23/11/2011 Look East - East

A government U-turn. There are growing signs tonight that the

Chancellor could be about to spring a surprise for drivers in the

region. His it is a win-win situation. The hauliers and so on

say they are willing to pay the toll in order to no longer have to

have 30 minutes extra in their timetables because it is going to

be blocked. Also tonight, please don't let this happen again. The

plea after the distressing death of a care home resident in

Cambridgeshire. In Essex, 30 years in jail for a man who stabbed a

family friend 50 times. And, after a day of crisis in English rugby,

then Foden tells us what he thinks. Look East understands that George

Osborne is considering a plan to expand the A14. It would cost �1

billion and would bring relief to thousands of drivers. It would also

provide a major economic boost. Yes, here it is, all 125 miles of

it. From Felixstowe in the East through to well past Northampton in

the west - joining the M1. A plan to expand the carriageways on this

section here to six lanes was scrapped last year because of the

huge cost. But Mr Osborne is now believed to be re-considering the

scheme, probably with the help of the private sector. And it will be

announced when he delivers his Autumn statement next week. Let's

go to Downing Street now and our political correspondent Andrew

Sinclair: Today a petition appeared calling for urgent investment in

the a 14. It is recognised as one of the country's most unacceptably

congested roads. My instance calls -- caused huge delays on an almost

daily basis. The man behind me is set to announce speak Investment on

infrastructure projects which can kick-start the economy. I

understand the a 14 is likely to be on the list. Surprise and

disappointment last year when the government refused to fund the

enlargement of the a 14. Since then there has been a lot of behind the

scenes lobbying. I think they have finally woken up to the fact they

need to invest in significant infrastructure projects to get the

economy going again. It is a key road which is going to hit our

ability to grow economically and as we do something about the

congestion problems which a cause nearly every day of every week.

understand the state of the road was recently raised at Downing

Street. Others have been lobbying hard. The main arguments put

forward are that the cost of the �1.4 billion scheme can come down

significantly, and if the government does not have the money

the private sector can help out. could be a tolling option or a

leasing option, like in Peterborough. That piece of road is

not owned by the state. Many different options. Building a new

carriageway and making it a toll road is the favoured option. MPs

believe enough private investors would stump up the money. The the

hauliers say they are perfectly willing to pay a toll in order to

no longer have to have 30 minutes into their timetables because they

expect to have the road block regularly. I think it is a win-win

situation. If this project gets the go-ahead it will create jobs and

there will be speedier journeys. But don't hold your breath, even

with their wins, it is likely to be seven or eight years but com --

before it becomes reality. likely is it that we will have his

investment? Extremely likely I understand. At the moment it is in

the speech. It could drop out, but there is a growing feeling at

Westminster and Cambridgeshire that the time has come for the a 14. It

will not be straightforward, some people will object to having to

play calls on roads. But there is a feeling here that it is beginning

to move forward. And we'll have more on those A14 plans and a look

ahead to George Osborne's Autumn Statement on the Politics Show this

Sunday. That's with me, BBC 1 at midday.

The family of a woman who died after spending weeks in discomfort

and pain in a care home said tonight they hope no other family

will have to go through a similar ordeal. 74 year old Ana Dunmore

became a patient at a care home at Littleport in Cambridgeshire in

2008. A year later the extent of her bed sores became apparent and

she died in the summer of 2009. Mike Cartwright was at the inquest

today. For the family there is relief that

it is over. The inquest into what they saw as a clear case of neglect.

This was sued suffering for her, from life-threatening bed sores.

They were preventable and should have been prevented. What the

inquest has shown a as from all this suffering was that it was a

necessary. She had dementia and Parkinson's disease. The care home

was supposed to care for her. They did not. From alt Park it is with

deep regret that mistakes were made and immediate lessons were learnt.

