15/03/2012 Look East - East

In Look East tonight, in million pounds fine for Network Rail six

years after two girls were killed at a nil -- level crossing.

Also tonight, a school coach in flames by the side of the road just

minutes after it children are led to safety. Tonight, praise for the

driver. He did very well to get all 28

children out and the four adopts before the fire did develop.

Gearing up for Formula One, in you name this season - Caterham.

And celebrating the life of David Croft, the man behind so many of

First tonight, Network Rail is fined �1,000,000.60 years after two

girls were killed on a level crossing in Essex.

The parents of Olivia Bazlinton and Charlotte Thompson where at

Chelmsford Crown Court today, they described the sentence as

"symbolic" but added that more needed to be done. Tonight in

Robert -- ill-will union described the action of senior Network Rail

managers as "wicked beyond belief". As the judge put it today, no fine

could reflect the loss of two young lives or the prolonged pain

suffered ever since by their families. But he said that that

would where was guilty of what he called "and narrow thinking" and

"culpable corporate blindness." to Ooh mothers arrived at court

holding their daughters soft toys. The judge said impact statements

from the two families had been preferred -- profoundly moving.

The two friends died instantly after opening the wicket gate at

the Elsenham crossing. They did not see a Stansted train

hurtling towards them at 65 mph. The Essex coroner and an inquest

jury visited the crossing in 2007, a verdict of accidental death

returned, but the jury and previous inquiries were denied access to key

documents including a report from a level crossing standards manager.

This warned that the risk of disaster was real. In new

footbridge has been installed now, the pedestrian gates now lock when

it train approaches. But it has come too late for a Libya and

Charlotte. Finding that work -- finding a

Network Rail �1 million, Judge David Turner said that warnings

went unheeded. He said critical questions were UN asked an and

answered. He said the level of complacency entered the realms of

criminal failure. First, the family's' Reaction outside a few

years ago. I did not want it -- I do not want

to come here today, I wanted to go to parents' evening and sake -- and

here the teachers say that Bolivia talked too much in class. And see

how bring a bag of washing home from university. And look into the

eyes of her newborn babies. They took our daughters from us and

Brook our hearts. I do believe that because of what has been done, that

Charlotte and a Libya -- Libya, at least the railways will be safer.

We made a few mistakes, which directly led to the deaths of all

Libya and Charlotte. I don't think anything I say, company says, can

ever cope with the pain their families must feel. Actions are

just as important as words. Network Rail pointed out that its

approach to a level crossing safety has changed very radically since

this tragedy six years ago, and that 520 crossings had been closed

altogether across the country since 2009. It was investing �130 million

on improving level crossing safety. But the families really did not

feel the money, the opposed fine, was what it was all about, they

still feel there are questions tonight which are unanswered.

Within the last hour I have spoken to Chris Bazlinton, the father of

Olivia Bazlinton. I asked him for his reaction to the sentence given

to Network Rail. I am pleased it is a serious amount

of money, but it is very much symbolic because you and I, the

taxpayer, other people paying this fine because Network Rail is

heavily subsidised. As far as getting them to admit what they

have admitted, how much satisfaction does that give you and

the other family members? It is grim satisfaction, it has taken

more than six years to get to this point. Why did we have to wait that

long? They also have promised to make level crossings safer, they

say they have already done a lot of work. I used satisfied by that? --

are you satisfied? I think they are satisfied -- I think they are

serious. But I think they are working on the most dangerous

crossings. But I would say that Network Rail and his predecessor,

in their annual reports, have always promised that safety is the

biggest priority. That has not been the case. It has been a very long

drawn-out battle for you and the other family involved. Do you feel

now this has happened and the fine has been given, and it would will

have admitted what they have, but you can feel it has come to a close

in some respects and just grief personally? The judicial process

have finished, but there are people in Network Rail who must know why

their -- those documents took so long to appear. Why have we had to

wait six years for them to come to the surface? Bano somebody inside,

-- Bano, somebody inside nose, and we want some sort of inquiry to

look into what really went wrong. I am not giving up on that.

There has been praise today for a driver who their children to safety

from a school coach just minutes before it burst into flames. The

college was travelling from Peterborough to Whipsnade Zoo when

the driver noticed smoke coming from the engine. Firefighters told

us tonight that swift action from the Driver and teachers could well

have saved lives. The safety of school trips is

uppermost in People's minds, and today it has come close to home for

a people's at this school. Parents were told that their coach had just

broken down, but then they suddenly realise things worse for forming --

things were far more serious. The moment a school outing turned

into a major incident, a few miles from their destination the bus

burst into flames. This footage was taken by 11-year-old Joseph

recalled how smoke was coming up the aisle of the coach. It pulled

over, they were taken to safety, before they were pulled to safety.

I panicked. I was frightened, at first I thought they had just

broken down, and then you find out it was a fire, and you think how

lucky you are but your children are safe. We are all lucky that the

school acted the way they did, and that they are all safe. Fire crews

and police were quickly at the scene. They praised the bus

driver's fast actions. He did very well he did very well to get all

the children out before the fire developed. He acted very quickly by

pulling over to the side of the road.

