

Overwhelmed. Amazing. What a welcome. They threw themselves into

school life in a place were running is a way of life. Like Bedford

Academy, this is a sport to school. The pupils here dream of Olympic

medals as a ticket to a brighter future. We take everything for

granted. I think we take transport for granted, what we have got. I

drive to school, and I live round the corner. It has changed lives.

Their twin because of the BBC's Olympics world-class programme. If

you would like to find a twin school, go to the website. And you

can see the full report on Emma and Ermal's trip to Kenya on the BBC

News Channel tomorrow and Sunday at Now the weather.

It got pretty Cup last night. A number of locations got below

freezing. It will not get quite as Cup tonight. There will be a subtle

change in our weather. We have high pressure to the south. That is

setting up a south-westerly wind. It will drag in some slightly mild

mid-Atlantic air. Across the region, fairly clear skies across most of

the region. What that means is it will be a chilly start, and it will

to lift the temperatures. A mixture of clear spells and patchy cloud to

start the night. Temperatures are likely to dip down to around three

Celsius around midnight. Possibly a touch of ground frost. During the

second half of the night, the clock from the West. A cloudy start to

develop. It will start to feel mild or through the day tomorrow.

Temperatures are climbing to about 14 Celsius tomorrow. We will start

with there light south-westerly, which will increase. Through the

afternoon, it stays dry and fairly cloudy, but still some brighter

spells. For the weekend, this is how it looks on the pressure chat.

We have got weather fronts to the left. It will bring wet-weather

We stayed dry in the south, with a brisk, southerly wind, then in two

Sunday, this area of pressure close by. We should stay dry. This is

what the next five days looks like. The daytime temperatures will

gradually increase. It stays dry into the weekend. Pretty breezy.

Later on Monday we are expecting rainfall. That could mean a fairly

cloudy day. We're looking at much milder temperatures coming in. The

average for data on his 14 Celsius. We're pretty much back on average.

It get milder, into double figures, on Monday or Tuesday. It is

barometer night for tonight. Fairly Thank-you very much. I was standing