We have a good reputation for care amongst of residents, their family

members and loved ones. We will continue to work with all the

appropriate authorities to make sure care of the very high standard

is provided. She moves into the home in March 2008, and just over a

year later the bed sores were discovered. Record showed that on

15th June she was not turned into of ours. On the 16th the same. For

nine days she was not turned it all. It was said that a nurse she did

not recognise said turning was no longer necessary. He preferred

instead the evidence of the drastic nurses, said the judge. Her family

said she loved life, and ammonia was recorded of taking it. The 74

year old who ended her days with a bedsore. One nurse described it as

the worst she had ever seen. Begonia Hammond is the daughter of

Ana Dunmore. She's at her home in Downham Market now. Would you like

somebody to be held responsible? would like this negligence to never

have happened. What sort of woman was your mother? She was fun, a

wonderful wife, a fantastic grandmother. She moved into the

care home in 2008, what she originally happy or was she unhappy

from the moment she moved in? had periods of being quite content

when she first moved in, but as the months passed by she complained of

being very unhappy them. She felt very alone. She had dementia, which

meant that perhaps you might not have listened as much as you might

have done had she not had dementia. It is true, we did not listen. She

would complain of sitting there all day. I know that you and your

mother were particularly close, weren't you? You did many things

together. Tell me about that. mother moved here to be near Mike

children. She was an amazing woman. She could cook, she did so much for

the family. She was fun. -- my children. When it became apparent

to you how things were, I know that one day when you went into the room

just before she moved out you could smell something. Are you surprised

that nobody else could smell it? That was the beds will. He that was

the birds will. It was horrific. -- that was the beds all. I asked what

the smell was. When I asked, I was told it is nothing to worry about.

The reaction of the people when you got to the next care home, how did

they react when you got there and they saw the bed sore? The nurse

was very tearful, she cried. She said she had never seen anything

like it in all her years of nursing. You were so close to your mother as

we have already herds. All of this will have tainted the memory.

definitely. I know it is very difficult to talk about it, thank

you so much for coming on the programme. A pleasure, thank you.

So, things can, and do, go wrong in residential homes for the elderly.

But many are getting it right, including routine checks for bed

sores. We've been to a model care home in Cambridge where staff have

won awards for their work. Meet Nicola, she has just won a national

award for being an outstanding care worker. Rather than give her care

patients' drugs, she prefers Alternate treatments. For the

entire care home team here, keeping an eye on bedsores is a priority.

can give you a hand massage if you want.

If somebody is lying down all the time, we will go in there and make

sure they are at least moved, we check if there are areas which are

read. We will see if they are vulnerable. Some can be frail. We

do risk assessment by every member of staff. They assess every day,

people more prone to sores. Their expertise has won the numerous

awards, and they are encouraged to move around and remember the past.

We got new fish today. Have you seen the rabbits? For on the club

and the team here it is about taking the time to really care.

Still to come tonight, Jim Bacon with news of colder weather on the

way. Plus, with English rugby in turmoil, Saints star Ben Foden on

A man who murdered a family friend in a savage attack in Essex has

been jailed for life. Tina Bennett was stabbed more than 50 times when

she answered the door at her home in Braintree on Easter Monday.

Howard Livings was told he would serve a minimum of 30 years.

Howard Livings, a family friend who turned Keller. It was last Easter,

late at night, that he knocked on Tina Bennett's door in Braintree.

He had been drinking. Armed with cable ties and a kitchen knife, he

planned to rape her. When she resisted he punched her in the face

and head, stabbing her more than 50 tonnes. Later, he went to

Broomfield hospital with cuts to his hands. He claimed he had been

robbed. It was Tina's sister who found her body. I was devastated by

her brittle, senseless, callous murder, by a killer who showed her

no mercy. We will never get over our grief, and there will always be

a big void in our family without her. Tina Bennett died at the hands

of a cold-blooded killer. She died in horrific circumstances. It is

one of the most savage, most brutal incidents that I have been involved

in. In sentencing Howard Livings to live in prison, the judge said,

"you went up to the House in pent- up sexual fury. You have launched a

ferocious attack with a knife and killed her in angry -- and the". He

was told he will serve a minimum of 30 years in prison.

Seven men have been re-bailed after claims three teenage girls were

raped in Ipswich. Police were called to a block of flats in

Franciscan Way in the early hours of Friday 26th August. A 17 and 19-

year-old, and five men in their 20s are due to report back to the

police in the new year. An outdoor swimming pool in Suffolk

is a step closer to reopening after �1 million pledge from the local

authority. Broomhill Lido in Ipswich has been closed since 2002.