Pupils returned to school this lunchtime.

The children were pleased to see their parents, they had had an

exciting adventure because they had been in a police van. But they were

quite calm, but relieved to see their parents. I did not hear about

flames until we came to pick the children up, and that really did

get my heart going. I thank the Lord that they are all safe. A how

is your child? I have spoken to him and he was upset that he missed his

trip. But now it is, this was a big thing that happened to us today for

stock the bus has been taken away by police.

An investigation into what caused the fire has begun.

We are hearing tonight that the bus had only been serviced yesterday,

so the bus company is going through that service to see if there are

any clues as to why it might have suddenly burst into flames.

Still to come to light, it is BBC School Report day. Our reporters

from Peterborough have been to the Olympic Stadium.

And remembering David Croft, the There's been a potential

breakthrough in the hunt for the killer of a teenager whose body was

found on the one estate at Sandringham. 17-year-old Alisa

Dmitrijeva was found near the village of Anmer two months ago.

Police have now recovered because she was last seen in at a scrapyard

in Whisby age. The discovery of human remains a

mile away from Sandringham is still a mystery, but police are on the

verge of a major breakthrough. The site where Alisa Dmitrijeva was

discovered has unique biological fingerprints, a rare composition of

fungal spores. 17-year-old Alisa from that the are lived in Wisbech.

It was here from which police recovered the car. Inside, traces

of salt. If the supporters in it match those where she was

discovered, it will be a major development. -- the spores for

stock if we find a match do something on someone's footwear or

in his vehicle. We may be able to put them at the

scene where at least a's body was found. Norfolk police have always

said that this would be a complex investigation which is relying on

complex evidence. Detectives are also interviewing a handful of key

witnesses, all eastern European and all known associates of Alisa

Dmitrijeva. Ten years ago the bodies of Holywell and Jessica

Chapman were found near Lakenheath. Detectives find that soil near the

site was also in the car of Ian Huntley, who murdered them.

It'll be another four weeks before police know if there is a match

between the wood and the green car. There's been a fire at the sugar

processing factory in Cantley near gripe Yarmouth. It is thought to

have started in a cooling tower. British Sugar say nobody was

injured. This year the drought and the

economy are up-to- of our biggest stories. Tonight we meet a man

finding a financial silver lining in the lack of rain clouds. Tony

Roberts earns his living drilling boreholes. Because of the drought,

business has never be in better. Tony is having it could drought. He

kills boreholes all over East Anglia for farmers, and keen

gardeners. He says he can find water in 95% of the region in

abundant qualities, and that the drought is making little difference.

We have done hundred us of boreholes of the the years, most of

them fluctuate throughout the year, and some are down to two metres.

there is not a water shortage? Exactly.

Tony is critical of the water companies and the amount of leaks

in their systems. We were contacted by Chris Wilson, who claims there

has been a leak in his village for two years. It is an everyday

occurrence. We cannot really estimate the amount of water about

has been wasted.'s Anglian Water say engineers are investigating an

will repair any leak as soon as they can.

At the RSPB reserve here, springs which normally feed the sight of

very dry. Although water has been stored over the winter, these are

worrying times. At the moment are macro priorities would be managing

the mid bed habitat and particularly birds such as the bid

terms. We would do whatever we can to maintain the water levels within

The average cost of having a borehole is around �6,000 but you

can extract of up to 20,000 litres per day without a licence. He is

expecting a busy summer. Do A Norwich teenager's hopes of

competing in the Paralympics have been boosted. Amy Ottaway plays

goalball, a team sport for blind athletes. The aim is to score by

rolling a rubber ball into a goal. Amy's in the national squad and

it's now been confirmed goalball WILL be included in the games. Amy

qualifies for the sport because she's partially sighted. She's

The ball contains a bell and the game is played in total silence. A

mother returned to hospital with her baby today to thank the doctors

who saved her life eight weeks ago. Clare Braybrook had to be rushed to

Papworth Hospital in Cambridgeshire after suffering chest pains. First

the team delivered her baby by caesarean section. Then they

carried out major heart surgery. Mike Cartwright reports. Thank you

very much for saving her life and looking after her. Seeing her in

his arms, what does that mean to you? It means a lot. It is so

special. I never thought we would have this moment. It is so precious.

She had operation -- she had a heart surgery operation here to

save her life. Only moments before her daughter had been born by

Caesarean section. It was challenging. We had to work with

fluctuations in her blood pressure, it could have been fatal for her

baby. She is a physical education teacher and did not know that she

had a heart problem. I did not know that the hospital could cater for

me and looked after me and saved my life. They it is probably the most

fatal heart condition you can have. The survival rate is about 1%. It

is probably the most really true emergencies we deal with. We have

to fix it as soon as possible. are now a family and they say they

The new Formula One season begins on Saturday - and there's a new

name on the grid - Caterham F1 from Norfolk. Caterham started life as

Team Lotus a couple of years ago but changed their name after a long

legal battle. This is likely to to be their last year based at their

factory in Hingham. Tom Williams reports. A new season, and you look.