A number of students are still refusing to leave a building at

Cambridge University, following a demonstration last night following

a speech by the Universities Minister, David Willetts. About 25

protesters disrupted the meeting and it was eventually abandoned.

The mood has been positive. People have been coming and going, seeing

what has been happening here. We are making banners, just trying to

engage students as they come into their lectures and let them know

why we are here, and what we want to achieve.

On average every week, six young people are killed or seriously

injured on the roads in this region. More young people are killed on the

roads than in any other way. To mark road safety week, young people

themselves have been delivering the safety message.

They call it bad trip. Students from Norwich City College, a plate

there will soon be taking into schools. It's a serious message

about staying alive on our roads. work as a barmaid in my club, and

some friends have tried to make my night a bit more exciting by

spiking my drink. A survey published today shows that more

than half have feared for their lives as a passenger with a young

driver at the wheel. More than 60% say they have been endangered by

young drivers speeding and driving under the influence of drink or

drugs. You can have fun, you can go out and party, but just don't drive

once you've done it because, especially with our age group, so

many people crash. This car simulates what happens when you are

trapped in a crashed car. It is a violent, distressing incident to

see young lives ended on the side of the road with such alarming

regularity. There is almost an inevitability now that young

drivers are going to go on unstuck. Gritted's son Adam was killed by a

motorcycle driver. They are all pressures, they are all unique and

irreplaceable. We don't want any of them to be killed, and we don't

want them to kill anyone else. Norfolk Fire and Rescue Service

says the number of deaths and serious injuries on its roads is

the lowest ever, but too many 17 - 24-year-olds are still losing their

lives. Just a reminder that if you are

watching us Throop review you may need to retune your digital box.

All analogue boxes -- stations in the region have been switched off.

There has also been work on our transmitter at Sandy Heath in the

west of the region. Norwich City are proving they can

compete with the big boys of the Premier League, both on and off the

pitch. Good evening. From tears at the

Valley and relegation to League One, to reaching the promised land of

the Premier League. The last two years has seen a real turnaround

for Norwich City. Last night at the club's AGM, the chief executive

David Manama a -- David McNally said revenue was expected to

increase by �41 million this year, with profits of �18 million after

tax. How big an achievement is this?

To go and get back-to-back promotions and look quite

comfortable in the Premier League without spending a huge amount of

money under a backdrop of financial discipline that the Cup is going

through at the moment is a wonderful achievement -- club.

to Ipswich Town, and the 25-year- old is due to join the club on a

month's loan. Earlier this season, the manager told the Hungarian

international he could leave the side.

The former Ipswich Town captain has become the new patron of the club's

Charitable Trust. Holland, who played in the championship in the

year 2000 will promote the charity. In the last year, the group has

helped over 60,000 people of all ages and abilities in the community.

On to the FA Cup, and congratulations to Southend who

have stretched their unbeaten run to 15 games. Last night, they

knocked out League One Preston from the competition.

Leigham Dickinson broke the deadlock just before the hour mark.

That is all your sport for now. You can find out more about your team

on the BBC Sport website and your Ben Foden, the Northampton rugby

player is one of England's bright new SARS, but today the headlines

make grim reading for followers of the national game. The fall-out of

the performance after the Rugby World Cup spilled into the public

gaze today with reports that some players were more interested in

making money than playing rugby. In an interview with Look East, Ben

Foden told us the players need to be more responsible.

England's shambolic World Cup debrief continues. Today's leaked

documents about where it went wrong were supposed to be private, but

they revealed a damning reality - a spot to argue about money,

criticised coaches and each other. One of the well-known players on

that tour spoke to Look East Today, Northampton's Ben Foden, who

admitted the image of his team- mates and himself had taken a hard

knock. People will want to point fingers, but at the end of the day,

there were 50 of us on that tour. We are all involved and part of the

same unit. It all by into the same ideas and the same philosophy. It

is all very well to point at the guy next year and blame him, but at

the end of the day, we all have to take responsibility as a unit.

it easy to think about rugby when your name is in the headlines for

the wrong reasons? I think it is because that is the way you have

got to approach it. You do your talking on the field. Headlines are

written about your performance on the field. If we went on and won

the World Cup, no one would be complaining about all the things

that happened. It was ironic that on the day the professional game

appeared in turmoil, one of the bastions of the amateur game was

taking place in Cambridge. The University game at which attracts a

big crowd. They usually attract top brass, but not today, not when the

game is in crisis. English rugby is a mess, it needs to be sorted out.