And union, fresh faces on the get and in the pet. They are now all

revved up to make a real impact and this year shift up a gear. The

finished 10th in their first two seasons. This year their aim is to

get a amongst the points. We will keep pushing 110 % to get the car

did enough. He has got an new team- mate. The Russian has already

visited the factory. It was a chance to get acquainted and check

out his new heels. I know the potential they have shown for the

last two years. They were the quickest in the new teams. They are

planning to relocate to Oxfordshire in August to bring the F1 team and

sportscar company under one roof. It is a fact of life that most

people live in that part of the country and we need to attract them

to us which will be much easier to do if we live close to them. You

will remain a manufacturing office for us. This company has been

producing parts for Formula One teams since the 1970s. Suspensions,

seats, all sorts. It is very light. That is the beauty of the material.

Half of their business comes from Formula One. They are hoping the

move will not affect them. We look after other teams and I do not

think it will have an impact on us as we can still continue to do work

for them. So, a new beginning and a year of challenge and change. Time

to accelerate to greater success. And tomorrow night we're looking at

Red Bull. And I've been to interview the team principal,

Christian Horner. It's BBC News School Report Day, the day when

more than 1,000 schools and more than 30,000 students turn their

classrooms into newsrooms - with a little help from journalists at the

BBC. Among the young reporters today, two students from the Thomas

Deacon Academy in Peterborough. With other children from across the

country they have been behind the scenes at the Olympic Park in

London. And they got the chance to interview Lord Coe. This is the

Olympic Park here in east London. The games feel a long way away.

have come today to find out how our area it can benefit from the

Olympics. We are having a tour of the Olympic Park. I enjoyed looking

around this place with its fantastic multi-coloured seats. How

can area is like ours benefit from the Games when we are not close to

the Olympics site? I have spent some time in Peterborough, I talked

a little bit about the engagement with schools but we have also got

an engagement with colleges and local clubs. We have an

organisation called nations and regions, there are nine English

regions and there are also Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. They

have all set themselves strategic objectives around the Games. In

East Anglia I have done a lot of Olympic project work. It is also to

encourage more people, of the back of the Games, when they have been

to London, to go and visit a beautiful places like Ealing and

Cambridge and those big centres which can drive much more interest.

There is a big sports participation programme in what we would call the

East of England. Some of it is driven through local universities

and colleges. There is a lot happening. Her can we help the

game's be more real to us? -- how can we help the Games be more real

to us? Well done to them. And you can view School Reports from across

the East on the BBC website. The stars turned out in London today

for a memorial service to celebrate the life of David Croft. Of course,

he was the man who gave us comedy classics like Dad's Army, Hi-de-Hi,

and Are You Being Served? David, who lived in Suffolk, died last

year at the age of 89. Kevin Burch has been to meet his widow Ann to

reflect on a glittering career. This was actually David's office as

you can probably see from the photographs on the wall. These all

captured the remarkable legacy of one man who is gone but can never

be forgotten. He had just been to see a palm reader who said success

is just around the corner. They were married for 60 years. She had

been a theatrical agent. He started out as a young actor, then as Senna,

but eventually found his niche as a comedy writer, producer and

director. It is usually about the second or third sees that you begin

to realise the public are warming to it. You are Lord muck now,

aren't you? Yeah s! Do you think he was aware of just how much

affection there was from the British public towards him and his

work? Not really until he got very old and started to see the dads

Army appreciation Society. -- P dads Army Appreciation Society.

was a gifted, modest man who said that if he made just a few people

laugh some of the time then he was happy. He said it was very nice to

be recognised, he said he meant in general, he was hoping he would

leave behind something that would continue to make people laugh. That

is how he saw things. He hoped that his show was would live on in some

form of another and his sense of humour or would live longer than

the actual shows. He is buried in the garden you know, I still talk

to them. A man never really dies if people go on talking about him.

Whether it is in the bones of his family or anything else, I think

there is a lot of truth in that. We have been very lucky. He had a

marvellous life and was very successful. People seem to like him

a lot and he was highly respected, what more can people ask for really.

Let's have a look at the weather. Good evening. What a stunning

spring day it was today. This is how warm it got across the region,

between 16 and 18 degrees. Exceptionally mild. Eight Celsius

is average for this time of year. With the clear skies we will get

mist and fog patches forming once more overnight tonight. It will get

fairly chilly. We will have values close to those which will bring us

ground frost. It will be once more at bit of a cloudy and misty start

tomorrow. There will be more cloud around but we should see some

brighter spells and even sunshine into the afternoon. It will still

be very mild. A bit more of a noticeable wind for tomorrow. A

moderate south-westerly 3D. Through the afternoon sunshine will turn to

turn hazy. There is something for everyone, there is some rain on the

way which will come at the weekend. This area of low pressure will form

right over the top of us. There could be a persistent spell of rain

into the weekend and once it has cleared away it will turn colder.

For tomorrow, a little bit more cloud around but there should be

some sunshine and Abbey's. Into the weekend most locations might get

away with a dry start but there will be outbreaks of rain which

could turn persistent into the evening and overnight on Saturday.

By Sunday it should gradually clear through. -- sunshine and a breeze.

By Monday and Tuesday we could be up to 10 or 11 Celsius with sunny