Professionalism has taken over, and I'm not quite sure whether they

know what the rules are. In terms of the spirit of the game, frankly.

There doesn't seem to be any leadership whatsoever, and that

goes down to the players themselves. The Rugby Football Union has lodged

an investigation into the Leech Report. Northampton's World Cup

SARS may be back, but the mess left behind in New Zealand is coming

home to roost. Now to the story of two Bens. They

both come from Essex and they are both young men trying to find a job.

Today they went to a jobs fair in Colchester with one million young

people out of work across the country, finding a new job is not

easy. This is 18-year-old Ben Kimber in

his bedroom, playing games on his computer. Since he flunked his A-

levels, he has spent most of his waking hours here. Like many

teenagers, he does not really know what he wants from life. I think

that is why I am where I am now. I just don't know, it is a big old

world, lost to do. You are always told to do education and get a good

job, but I don't even know what a good job is. I don't know what's

going to make me happy. Today, his mother tracked him to this job fair

in Colchester. It was organised by the borough council and a job

centre plus. His mother has done what she can to help them, but

teenagers don't always want help. He sees me as the grumpy, nagging

person. He doesn't see it as the advice that he wants. Other people

speak to him and you can see him listening, but when I talk to him,

he doesn't want to know. Also at the job there was 21-year-old Ben

Franklin. He left school at 16 with lower qualifications to work in the

building trade. Last year, the building work started to dry up,

and now he is thinking about getting some more training. At home

on Razzie Island, his girlfriend is working full-time. They have little

Jack and another baby on the way, so money is tight. Ben is desperate

to get back to work. You have to carry on picking yourself up over

and over again, and hope that at the end of the day someone is going

to give you that break. Back at the jobs fair, Ben Kimber finds out at

about the possibility of getting an apprenticeship as a teaching

assistant. It is a start, but also a big step. Will he be able to get

out of bed in the mornings? It is going to be hard, I suppose. That

is the first challenge - actually getting there. Yes, definitely.

you can do it. Well, I will give it a shot, I suppose. It can't hurt to

drive. Ben is having a more formal interview with the Training Agency

tomorrow. We are hoping to follow his progress, and that of Ben

Franklin over the coming months, to see if they can find a job and a

brighter future. I'm sure we will find out how they

We have had some very interesting Sky's recently. One of our viewers

in the west of the region this morning was up at sunrise to catch

this picture. Thank you, Beverley. This evening, just as the sun was

setting, toby Wood saw these colours in the sky. It is typical

of them, high cloud that we often get streaming ahead of a weather

front, such as has been closed to us today. No rain, but a lot of

cloud spreading up from the South West across the country. In our

region it has been thin, high cloud, or at least it was meant to be. It

did they come up enough to take the sunshine away completely at time,

but it did give us a full sun rises and sunset, and may do so again

tomorrow morning. For tonight, the cloud may just be thick enough to

help hold temperatures up, stopping the frost becoming as sharp as last

night. It reached minus 1 in places last night. Temperatures down to

five or six in the west of the region, and just touching four

Celsius in the east. Maybe a hint of frost on the grass, but it will

be a brief, fleeting affair. For the rest of the day tomorrow, after

that nice sun rise, then, high cloud will make the sunshine hazy,

but overall a nice enough they. There will be further spells of

hazy sunshine and patchy cloud, but, with a bit more breeze, mild air

will waft across the week -- region. Two or three degrees above the

average. B breeze made make it feel a bit on the cool side at first.

For the rest of the afternoon, clouds thickening up, especially in

the west of the region, because that weather front is going to be

getting a bit closer. Just behind me over my shoulder, you will see

some rain. That would reach us until the end of Thursday night,

into Friday morning. It won't amount to much. Dry, windy weather

for a time, and another cold front coming through on Saturday night.

Behind that, cold air and north- westerly winds. It will feel chilly,

but will be mostly dry. This is high pressure to the south, which

means that the weather fronts in the soft part of the country will

be weak, so not much rain in these systems. The whole week could be

described as mainly dry. Some patchy rain first thing on Friday,